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NORTH AMERICAN HANDMADE BICYCLE SHOW 2008

By Ray Hu - February 11, 2008

NAHBS 2008 And we're outta here!
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Signal Bicycle Great booth, great cycle - minty!
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You want to see a custom bike? The ultimate bicycle! Single speed, tall-bike, 80's colors! Unbeatable.
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Do the Seventy-Seven ohh-yeaahhh!
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Parking Lot: FULL What, is there a bike convention going on?
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Brooks Booth Brooks; captivating audiences since 1866.
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Distributor of Sadles, Tires People converse in front of a display of Continental tires
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Independent Fabrication Ice blue, sparkling chrome and a hint of green- the glacier look.
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Pegoretti Frames Colorful Pegorettis.
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Independent Fabrication The sexy, slender tubes of Independent Fab.
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Frame parts from Fairing Industrial Textured components.
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Reynolds Tubing at the Fairing Booth Steelz iz Realz. Reynolds has been at it for over a hundred years too.
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Bilenky Cycle Works Nice colorway on a Bilenky.
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Cloud Nine Booth Checking out a Cloud Nine.
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Lug on Baylis Bike Sorry about the photo. Nice lug though, eh?
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Calfee Design Horn-ed Cruiser Bamboo frame, Cow horn handlebars and fork.
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Soul Craft Booth Soul craft shows off interesting chain-tensioning drop-outs.
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Paul Components Awesome parts from venerable Paul Components. Featured here: "Royal Flush" chain ring.
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Litton Cycles A tube collection at the booth of Ed Litton.
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Baylis the Man, Baylis the Bike Longtime (since '73) framebuilder Brian Baylis.
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SRAM Gundam SRAM got its Mech on with these fantastically detailed models.
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Phil Wood hubs Hubba Hubba?
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Black Sheep Vintage-esque Full Suspension Bike Excellent hybridization of retro styling and tech.
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Renovo Frame Closeup Most ancient of Material, meet Modern Machining.
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Renovo Wood Bicycle Frame This one is Douglas Fir I think, but they do them in hardwood too. Monocoque design - they are hollow frames! Light, stiff, and can serve as kindling in emergencies.
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BikeCAD Booth A parametric CAD tool for bicycle frame design, from The Bicycle Forest.
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Pegoretti Bike at the Brooks Booth Italian hand-built frame kitted-out with Brooks gear.
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Signal Signage Art school grads, bicycle mechanics, handmade bike-builders - signal.
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Dedacciai Tubes Aluminum tubes from Dedacciai, with technical drawings of the tube butting.
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Alternative Needs Transportation Like their name sez; Alternative Needs Transportation focuses on the functional needs of commuting cyclists. Quote from their website: "When I see an adult on a bicycle I do not despair for the future of the human race."--H.G.Wells
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Retrovelo One of the more ordinary bikes of Retrovelo, of Germany. Click through to their catalog to see an all-cream-toned wonder.
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Courage Bicycle Booth Winner of Best New Builder at the show. Great bicycle-heritage stylings.
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Pacenti Parts MOAR!
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Pacenti Table Bicycle; a sum of its parts?
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Pacenti Lugs, fork crowns, drop-outs, braze-ons; street gang names or bike parts?
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Sycip Booth Sycip from Santa Rosa, maker of bikes, put up a backdrop of their machine shop.
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Dedacciai Tubes Lombard (Italy) based manufacturer of bicycle tubes - they come in all flavors... steel, aluminum, titanium etc.
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Henry James Bicycle Frame and Fork Building Jig The show includes vendors of bike building equipment, like Henry James. A frame building jig of theirs is pictured here.
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Cane Creek Wheels Advertised as having very quick acceleration.
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Chris King Hub Bling
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Chris King Booth Some friendly banter over Annodized Eye-candy.
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Wood Rims from Wheel Fanatyk Ghisallo classic wood rims
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Hub-lin? Think this was on a Villin. Love the enamel filled channel look.
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Jones Spaceframe Jeff Jones Spaceframe with Fat Fork, featuring Surly's 26" X 3.7" Endomorph tire.
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1949 Camping Bike 100% original (except bottle cage), rear drum brake, lighting wires run inside the tubes, featured in the book "The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles" by Jan Heine.
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BME Bamboo Bamboo MTB Frame - nice aesthetic balance of the bamboo and carbon composite joints.
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Brano Meres Frames Carbon C-Thru Road Frame.
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EWR Woods Bike A re-issue of the EWR original woods bike (early 90's) produced by Bilenky.
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Bilenky Frame with Couplers Screw together couplers allow easy frame break-down for compact shipping.
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Roadrunner Velo carbon fiber frames They have a carbon fiber recumbent too.
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DeSalvo Frame Split down tube. Paul brakes.
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Giant BMX at DeSalvo Booth The All-white Cockpit is choice!
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YiPsan bikes Awesome copper spacer on a YiPsan bike.
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GroundUpDesigns Track bikes Some custom flava'd trackbikes from GroundUpDesigns.
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daVinci Designs Demo A demo of their tandem transmission system.
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Arantix frame Carbon fiber, kevlar frame - Limited to 200 units (this run at least) - it was light and felt very rigid.
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Effetto Mariposa Torque Wrench It starts with the tools.
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The annual confab of homegrown-bike builders visits Portland, Ore. - NAHBS 2008! An amazing showcase of craftsmanship, materials and style that no designer should miss.