Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Paul Brodie eBee

We’ve waited all week for this: the final photos of Paul Brodie’s completed eBee electric bicycle. By the time you read this, it will have…

A-Train Cycles NAHBS 29er

For NAHBS newbies — that is, first-time builders — there’s a special table. It’s called the New Builder’s Table and entrants can only display one…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Fast Boy Cycles UTA

No sooner had Exra Caldwell finished his newest build than he boarded plane for Rome, departing on a well-deserved European vacation. The UTA stands for…

Paul Brodie eBee Part 4

This is the last installment in Paul Brodie’s walk-through as he builds the eBee, an electric bicycle that utilizes all of Paul’s framebuilding and motorcycle…

Renovo Badash 29er

My grandfather had a great passion for woodwork and the time I spent in his workshop, my nostrils full of the scent of wood shavings…

Paul Brodie eBee Part 3

Denver is, as we speak, rapidly filling up with custom frame builders, bloggers, industry types and beautiful bike lovers, drawn together by the 2013 North…

Enigma Edge ‘Everest’

Britons maintain a great pride in their domestic industry, despite a significant chunk of it migrating off shore — a plight experienced by many first…

Paul Brodie eBee Part 2

Here’s the second installment in Paul Brodie’s process diary of building the eBee, what could very well be the best designed electric bicycle ever assembled.…

Paul Brodie eBee Part 1

For the 2012 North American Handmade Bicycle Show, Paul Brodie astounded us by recreating, piece by piece, an 1888 Whippet full-suspension bicycle. He took us…

Firefly Bicycles 650B Randonneur

The atmosphere in the new Fireflys Bicycles workshop must be electric. Their output is prolific, yet they still manage to produce frames that are, in…