NAHBS Post 3.

I think these posts are getting successively less rubbish... but I might be wrong.


611 track bike. Brushed stainless steel tubing. Look forward to seeing Mr. Loud race it at Northbrook this season. [edit] TRACK BIKE OF THE YEAR, BABY!!


611 belt-drive town bike.


The bars of the belt-drive town bike. So rad.


Beautiful track bike from Don Walker.


Brooks booth. Is that Moby?


Geekhouse stable. Really nice stuff.


Solid as fuck looking Geekhouse polo bike.


Vanilla booth.


Damn.

Okay, I only got about 4 hours sleep last night, so I'm wrecked, and am taking a break from posting for a while. Check back for more photos as NAHBS continues.

NAHBS Post 2.

This will be a slightly less rubbish post than the last one, thanks to Jon from TwoToneATL who gave me the idea to switch out my sim cards, enabling me to upload some photos. Cool story, right? Anyway, thanks Jon!


Sachs booth. Lots of stuff that says ATMO.


Obligatory weird Cherubim photo!


Don Walker tandem.


The Selle Royal booth. Apparently some Selle Royal ORIGINS Contour designs from the 70s are to be reintroduced, hence the 70s theme.


Vanilla hotness: gold.


Vanilla hotness: pink.

That's it for now.

NAHBS Post 1.

My camera ran out of batteries, so these are all the photos I have for now. Clearly, I take this blogging lark this pretty seriously.


This is the Six-Eleven Bicycle Co booth. Aaron and Michelle did a great job setting this up, and Aaron's bikes are incredible. I will be racing the blue cross bike this season! I promise to go extra slow so you can get a good look at it.


Sweet track bike from Legor Cicli.

More photos soon, I promise.

This Weekend

Check back for photos of the show.

Urban Velo

As I previously mentioned, Urban Velo were the kings of NAHBS coverage. In the off-hours, while the rest of us were out riding, partying, and resting (ha!), Brad and Jeff worked tirelessly taking awesome photos and updating their site with coverage and massive photo-dumps. It was so cool of them to come down and put so much work into covering the event. Even above and beyond the awesome pro photography he was cranking out all day, Brad took a couple photos with a vintage 35mm twin-lens reflex camera that really turned out great. I was fortunate enough to be one of the guys he shot:

of course, photo by Brad Quartuccio of Urban Velo

Thanks again guys!

NAHBS recap

Ok, I won't go into great detail about the coverage of NAHBS. I didn't really get a chance to even walk around and take many photos, so I'll leave that to the folks who have been doing so well with the coverage. Of course, Urban Velo killed it as always. Tracko's recent post had some great videos that gave a good sense of the event. Also, the guys from Outofprintmag were there and really did some good coverage/wrap-up. Check it out here. However, I would like to take this opportunity to say what an honor it was to have won the "Rookie of the Year" new builder award. I was up against some really tough competition and it was really amazing to have been selected by such and incredible panel of industry experts.

Photo by OUTOFPRINTMAG.COM

It was such a great time. I couldn't have asked for more. I can't wait for next year, which if you haven't heard, will be in Austin! So good!

I spy...

I see a couple people with waaaay more discipline than I have made it out to the Rapha Gentleman's Ride last Sunday.

Bravo gentlemen!

Seen on the Rapha blog

I've got a lot to debrief about the show, but I'll save that for next week. I'm still recovering from everything. In short though, it was amazing!

Six-Eleven Bicycle Co. at NAHBS

Check Aaron out with his gorgeous NAHBS show bike! It looks amazing, I love the details. Great work, buddy! Visit the brand new Six-Eleven Bicycle Co. page for details. [UPDATE] Aaron won Best New Builder at the show! HELL YES!

The photo, as you can see, is from Urban Velo, who always have the best NAHBS coverage. I love the professional photo setup and the speed with which they put the photos online. Thanks, Urban Velo!

Hipster Nascar Shirts at NAHBS

The first five people to go to the Six-Eleven Bicycle Co. stand at NAHBS and ask Aaron for a shirt will get one of these Hipster Nascar items FOR FREE, as demonstrated above by the lovely Kyle. Don't sleep!

Custom Ergo

As I sit here fretting about my NAHBS entry coming back from paint in time (and as I'm envisioning it), I thought I'd post a little mod I made for the bars on my show bike.

I took a pair of Cinelli's new track bars and brazed in an insert, creating the most comfortable hand position ever.

