NAHBS – Photos from the Handbuilt Show Pt4

It's all about extended seat tubes... Loving the bike stand though.

Black Cat bikes from Santa Cruz. Makers of some of the nicest dropouts...

A nice Black Cat take on the 'classic' singlespeed. (Since when were 29in wheels classic?)

Van Gough paintjob anyone?

Get yer qwalidee fixie wear here!

A deliberately dirty bike? Or just 'cos it's been ridden? We hope the latter.

Swap the bars and this Caletti might make a good UCI legal 'crosser.

Bamboo. Yes, it's still around...

Paul Components. Making a living out of the niche for years. Great folks too.

Wiggley titanium tubes from Black Sheep

It was 'Edge' and now it's 'Enve' - makers of carbon everything!

A snowbike for delivering beer and pizzas? Yes please!

Ira Ryan with a brave colour choice that seems to work rather well.

Independent Fabrication. Winner of 'Best TIG Welding'

It's a Naked bike...

Check out the apparent lack of headset, seatpost or, in fact anything that's not purely 'bike'

Want to know who the judges chose as the best bikes, welders, paint and so on?

The answer is here at the official NAHBS website.

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (7)

AndiThompsonAndiThompson March 2, 2011 at 2:31 pm

That orange/black Independent Fabrication looks lovely.

1961Bikie1961Bikie March 2, 2011 at 4:00 pm

Love the Naked bike, just looks ace having no visible joints/fixtures.

captainflashheartcaptainflashheart March 2, 2011 at 10:14 pm

Crabon belt drive crosser….Like.

topangaridertopangarider March 2, 2011 at 11:19 pm

Was there any bikes with 26″ wheels there?!?!

Not as an impressive set of bikes as previous years.

soma_richsoma_rich March 3, 2011 at 10:16 am

How on earth does the naked bike work? Is there a pressed bearing in the frame hidden away as a headset? Its beautiful.

OllyOlly March 3, 2011 at 12:01 pm

also no skewers or vaguely visible wheel attachements.
and is the saddle glued on, as there is no apparent clamp!

wonder if its a two speed kick back hub in there…..

dRjOndRjOn March 3, 2011 at 1:48 pm

welded saddle rails to post….yurp, internal headset…

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