Hot on the heels of their move to offer complete bikes, Guru just sent over these renderings of their new patent-pending frame stops for internal routing.

The design allows for either mechanical or electronic drivetrains, swapping in cable stops or wire plugs depending on what you’re running. The real beauty of the design is that you can easily upgrade/swap down the road without worrying if your frame is compatible. No doubt it’ll be on their frames (it was shown on their Photon HL at NAHBS, though they didn’t make a big deal about it there), and we’re waiting to hear back if they’ll offer it aftermarket or for other OEM customers. Update as we get it.

Even for those of us who aren’t beer drinkers, the links between bike and beer cultures are awfully hard to deny.  For one reason or another, it seems like bike folks are often into their brews- and vice versa.  Substantial crossover aside, if there’s ever any doubt about the similarities between the two camps just substitute “tire compound” or  “head angle” for “malt” or “IBUs” when that dude in the microbrew hoodie gets rolling. (Yes, that’s exactly what us bike geeks sound like.)

A side project of the bike-loving guys at Oskar Blues Brewery, REEB Cycles is a collaboration with fellow Coloradan Generic Cycles (also known as Chris Sulfrian).  Designed for the steep ups and downs along the Front Range, the REEB is hand built in Colorado out of True Temper OX Platinum steel tubing (a Ti version is also available).  With its Gates belt drive and decidedly trail-oriented geometry, the REEB is a unique bike- and a whole lot of fun.

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Chris King’s Cielo just teased this partial shot of a new rigid mountain bike fork they’re building in house.

Not too much to say other than the obvious: It’ll be thru-axle ready when it comes available. Legs look pretty straight, and the dropouts are pretty thick with what appears to be a Fox axle/lever. Should go nicely on a few of those new bikes they showed at NAHBS!

True Fabrications hails from Austin, TX, and has been building custom steel bikes since 2005. They started out just building 29er frames for themselves, but now offer road, cyclocross, mountain and commuter bikes. They also make stems.

The disc brake road bike shown here is for a customer in Dublin. It has all internal cable routing, which is done with super clean execution. The paint ain’t too shabby either!

Click through for closeups and their other booth bikes…

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Ground Up Designs’ Eric Baar brought his brushes and was pinstriping and decorating his bikes at the show. The sparkly racer above caught our eye for the garage-mechanic World of Outlaws motif, but the details made us stay.

The frame uses a reversed sliding dropout placement and unique turnbuckle bar to adjust tension on the belt drive. Click through for closeups of this and some other eyecatching bikes of his, Metrofiets’ crowd-carrying cargo bike, Paketa’s magnesium tandem (and others) and some beautiful paint from Zullo…

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At first glance, this road bike from Silk Cycles seems to have to many tubes. Upon closer inspection however, I quickly realized the engineering work at hand here.  The bike is a full size folder, and an elegantly designed one at that.

See just how the bike breaks down on the other side, plus a wild steampunk build from Donkelope…

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Predator Cycling is known for being one of a very few carbon fiber repair shops in the country (Ruckus being another).  But they do so much more.  At NAHBS they were happily showing off both bikes and components.

The first thing I noticed at the Predator booth was not their full carbon road bike, and it wasn’t their custom carbon belt drive cyclocross racer.  It was, in fact, The Major, their barstem combo that retails at a starting price of $600.  This barstem combo is unique in its construction.  It utilizes an inner joint made of ballistics kevlar that really helps kill road vibration.  The outer joint is then made of high modulus carbon fiber, and can even include an outer kevlar weave for added color like the red pictured above.  Any composite stem and bar can be used, but the stock option starts with an ENVE stem and FSA SL-K bar.

Hit the jump for Predator’s bikes and their pressfit seat mast / saddle combo, plus the bikes from Shamrock Cycles…

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In our pre-NAHBS interview this year, Gaulzetti promised a new emerald green color, supposedly the hot new Pantone (17-5641) hue for 2013, and, well, he delivered. It’s a bit brighter in person, and surprisingly good looking.

And that’s not all they showed that’s new. Click through for pics and info on his stuff, plus bikes from Generic Cycles, Tomassini and our usual photos-only coverage of Richard Sachs…

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While lots of attention was placed up on Andy Hampsten’s 1988 Giro-winning race bike, which was indeed branded as a Huffy, there was plenty more to see at his booth. But it was still pretty cool seeing a complete Dura-Ace group from that era, so we nabbed some pics.

Like Hampsten, Ellis Cycles had their take on a gravel road bike, and Funk had a range of titanium mountain bikes to behold. Yipsan, meanwhile, scaled back the flash and only brought customer bikes, but they still had the kind of details we love to see. Click on through for the gallery and notes…

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We first spotted them at NAHBS on Black Sheep’s bikes, and now Wolf Tooth Components is developing a full line of “Drop-Stop” chainrings for 1×10 and 1×11 drivetrains. The tooth profiles use alternating thicknesses, similar to SRAM’s stock XX1 chainrings, to allow you to run the single front ring without a chainguide…provided you’re using one of the newer clutch-type rear derailleurs.

To clarify the headline a bit, it’s any 104BCD crankset for their “standard” chainrings, or any modern SRAM crankset by replacing both the spider and rings with their single-piece ring.

According to founder Mike Pfeiffer, he made one so he could run XX1 on his fat bike or run a 1×10 without a guide. He soon found there was quite a bit of interest. And demand. So, he made a business of it. He told us the 7075-T651 billet aluminum’s being cut now and the first production rings should be available in 2-3 weeks.

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