John Caletti has been building frames since 2004. He now runs Caletti Cycles in Santa Cruz, California, which is housed in a certified “Green Building”.
Caletti Cycles offers complete bikes, handcrafted from titanium or steel, and fitted out with the customer’s choice of parts and finish.
The range includes both road and gravel bikes, plus the popular Scrambler — a flat-bar bike with a reduced head angle, positioned somewhere between the gravel and commuter bike genres.
Caletti are also known for their eye-popping finishes, inspired by retro skate and moto design.
Most cyclists, like Homer Simpson, are partial to the sugary joys of a donut and if you know of one that isn’t, perhaps you should point them towards the Caletti Cycles Donut Box Pink Scrambler and see if that doesn’t whet their appetite.
As the dust from NAHBS 2019 finally settles and everyone starts coming back to earth, we can begin to look at some of the more spectacular show bikes in detail. Caletti Cycles and artist Jeremiah Kille went all out on this metallic canvas.
Every once in a while, you have to go back to move forward, as was the case with Covey’s single-speed Caletti MTB and its retro…
Santa Cruz’s Caletti Cycles have eight standard models in their lineup, available in a plethora of custom options. Their latest titanium Adventure Road frame was…
The Santa Cruz workshop of Caletti Cycles has just announced their Domestique project: a stock adventure road model called the Domestique. This is the first…
A while ago, Caletti Cycles posted a stop-motion clip on their Instagram feed that portrays the collaborative effort behind their completed bikes. This tall all-roader…
A long time ago, at a Handmade Bicycle Show far, far away… Although it wasn’t all that long ago, but Salt Lake City was far…
The second Grinduro, accoladed as the “Event of the Year” by the Design and Innovation Awards committee, kicked off this weekend in Quincy, California. Santa…
Artist Jeremiah Kille is a Santa Cruz local, just like his neighbour, framebuilder John Caletti. Both share a deep respect for the ocean, a worldview…
It’s always interesting to find out about the bikes that the custom frame builders make for themselves. They have all walked different paths to this…
One of the endearing qualities about a frame made by John Caletti is the fact that it was made by John Caletti. John makes every…
It’s obvious John Caletti loves making bikes. He’s now been in the business for eleven years, and some of his recent creations have had a…
If you’re a cinema buff, you might be starting to recognize some visual references in the theme of the latest bike from John Caletti: the…
Artists are brave people. Not all of us has the guts to display on white walls what goes on inside our imaginations. It’s an interesting…
Leaning up against my living room wall, waiting for a moment when I’m not riding, is an old Santa Cruz skateboard: Steve Alba’s Voodoo deck,…
