Year Four for the Calgary Handmade Bike Show, November 16, sees a gathering of custom builders from Alberta to the British Columbia coastline at a bikes'n brews event that showcases the fine crafting, innovation and artistry that has long marked this part of the world as a well of frame building talent.

Paul Brodie's replica of the Whippet: a working full-suspension bike first made in 1885.

A beautifully finished ti road frame by Sam Whittingham of Naked is at the heart of a classic-styled 15lb road rocket

This is a candid, insider view to the development of a new frame design. Sam Whittingham, designer and builder at Naked, wanted to experiment with what's extreme for a well-rounded trail bike. This is his first prototype in that line.

Naked Bicycles was winning awards just about every time they showed up at NAHBS. Then they quietly disappeared from the show scene, poking their heads up briefly at the low-key Vancouver show in 2018. We asked Sam Whittingham about his promo strategy and threw in a couple about framebuilding philosophy.

Roman, from the new British Columbia company BearCraft, tells us about the Pilsner model

Toronto native Vince Lupo shows us his time trial specialty bike from the early 1980s that carries the legacy of a legend of Canadian cycling.

A show in a show, in a show: that's the artisan section of the Vancouver Bike Show, and it's a small handful of bicycle makers at that. Small maybe, but cycling is a big thing in BC, and their framebuilders are world famous with good reason.