Rebolledo focuses on steel road, track and cyclocross bikes. They’re pretty straightforward with classic paint schemes, which is sometimes a refreshing break from the matte carbon or over the top things we saw.
More from Steve Potts, Steve Rex, Twinsix and Zullo below…
Hunter Cycles had a couple of really nice touring bikes on display, with the 29er cruiser style mountain bike above being the most rugged. Complete with front and rear racks, a center storage pack and breakaway frame. The downtube is connected with an S&S coupler at the bottom, and the top breaks apart at the seat tube. A diagonal cut near the top (where the paint changes color) clamps the lower part to the seatpost to keep it all together.
More from Dinucci, Anderson, Holland and Landshark below…
Guru, a custom bicycle manufacturer based just outside of Montreal, is known for their carbon fiber road and triathlon bikes, but they now doing about 50% of their bikes in steel and titanium, too. They’re also getting back into mountain bikes, offering full custom metal hardtails with your choice of wheel sizes.
The Photon, above, is their premier road bike and they claim it’s the lightest full custom bike with a frame weight of 747g for a 54/medium. It uses a mix of high modulus carbon in lower stress areas and mid-mod in high load sections of the bike. Framesets are $5,300 for full custom with ENVE 1.0 fork and FSA headset.
Lots more, including Kirk’s curvy steel ‘cross bike with disc brakes, below…
Cykelmageren, out of Denmark, never fails to have some new yet classic looking “tourist” bicycles with unexpected features. Built to be simple, upright bikes for navigating the city streets, shifting and braking (if they have gears or brakes) is handled in some unique way. And if you like the tidbits, many of the parts are available separately.
Contrasting Cykelmageren’s old-school style and steel tubes is Kirklee’s flashy paint schemes and carbon fiber race bikes. Click on through to see it all…
Vendetta Cycles’ builder/owner Conor Buescher loves some elaborate lug work, and this year’s bikes were no exception.
Above was a very dark road bike with a few shiny bits to catch the eye, but the red commuter bike and his green track bike were the real highlights. And if the increasing use of bicycles for commuting in the U.S. continue (as we hope they will, particularly with gas prices likely to average more than $4 per gallon this summer!), you might be seeing more bicycles like Metrofiet’s bakfiets-style cargo bike, all pictured after the break…
The big news from Gaulzetti, which he alluded to in the pre-show interview, is the introduction of steel frames using Columbus’ über-oversized PegoRichie tubing.
Frame weight can be as little as 60g heavier than their aluminum frames. Builder Craig Gualzetti says its their first tubeset he’s used that’s not of his own design because he simply couldn’t make something better. They’re one of the first builders to use these tubes, and the stealth black road bike above is the result.
Check some raw frames of this and his traditional aluminum road bikes, along with Di2 bikes from Dave Wages at Ellis Cycles, after the break…
The Co-Motion Divide has been high on the wish list of personal bikes I want to own for a while now. It’s a go anywhere, do anything rig, and this special NAHBS build makes me want one even more. This is the first Divide to come out of Co-Motion with a Gates Carbon Belt Drive and Rohloff Hub.
For the full build details, plus a full suspension fat tire bike from Form and a 36″ wheeled monster from Black Sheep, hit the jump.
Naked bicycles took a unique approach to how they were going to get their display bikes to Sacramento this year. Builder Sam Whittingham and his assistant Lolo rode road over 375 miles to get to the show. The trip was documented here, and makes for an interesting read. It shows both the design and build of the bikes, as well as chronicles the trip they took to get to the 2012 NAHBS show.
Naked bicycles is no stranger to winning at NAHBS, and this year is no different. This lovely, and unique, cargo bike was the winner of the Gates Carbon Belt Drive design contest.
Head to the otherside for more Naked bikes, plus a 26″ touring bike from Ahearne and a custom carbon disc brake cross bike from Appleman.
Alchemy’s carbon road bikes have one of the stealthiest matte finishes of any of the bikes we’ve seen. Their paints use zero paint, with only a gloss finish for their logo. The Aero Road bike above isn’t new since last year, but they did disclose that their tubes are made by ENVE Composites (from Alchemy’s molds, last year they only said they were “U.S. made”). Despite the aero shaping, all of their frames are full custom sizes and geometries to suit the rider.
They were showing a few other bikes, along with an unfinished carbon frame that shows the layup complexity, plus one heck of a commuter bike and trail from Ira Ryan and a curvy 650B mountain bike from Kent Eriksen…
Calfee always has a few nice items in their booth, but this year they pulled out all the stops. While tandems may not be your thing, they had THREE of them, all with some incredibly cool tech that could be built onto just about any of their bikes. Beyond that, they’ve expanded their set of internal Di2 offerings and updated the PowerPost seatpost/battery combo with an external charging port.
The bamboo tandem above was designed to be a do anything, go anywhere bike. It’s equipped with disc brakes, Gates Belt Drive for both the timing and drive chain mated to a Rohloff internally geared hub.
Priority Cycles showed off quite a few full suspension bikes last year. For 2012, their booth was sparsely populated, but it had a real show stopper.
The prototype DH bike above was made for HippieTech suspension founder Jerry Vanderpool, who will be racing it all season, including at Sea Otter Classic, to test it. Then, Priority Cycles’ builder/owner Damon Madsen wants to put into production. It’s pure prototype, as you’ll see from the rough construction, but it’s totally sick. We’re talking dual drive inside the front triangle, left-hand belt drive and right-side rear disc brakes. Here’s how it works…
Paul Brodie’s Whippet caught plenty of eyeballs. It’s a replica 1888 Whippet bicycle, designed with seven pivot points to help insulate the rider from road shock before the invention of pneumatic tires. Lots of photos and the story, plus bikes from Victoria, Ventus, Dominguez and Pitz, further down…
