Until today, if you wanted a carbon DT Swiss mountain bike rim, you could only get it in a complete wheelset built by DT themselves. But after launching new lightweight carbon XC, all-mountain, and ...
A nationally-known custom bicycle frame builder from West Branch died Monday while riding RAGBRAI. Tom Teesdale, 63, had a heart attack while riding between Terril and Graettinger in northwest Iowa, ...
Making it as a custom bike builder is not easy. Scaling up to reach demands and expectations is one of the biggest challenges. Should they stay solo and build bikes one-at-a-time while your wait-list ...
I love a good build that fights stereotypical norms – and Žiga Petek’s work on this R65 is a key example of just that. According to coverage from BikeEXIF, hopping from a lightweight touring machine ...
Like many people who take up bicycle building, Tony Pereira and Ira Ryan are avid cyclists who began experimenting in their home garages, welding together bike frames. Several years after founding ...
Modifying motorcycles to make more speed by reducing weight is a tradition stretching back to before WWII. These "bob jobs" or "bobbers" strip anything not necessary, leaving a lighter and nimbler ...