I've run this set-up for a while now on my old race bike, but this is the first time I've made it permanent. Previously, I've done it with carefully carved wood inserts with lots of metal foil HVAC duct tape. This feels so much better and more solid. Right now they're getting painted to match the frame. Be sure to stop by my table at NAHBS to feel for yourself.

NAHBS AFTER PARTY/COG PHOTO EXHIBITION- SATURDAY!

OK- this is going to be awesome. Saturday night starting around 7pm at the Marvin Lang Building (1623 W. Broad). Gonna be booze, food, and photos. Could you ask for more? How about a raffle with tons of awesome prizes with proceeds benefiting Richmond Pro Cycling? I better see y'all there!

The little portraits are 527 rider registration photos from the recent 2009 CMWC in Tokyo

This will definitely be the place to be Saturday night- if you were in Indy last year, you'll remember what an epic party that was. Let's kick it up a few notches in Richmond!

NAHBS- SATURDAY!

Saturday night some RIchmond locals are throwing an alleycat as well. Should be a pretty sweet race. This one is being put on by RVA messengers and friends and I even heard rumors of some RPC pro racers making an alleycat debut! Definitely not one to miss!

NAHBS- FRIDAY!

To kick things off, MASH is throwing a little alleycat with some pretty sweet prizes! Starts at 8pm Friday bight outside Exhibition Hall D.

That really is a pretty great payout. Andrew- I'm looking at you for 2nd place!

Rapha in Richmond

In the coming days, you are going to be seeing so many reasons why you should be heading to RVA for NAHBS. There really is no excuse not to go- and as if you don't already have enough reasons, here's another: Rapha, who will be exhibiting their 2010 collection at NAHBS, is host a Gentleman's Ride on Sunday morning with the help of Carytown Bicycle Company. Should be a great way to check out some of the Richmond riding.
Here's the details from Rapha:

GENTLEMEN'S RIDE
We also invite you to join us on the Sunday morning of the show where a group of us including Rapha Continental riders, framebuilders and partners will take an easy Gentlemen's Ride through the Richmond hills with the help of the folks at Carytown Bicycle Company.

We will depart from the show hotel (Richmond Marriott, 500 East Broad Street) at 7:30am. Meet us at 7:00am for coffee and pastries.

7am might be a bit early for this guy (especially if the party Saturday night goes as planned- more on that soon!), but I'm sure it'll be great if you can make it out!

More from Sachs

As Tracko pointed out earlier, looks like Richard Sachs will be selling some posters using a new font from the House Industries forthcoming Eames Century Modern collection at NAHBS. I'll definitely be picking one up!



Also saw that he'll have some other posters for sale there as well- Looks like this one will be on a shirt too

Nice!

Looks like Mr. Sachs got in a restock...

Just saw over on Flickr that Richard Sachs got a restock shipment in:




Just a matter of time (5+ years as a matter of fact) until they'll get turned into some of his stunning classic builds. Also noticed on the 'ole facebook that his birthday is this weekend. How about we celebrate with a little Sachs bike porn?











Pure Class.

Can't wait to see what he has in store for NAHBS.

NAHBS 2009 Photos

Okay, so, every other bike blogger in the world was at the North American Handmade Bike Show in Indiana this weekend, and a lot of them were liveblogging and posting up photos as the show was happening, so I really have nothing to add. I might as well pack it in, frankly. In the meantime, I highly recommend checking out Urban Velo's coverage, because it looks like they had a whole photo studio set up and they got some great shots of the bikes. Here are a couple of their photos, highlighting the work of NAHBS founder and master builder Don Walker, and featuring my teammate Michelle Dykstra's new Walker track bike. Sweet bike, Michelle!

Don Walker and a few of his happy customers. Photo from Urban Velo.

Michelle Dykstra's new Walker track. Photo from Urban Velo.

NAHBS 2009

If you can't be at the show this weekend, then follow the liveblog here. Hopefully I'll have some pics up next week.

Don Walker at NAHBS

I'm pretty certain Don has posted this NAHBS sneak peek on every bike forum, sub-forum, regional forum and regional sub-forum on the internet, but it would be remiss of me not to post it here too. It's a hot bike.

Click on the pic for a bigger view, or better still, go to the NAHBS to see it and other beautiful bikes in person. Starts on the 27th of February, in Indianapolis. Get your tickets here.

NAHBS 2009

The North American Handmade Bike Show is next month (Feb 27th - Mar 1st) in Indianapolis. It's the biggest and best show of its kind, so if you want to spend a weekend looking at some of the hottest bikes in the world, go get your ticket. Special online deal available here.

BikePortland have some great photos of last year's NAHBS, so you can see what you'd be missing if you didn't go to this year's. Go here.