Handbuilt Bicycle News

Bicycles

September 2025

Featured Bike: Calfee Manta Pro

Calfee Design has been around since 1988, and they are pioneers in the design of carbon frames. The company has continued to bring new designs to the market offering more and better choices. The latest is rear suspension for a road bike.

NAHBS

September 2025

People

September 2025

The real Richard Sachs

The insider's insider, most know Richard Sachs as a classic frame builder and prolific blogger with a pithy contrarian perspective.

Bicycles

September 2025

Appleman Bicycles: The 20lb fat bike

The 18lb fat bike is a distinct reality, and Matt Appleman's project bike for the HED fat bike wheels is ready to ride at just over 20lbs, without going all weight weenie on it.

Bicycles

September 2025

Le Petit Graveleur: Big on Function and Style

You could say that Le Petit Graveleur, a purpose-built all-road bicycle for the continent of Africa, is the two-wheeled, human-powered version of the Land Rover. Strong and built to take abuse, it's also a very precise machine.

NAHBS

September 2025

King Cage: Keeping Your Bottle

Ron Andrews of King Cage will be busy in his booth at the 2016 Sacramento North American Handmade Bicycle Show, bending tiny tubes into high-performance water bottle cages as he has done at four previous editions of the show.

Tyres

September 2025

Frame Builders

September 2025

Ordering a frame: Strong logic

Ordering a custom bicycle frame might sound intimidating, but frame builder Carl Strong says it’s actually quite fun and can help customers discover new things about themselves as cyclists.