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.

RUPHUS Woodsman

You’ve got to give kudos to anyone that tries to break the bicycle out of its traditional double-triangle diamond frame design. It may be considered…

Firefly Bicycles Tourer

Boston’s art scene has been a considerable influence upon the Firefly Bicycles crew. They made a special point of adjoining an art gallery space to…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Rock Lobster Black Friday

One of the bikes up for grabs in Easton Cycling’s Dream Bike Charity Raffle was an aluminum race bike built by Santa Cruz local Paul…

Bishop Bikes Pista

Motor racing sponsorship has played a major role in the marketing plan of Martini & Rossi, an Italian alcohol company that is perhaps most famous…

1988 GT Pro Freestyle Tour

By the mid-70s, bicycle motocross had grown from a bunch of neighborhood kids racing their Schwinn Sting-Rays around dirt tracks in empty southern Californian lots…

Hufnagel Porteur

Google Maps couldn’t actually calculate the exact distance from Whistler, B.C. to the region of Patagonia, South America. Let’s just call it a long way.…

Bridgestone XO-2

Before founding Rivendell Bicycle Works in 1994, Grant Petersen was marketing director for Bridgestone Cycle (USA). During his 10-year tenure, he created some highly innovative…

Tomii Cycles 650B MTB

A lugged steel frame is a thing of immeasurable beauty, but a frame that’s well-fillet brazed can be breathtaking. It’s almost a shame to cover…

Levi’s® Commuter Collection

For most of us, the majority of our riding consists of commuting to work or mates’ houses. Or the pub. And while there’s an abundance…

Black Cat Bicycles Dream Bike

In August 2013, Easton inaugurated their Handmade Dream Bike Charity Raffle — five builders who donated one of their bikes to be sold at auction…

Hunter Cycles Cyclocross

Rie Sawada from Tokyo’s Sim Works is just about to complete a 5,000km journey on her custom ‘coffee bike’, specially built for her by Santa…

An Iron Horse Sunday from Venezuela

Before filing for bankruptcy in 2009, Iron Horse was a noble steed, producing some innovative mountain bike frames that were victoriously raced in several World…

K. Bedford Customs

The waters of upstate New York’s Saratoga Springs must have a high creative content for custom frame builders: Ben Serotta’s band of brazers continue to…

A-train Cycles Gravel Grinder

Alex Cook of A-train Cycles likes tools as much as he likes bikes. The Minneapolis builder recently invested in a Swiss made Interapid test indicator,…

Horse Cycles Tourer

Nate Mumford is a photographer based in New York, which is also home to Thomas Callahan and the Horse Cycles stable. Nate recently took some…