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.

Red River Racing TiSSCX

It’s exciting to watch the current explosion of cyclocross, it’s nearly getting as many bums on saddles as the ‘fixed gear’ phenomenon did a few…

Shu-Sin Randonneur

The United Bicycle Institute is located in Ashland and Portland, Oregon, which goes a long way in explaining the high concentration of fine handmade bicycle…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

English Cycles Naked TT

A bicycle frame doesn’t naturally lend itself as a generous slab of advertising real estate, even those made from carbon composites. So when they’re surrounded…

Canfield Bros Nimble 9

The brothers behind Canfield Bros Suspension, Lance and Chris, create some seriously innovative downhill and 29er frames. But the graphics belie their capabilities, leaning toward…

Bishop Bikes Chris’s Own

This isn’t Chris Bishop‘s latest build at all, but I only stumbled across it recently and was awed by its striking features. Chris managed to…

Tonic Fabrication Tushar Crusher

Burke Swindlehurst is a lifelong Utahan and professional racer who, after competing all over the world, still prefers riding around his local Tushar Mountains. So…

Yeti Pro FRO

There are those among us who would argue that the early 90s were the Golden Age of the mountain bike, regardless of a fixation with…

Rosko Cycles Cyclocross

The need to pull together as a community is strong within New York City, at its heart is the pride of living in one of…

Fast Boy Cycles Burlington Burner

There’s few pleasures in life more honest than a good bike ride. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons for the resurgence of interest in cycling…

CWMD Glossy Black Track

The last we heard of Alan Sikirič, he’d completed Koichi Yamaguchi’s Framebuilding School, his class project bearing the master’s unmistakeable influence. Alan’s back with a…

Soma Prestige

The San Francisco-based Soma Fabrications is a benefactor of The Spoken, for which we are very grateful. The inspiration for their brand is the Bay…

Winter Bicycles 1918

The utilitarian purpose of military bicycles is both something to be admired and feared, like war horses. The latest machine to emerge from the workshop…

Signal Cycles Road / Rain Bike

Every cyclist is different and, after many miles, will develop a good idea of their dream machine. Portland’s Signal Cycles created this fendered road bike…