Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Bikes sold by American brands are often made in China and Taiwan these days, even if they have been designed in the USA. That includes companies like Trek, Specialized
and Cannondale, and we’ve also said goodbye to companies like Klein and Guerrilla Gravity.

But several brands are keeping the dream of domestic bike production alive, with road, gravel, and mountain bikes on offer. Allied Cycle Works bikes are built in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Moots Cycles, known for their titanium frames, has been handcrafting frames in Steamboat Springs, Colorado for nearly four decades.

Speedvagen is still operating out of Portland, Oregon, Lynskey is building titanium bikes in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Mosaic Cycles handcrafts its machines in Boulder, Colorado.

Brands such as these may be in a minority, but they’re Made In The USA with a focus on quality and style rather than price.

Firefly Bicycles All-road Tourer

A custom frame is a very significant and enjoyable investment, but not one that should be entered into lightly. Every detail must be confirmed, from…

Dain’s Black Cat

Todd Ingermanson of California’s Black Cat Bicycles describes himself as a one-man dance party, and with Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats playing in the background,…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

English Cycles Giles’ V3

The 2nd Annual Tour of Aufderheide was held last weekend in Westfir, Oregon. It was intended to be an adventurous ride through the magnificent West…

The Reach For The Dream Project

This just in from Manual For Speed: Manual For Speed in collaboration with Argonaut Cycles and Speedvagen present Reach For The Dream. A guide to…

Gear: Chrome Forged Rubber

‘The Best City Sneaker In The World’ is a big claim but I wouldn’t put it past Chrome Industries to make it. With a reputation…

Soulcraft Royale

Anyone who has even picked up a copy of Matthew B. Crawford’s tome, Shop Class as Soulcraft, can’t deny the attraction of the lessons taught…

Review: Sparse Lights

As winter descended here in Australia I found myself going through my seemingly-annual ritual of checking out the latest crop of bike lights available on…

Calfee Manta

Why, after touting the comfortable qualities of his beautiful bamboo bikes, Craig Calfee decided to go and create a high calibre soft tail road bike,…

Godspeed, Ezra Caldwell

Whenever this website was fortunate enough to feature a bike by Ezra Caldwell of Fast Boy Cycles, I used to wax lyrical about how it…

Chapman Cycles Mixte

The same day that Sir Bradley Wiggins won the 2014 Amgen Tour of California, this mixte by Brian Chapman won an equally significant event: it…

Mark Nobilette Townie

The tradition of American frame builders is long and twisted, like the boughs of an old oak tree. There are many branches, some thicker and…

Caletti Cycles All-Road

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,…

Gevenalle Components

It’s just breaking into cyclocross season in the southern hemisphere, which is a great time for dialling in your rig. And it’s the off season…

House Industries for Rapha: TOC Caps

In 2013, House Industries, the legendary design studio and type foundry, undertook the rebranding of Richard Sachs’ famous cyclocross team. The resulting frame graphics and…