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.

Hunter Cycles 29er

Nowadays, ‘adventure biking’ are two words used to label anything from an afternoon out back to a race around the world. But for those who…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Kinfolk x Ronrico Rum

There’s plenty of comparisons made between custom bicycles and hand-crafted liquors such as wines and whiskeys. The Kinfolk Bicycle Company recently received an alternative assignment:…

Zodiac Engineering Terrible One

This is the latest iteration of Ken Spaulding’s Terrible One. If you happened to invest in the 2011 The Spoken Calendar, you’ll remember its first…

Pereira Cycles Jeff Bates Racer

Each new frame by Tony Pereira is greatly anticipated by lovers of fine bicycles, and this noble 29er was no exception. It wowed the judges…

Scout Regalia Bicycle

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Stanridge Speed ‘The Goblin’

Adam Eldridge of Stanridge Speed wears many masks these days, refusing to be categorized as a particular style of custom frame builder. 2012 has already…

DeLorean Bicycle Company

For a reason that’s intrinsically bound up within the annals of cinematic science fiction, the DeLorean DMC-12 refuses to roll over and die, instead giving…

Firefly Ti MTB

Boston, Massachusetts, is presently alight with the production of some of the finest titanium and stainless steel frames in the US. Jamie, Kevin and Tyler…

Signal Cycles Raty Ning

There’s no flies on Nate Meschke and Matt Cardinal, the two-man team that make up Portland’s Signal Cycles. Since the North American Handmade Bicycle Show…

Yeti ARC-X

Fans of Yeti Cycles are as one-eyed as they come, getting as excited about a 1971 Chrysler auto color called Desert Turquoise as Bianchi fans…

Hampsten Cycles Gran Paradiso

The 2012 Giro d’Italia will be the 95th edition of the Italian Grand Tour and it’s about this time of year that Andy Hampsten reminisces…

Cory’s Fast Boy Cycles

To my chagrin, I’ve never visited New York City, although I greatly look forward to getting over there for a ride. One of the first…

Stanridge Speed ‘Molloy’

Nonetheless Garments is a clothier specializing in stylish menswear for urban cyclists that look as considered and well-tailored on the bike as off it. Their…