The NAHBS Awards are considered by many to have the most rigorous and methodical judging standards of any cycling event except possibly the Concours de Machines. This is a full presentation of the 2018 NAHBS Awards winners.
The 2018 North American Handmade Bicycle Show kicked off Friday, February 16th in Hartford, Connecticut, the show's first-ever visit to New England. Matt Butterman offers his take at first blush.
Veteran Australian builder Darrell McCulloch of Llewellyn Custom Bicycles gives his views on changes in the ways people learn to build bikes, in the finished product, and to the ways customers find the framebuilders.
Within minutes of looking around the exhibitor stands at Bespoked, Anna Schwinn started remarking on the differences she saw between the work on display there and what she’d seen at NAHBS less than a month prior.  We asked Anna to write down her thoughts.
Brad Bingham at Kent Eriksen Cycles won the Best TIG Welding award at NAHBS for the third year in a row. He masters his craft in the workshop while also competing successfully on the pro mountain bike circuit.
Black Cat Bicycles of Aptos, California, won the coveted Best in Show award at NAHBS 2016. Jury members gave high praise to all the frame builders, saying it is getting more and more difficult to pick the winners.