NABHS 2019 Photos

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Finally posting the pics I snapped with my Nikon on Friday. Over 50 pics!

NAHBS 2019

NAHBS 2019

We will be in Sacramento next month and will post a ton of pics. Stay tuned!

333fab NAHBS 2016

333fab NAHBS 2016

Maxwell Kullaway built hundreds of frames for Seven before starting 333fab in 2007. His shop is just a few blocks from my office. I really need to drop by one of these days. Anyway, he brought some cool stuff to the show, check out more pics after the jump!

Kent Eriksen NAHBS 2016

Kent Erikson NAHBS 2016

Kent Eriksen won best TIG weld and best gravel grinder at NAHBSthis year. Not bad! I’m getting ready to order one of those cool ti seatposts with a custom setback. More pics after the jump!

Moots NAHBS 2016

Moots showed off their gorgeous 35th anniversary Vamoots RSL at NAHBS. They also had a cool new Vamoots Disc RSL featuring 3D printed dropouts with a flat mount disc brake standard with 142×12 thru axles. More pics after the jump!

Calfee Design NAHBS 2016

Calfee had their bikes spread around the show. I already showed you the one they built for Lemond back in 1991. See the rest after the jump!

Thrive Cycles NAHBS 2016

Here’s another nice one from the New Builder Aisle at NAHBS by Thrive Cycles. Fillet brazed goodness from Savannah, Missouri.

Montenegro Manufacturing NAHBS 2016

While going back through my pics from the show, I was trying to figure out who this was cause the logo on the downtube is not very clear. Luckily Bike Rumor published this excellent interview with Hernan Montenegro today so the mystery was solved. Hernan does these carbon frames in Los Angeles and you can […]

Richard Sachs on New Framebuilders at NAHBS

I just read this opinion by Richard Sachs in Handbuilt Bicycle News twice and I’m still not sure what his point is. Toward the end he seems to conclude: “My observation is that the average person wants a fast(er) track to the workbench, one that bypasses a true learning and mentored experience.” This may be true. Seems […]