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.

English Cycles Di2 Custom

This is the second Shimano Di2-specific road frame by English Cycles that we’ve featured here, but Rob English hasn’t been resting on his laurels. This…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Stanridge Speed 29er

Not content with creating ultra-slick urban pursuit frames, a bicycle homage to the Vincent Grey Flash and academically correct porteurs, Adam at Stanridge Speed has…

Firefly Bicycles Ti Road

I’ve been waiting a while to feature a Firefly Bicycle on The Spoken, having avidly followed the evolution of the Boston workshop from it’s inception.…

Worksman Cycles

Worksman Cycles are the ultimate trad American velocipede, I’m surprised they haven’t developed the cult of customization as Schwinn or other retro names. They’re the…

Raleigh International

Marie and Ryan from New Jersey’s Folk Engineered recently completed a simultaneous restoration for two brothers, Drew and Fred. Drew bought this Raleigh International in…

Simple EZ

CAD Designer Jimmy Röstlund of Eject BMX just sent through these images of his latest bike, which is a bit of a portfolio piece. It’s…

Winter Bicycles Speed Metal

As the mercury begins it’s slow daily rise in the southern hemisphere, it seems appropriate that I stumbled across the workshop of Eric Estlund and…

Jake Ricker’s Cyclocross

I remember reading about Jake Ricker’s two-week tuition at Koichi Yamaguchi’s Framebuilding School earlier this year on Trackosaurus Rex and thinking that it must have…

Vanilla Bicycles Monson

If you’re a little jaded after watching the world’s most advanced carbon fiber race machines careen over the highest mountains in France for the last…

Pereira Cycles Cyclocross

Whenever I need reassurance of the art of the bicycle, there’s a couple of frame builders I can rely on to provide the ultimate in…

Milholland Cycles

Greg Morris loves lugs. It’s a fact that’s evident on each Milholland frame he assembles, even those destined for the mountain. His previous experience as…

AUTUM Epitaph

US-based design firm AUTUM created a stir on The Spoken with their Minion bicycle, the limited run of which rapidly sold out. Their exclusive range…