MADE 24 PDX, PART ONE

Scarab
Scarab's eye-catching water-color paintings on the bikes each had a theme name, as well as the bike model name. The company is based on the outskirts of Medellin in Colombia and has been in business since around the start of 2019.

Rodriguez & Erickson

This 'Quad 8-Ball Tandem' made by the storied Seattle company, Rodriguez-Erickson, has one of the best feel-good stories we've ever seen at a bike show. Just read the note...

Ahearne
Portland frame builder Joseph Ahearne has a liking for nostalgic designs, and beauties like this one are always in demand... the hip flasks too!

Efficient Velo Tools
The original Right Arm Clamp repair stand, circa 1999, and the axioms that inspired it. According to EVT, more than 1,000 EZ-Lift Base Repair Stands are in circulation now. That bike on the stand? We reckon it pre-dates the Right Arm Clamp by around 10 years, and we're going to have to ask about that saddle.

Black Magic Paint
The Black Magic Paint booth is always a place to stop, feast your eyes, and wonder how the heck they did that.

Prandus Barbaquas Bike
Oakland company Prandus brought a bicycle tailgate party. If you were there at the right time, they were serving hot dogs from the Barbaquas Bike. And if you're wondering who those people wearing balaclavas were in the main hall...

All Ti Metals
Corinna and David Castellanos of All Ti Metals were there to learn more about tube sizes and shapes they might offer going forward. Seven, Bitch'n, and Naked are among the companies already using ATM tubes.

Partington Wheels
Maker of some of the lightest, fastest bike wheels anywhere, the Australian company Partington is rapidly gaining an international following. Having Cadel Evans as a brand ambassador doesn't hurt. If you have to ask how much though, you probably can't afford a set.

Swift Industries
Seattle bags and accessories manufacturer Swift Industries is going from strength to strength, and you never know, but reading that sign there's a chance one of those plastic water bottles you put into the recycling bin could be ... maybe?

Bike Friday
Commute-inna-suit. Nice! But we may have to have to start calling them e-Bike Friday.

Breadwinner
Breadwinner Bikes are alive and well and living in Portland (You may have to be au fait with late 1960s Off-Broadway musicals to get that reference, sorry.) And here is a revue of just part of the line-up being produced in 2024 by the accomplished builder Tony Pereira.

Appleman
Matt Appleman's multiple crankset sizing and accessory options are as popular for the range of colors he offers, almost as much as his revolutionary approach to different crank arm lengths.

Officina Battaglin
Giovanni Battaglin, one of Italy's great cycling champions in the 1980s, with one of the early bikes he made in a post-racing career as a frame designer that he has pursued to the current day. His 'cromovelato' finish is to die for.

Bahl
Bahl was there as a vehicle to display the TRP-Classified Vistar Powershift hub shifting system. This new SoCal brand fills a big geographic hole for people in the region of Kern County looking for a local frame builder, and offers neat-looking bikes with custom geometry in steel or titanium. HBG will publish more information about Bahl soon.

Sim Works
Japanese manufacturer Sim Works was created to help reinvigorate the culture of Japanese bicycle manufacturing and consumer choices in the Japanese cycling scene. Probably you need to go there and see what most people are riding to fully understand this. We didn't talk with SimWorks much at the show, but we will. It seems like a great project.

Mosaic
The Mosaic GT-2X with the full JPAKS custom bags suite: Two Colorado manufacturers representing in fine style.

Wolfhound
We didn't get to speak with the folks at Wolfhound, but we sure liked their designs. We saw some shades of the great Grant Petersen in some of those lines.

Apogee
Apogee started making bikes in 2023, so we can't say much about them yet, but the Wolfhound collaboration made for a great-looking end product, and we are curious to know more about the suspension control module located in the middle of the bike. More to come soon.

DeSalvo
Mike DeSalvo was one of the Original Six, a group of frame builders who attended NAHBS every year from 2005 to '09, and then beyond. A long-time instructor at the United Bicycle Institute, Mike is a pillar of the modern frame building movement. It was a kick to see his ti step-thru framed bike. You don't see a lot of those these days.

Sycip
Jeremy Sycip has been making a lot of ebikes in recent years, but what also caught our eye in his booth was this 26" wheel BMX bike he made is based on a frame he made in the late 1990s. It has a new fork and stem, and makes a great bike for tooling around town. We liked his bike-packing coffee makers too. The one with legs is collapsible.

Tomii
This eye-catcher by Tomii is a collaboration with SimWorks, who provided parts and fitted a prototype tire they're soon to release. We have a focus article lined up about Tomii, a frame builder with a distinctive style and approach to bike design that we hope we'll be hearing a lot more about in the years to come.

That wraps it up for this summary. There are still a few more companies to add in a Part Three summary, coming soon. Also, we will post several focus articles and videos on the HBG YouTube channel, Bike Artisans.

MADE 24 PDX, PART ONE