There is beauty in simplicity, and the titanium-tubed County Line all-road bike from Moots designer Nate Bradley hits the sweet spot with HBN readers.

If they're good enough for F1 cars, flat-plate pivotless suspension arms should be okay for cycling. Ti-Cycles, as ever looking to incorporate clever thinking into its designs, approached the esteemed engineer John Castellano to adapt his Flat-Plate chainstay for 3" tyres.

A lightweight full-suspension titanium mountain bike caught Mark Hallinger's eye in the Sea Otter Expo.

Wittson is a father-and-son company from the Baltic nation of Lithuania that specializes in frames and forks built from titanium.

BIXXIS is the new brand of handbuilt bicycles from Italian master Doriano De Rosa

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.

Ti Cycles is a Portland, Oregon institution, having produced frames from titanium and steel for 26 years now.

Doriano De Rosa started building frames in 1975 as a teenager under his father's severe gaze. Thirty-five years later, with a critical eye and attention to detail, he's the craftsman in charge as De Rosa's head titanium and steel framebuilder.