NAHBS Roadbikereview Videos and Photos and Awards.

Every year, there is a pilgrimage of whatever of the country’s prizewinning cycle builders to a municipality designated by NAHBS to showcase the prizewinning assistance prefabricated bikes. This year, the municipality was Sacramento and it attracted a ton of builders from around the country and around the world.  The halls were jam-packed apiece period with cycling enthusiasts hot to wager the what the prizewinning builders had to offer.

The interesting abstract most the Handmade cycle exhibit is it not exclusive showcases traditional organisation and craftsmanship but it also exhibits whatever leading bounds design. Builders are always hunting for the prizewinning solutions to many of cycling’s needs and this exhibit not exclusive shows where cycling came from but also where it is headed.

Check the links beneath to analyse our coverage of whatever of the prizewinning builders at the show. And wager our impressions beneath of what the biggest trends are in this year’s show.

2012 NAHBS Featured Builders Alchemy Bicycle Co. •Carbon Cyclocross Bike •KVA Steel Road Bike Alliance Bicycles •Titanium 29er •All Road Bike Bamboosero •Bamboosero â€" Enabling a Nation Black Cat Bicycles •Singlespeed 29er •Carbon Fiber and Lugged Steel Road Bike Black Sheep Bikes •Ti Fat Bike “Two Face” Boo Bicycles •Bamboo Singlespeed 29er Race Bike •Di2 Bamboo Road Bike Caletti Cycles •Adventure Road Bike Calfee Design •Carbon Tandem 29er Mountain Bike Dean Ti •Ti Marathon Softail Racer with Belt Drive •Ti ExoGrid Road Bike Don Walker Cycles •Singlespeed English Cycles •18.5 lb Custom SS 29er •Project Right Festka Bicycles •Racing Team Bike •Royal Flush Form Cycles •Fatso” Ti Full Suspension Fat Bike •Stainless Steel Full Suspension 29er Funk Cycles •La Ruta Ti 29er Full Suspension Racer Guru Cycles •Photon Inglis Cycles •Steel 29er •Retrotec Steel Ultegra Di2 Road Bike Mosaic Cycles •Colorado Ti 29er •Ti Road Bike Moth Attack •Track Bike Panda Bicycles •Lugged Bamboo Road Bike Pereira Cycles •JBR 29er Steel Pitz Cycles •Cyclocross Bike Priority Cycles •Hand Built Carbon Fiber DH Racer Rex Cycles •Fillet Brazed Steel 29er Ritchey Design •Tom Ritchey Breakaway Tandem •Ritchey Road Logic •Tom Ritchey Classic 40th Anniversary Frame Ritte •Stainless Steel Road Bike Speedhound Bikes •Only One Steve Potts •Buying & Building the 2012 Award Winning Ti Bike SyCip Bicycles •Unleaded Steel Hardtail (not a 29er) •Jeremy SyCip’s Cyclocross Bike Ti Cycles •Rando •Ultralight Compact Road Bike True Fabrications •Road Bike Vendetta Cycles •Best Finish of the Show Track Bike •Lugged Commuter Bike YiPsan Cycles •Cafe Racer •S and S Coupled Randonneur Bike

Trends:

NAHBS is a enthusiastic indicator of where the cycle business is going. For example, a few years past most of the builders were showing 29er and commuter bikes patch they were still an crotchet with bounteous manufacturers. But now, that is understandably the ontogeny portion of the cycle industry.  This year, we did wager whatever common themes that we see will have a gleaming forthcoming in cycling:

1) Big Tire Road Bikes – Many manufacturers brought their prizewinning cycle to our booth and at small six of them brought agency bikes with bounteous tires. Some called it an Adventure Road Bike or Dirt Road Bike  but the construct was a agency cycle that crapper go on trails or broken pavement.  It is kindred to a cyclocross cycle but a cross cycle typically has unshapely tires, broad lowermost bracket, steep nous seek and bad brakes.  These Fat Tired Road Bikes ingest daylong accomplish calliper brake to attain shack for tires up to 34c or beyond.  Some of them ingest round brake as well.   The geometry is kindred to a agency cycle so it crapper appendage and move same a the prizewinning agency bikes.  They key difference really is the bounteous tires earmark the traveller to explore  and ready feat as the beatific paseo ends.  The traveller crapper lick through trails and parks and ready feat on daylong period rides or multi-day excursion s.

Technologies that have prefabricated this possible are: round brake or daylong accomplish calliper brake and broad calibre bounteous agency tires.

2) Fat Bikes – Fat bikes are mountain bikes with tires almost as bounteous as a motorcycle’s. These bikes move on these bounteous tires commonly at 10-12 psi and they earmark the traveller to appendage almost any terrain.  Initially favourite for the snow and beach areas,  the range of fruitful bikes as accumulated  to any terrain available.  When a normal mountain cycle tire is obstructed by terrain that is soft and ungroomed, a fruitful cycle is able to move through and roll over with ease. And despite hunting slow and arduous to maneuver, fruitful bikes are commonly able to ready up with normal mountain bikes in cross-country terrain. Even without any suspension, fruitful substance a easy mate in rough terrain because of the Brobdingnagian tires with baritone pressure. Most fruitful bikes correct today are hardtails but NAHBS showed us face support bikes and rear support bikes as well.

3) Bamboo and Stainless Steel Bikes – These newborn materials were rattling common at the show.  Bamboo is utilised because it is sustainable, attractive and it delivers a supple mate quality.  Bamboo vegetation absorbs a lot of the damper and ambiance from the agency or the dawdle so the traveller benefits from a smoother ride. With modern vegetation selection and manufacturing, builders are able to ready the coefficient downbound and physique broad action in these frames.  Stainless poise was common likewise as builders dubbed it the ‘cheaper titanium’.  It is durable, rust proof, reddened same metal but it is most $500 less for a same frame. It has an attractive finish likewise that crapper be serviceable easily to countenance same newborn modify after individual years of riding.

Awards:

Every year, NAHBS gives discover awards to the prizewinning bikes of the show. 2012 showcased an selection of winners.

BEST ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS FRAME Paketa Magnesium Bikes BEST CARBON FIBER FRAME Alchemy Bicycle Company BEST CITY BIKE Ira Ryan Cycles BEST CITY BIKE Muse Cycles BEST CITY BIKE Shamrock Cycles BEST CYCLOCROSS BIKE 611 Bicycle Co. BEST CYCLOCROSS BIKE Moots BEST EXPERIMENTAL BIKE Black Sheep Fab. BEST EXPERIMENTAL BIKE Ti Cycles Fabrication BEST FILLET CONSTRUCTION Bishop Bikes BEST FINISH Vendetta Cycles BEST LUGGED CONSTRUCTION Bishop Bikes BEST MOUNTAIN BIKE Naked Bicycles BEST MOUNTAIN BIKE Pereira Cycles BEST MOUNTAIN BIKE Retrotec-Inglis Cycles BEST ROAD BIKE Demon Frameworks BEST ROAD BIKE Rex Cycles BEST STEEL FRAME Bishop Bikes BEST STEEL FRAME Ellis Cycles Inc. BEST TANDEM BIKE Kent Eriksen Cycles BEST TIG CONSTRUCTION Black Sheep Fab. BEST TITANIUM FRAME Kent Eriksen Cycles BEST TITANIUM FRAME Steve Potts Bicycles BEST TRACK BIKE Rebolledo Cycles PEOPLES’ CHOICE University of the Fraser Valley PRESIDENT’S CHOICE Cherubim by Shin-Ichi Konno ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Stinner Frameworks BEST OF SHOW Cherubim by Shin-Ichi Konno

 

 

Shaver Price