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.

Tomii Cycles Chris’ Road

We all love our lugged steel-framed bikes. But there’s nothing that can compare with a buttery-smooth, fillet brazed frame. Chris’ Road is the latest build…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Caletti Cycles Road

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Warp Drive Engin

One of the great joys of writing The Spoken is learning of the ingenuity and skill possessed by the metalworkers, fabricators and frame builders who…

Kinoko Cycles Indy Fab

Our old friends Tokyo Fixed, London’s premier local bike shop, recently moved into a new space and changed their name to Kinoko Cycles, but they…

Schwinn Prologue

Some of my favorite bikes on The Spoken are those born straight from the heart: the realization of a passion or a dream, inspired by…

Lundbeck Cycles Number 4

Long-time readers of The Spoken have had the opportunity to watch the progress of some artisan frame builders over the last three years the site…

Cielo Cross Classic

Chris King’s Cielo Cross Classic frame was designed to do one thing well, and that’s be good at lots of things. You could ride a…

Speedvagen Neon Covert

Tell me, apart from a Hetchins, isn’t this the most curvaceous rear end you’ve ever seen on a handmade bicycle? The Speedvagen, by Oregon’s Vanilla…

Zukas Cycles Cyclocross

Cycling Australia’s 2013 National Cyclocross Series is drawing to a close, with Races 1 and 2 being held in Adelaide over June. Melbourne photographer Andy…

Stanridge Speed XCr Road

We haven’t heard much from Adam Eldridge of Stanridge Speed lately. That is, if you don’t count his Instagram updates, giving us an invaluable insight…

Division 1 Cinelli Vigorelli

John ‘Prolly’ Watson’s reference to the pink-themed Cinelli Vigorelli by Austin’s Division 1 bicycle shop as “a racing machine found in F1 or Nascar” was…

Zanconato Road

2013 is quite a milestone year. We’re currently enjoying the 100th edition of the Tour de France, while one of it’s most exceptional contributors, Campagnolo,…

Frank Wadelton Road

Let’s see if we can compile a list of bike brands that Frank The Welder has worked for and contributed to their good reputation. Here’s…

English Cycles Folding Road Concept

Ex-Talking Heads front man, David Byrne, is an ardent advocate of the folding bike as a means of truly experiencing the world through which one…