Handmade bikes

Custom frames, or handmade whatever you want to call them. I LOVE them. There is some serious cycling love coming out of these guys/gals.



Custom frames are sort of like many other high end niche products like custom fly rods, cigars, high end Whiskeys, or custom geetars, or custom banjos, or pimping out your ride, or audiophile equipment, hiring a coach and on and on that are just a testament to the amount of disposable income that we have now as compared to 10 or 20 years ago.

It's nice to know that there are thousands and thousands of people with these small little businesses making enough to survive and are happy because they are making a living doing what they love. And we (the world with disposable income) can support them.

Anyway, I've had custom frames for some time because of long legs/short torso syndrome. So I've got a soft spot for them.

velo news just listed a buyers guide, which is nice because you don't usually see custom frames mentioned too much in the bigger cycling press, outside of those tiny adds in the back of velo news or dirt rag
velo news custom buyers guide

I love my hardtail custom steel MTB. But honestly, I have deliberately stayed away from full suspension bikes because I am worried that I am going to want one. The older I get and the slower I get sometimes I think that going that route will make everything better.

but for now steel baby.

One of these days. I am going to make my own, someday