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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best In Show: Our editor’s pick for the best bike on the floor of NAHBS 2014 goes to this Cykelmageren city bike. When asked what the name of this bike is, designer Rasmus Gjesing pointed to the three bikes in his booth and said, “Bike One, Bike Two, and Bike Three.” Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
The top tube of the Cykelmageren was eye catching and clearly took Gjesing copious hours of time to fabricate in his Danish workshop. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Paint: Festka’s fellow Czech nationals artists Tomski and Polanki painted this Festka track bike with acrylic markers. Festka says this bike is the start of an artist series of bikes that will also be shown off in its clothing line. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Nearly every inch of the Festka and its components was colored with acrylic markers. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Mountain Bike: The Breadwinner Bad Otis is different, as it’s a hardtail all-mountain bike, but its beautiful welds and 160mm RockShox Pike fork makes us want to disappear in the high country for a weekend. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Cyclocross Bike: The Independent Fabrication Carbon Cross Jester has been around since 2010, though it's not a model you'll find listed in Indy Fab's lineup and it's rarely marketed by them. The owner of this Cross Jester, Dylan McNicholas, must have asked very nicely for this one to be produced. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
The carbon crown lugs could also be Best Lugs of NAHBS, but we don’t want the Independent Fabrication crew from New England getting too full of themselves. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Tandem: Calfee has been doing tandems better than anyone for years, but they’ve one-upped themselves with the Tetra Convertible Tandem, which can be decoupled for travel and for turning into a single bike for solo adventures. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Here is another Calfee Tetra Convertible Tandem set up as a single. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Head-Scratcher: The Razik Vortex is an eye catcher, and then it’s a head scratcher as you look at the construction. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
The Razik Vortex uses tubes made of the company’s carbon IsoTruss carbon weave design. Brake cable routing is internal. Sort of. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Most Italian Bike: In North Carolina it doesn’t get any more Italian than this Palladio. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Use of Plaid: Plaid is a tricky pattern, but this Cielo Cross Racer pulls it off. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
The Cielo Cross Racer was sporting one of the new Cielo Racer Stems, perfectly color-coordinated to the frame. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Headlight Integration: Kevin Harvey of Harvey Cycleworks created this 27” wheeled adventure bike, and fabricated his own headlight cluster bracket that seamlessly integrates dual headlights into the fork. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Harvey also created the mesh headlight grills and designed the headlight mounts to turn, so the rider can adjust precisely where the lights are pointing. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Saddle: Fizik and Brooks, both of the Selle Royal group, provide custom wrapped saddles to select builders at NAHBS. All of these saddles were on bikes in the Pegoretti booth. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Heritage Pride Bike: This Shamrock Cycles Cross Bike pays tribute to owner Yngvar Brynildssen’s Norwegian heritage, and the Norwegian livery paint was executed by Corby Concepts. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
The top tube of Brynildssen’s Cross Bike is meant to resemble a type of Viking sword called an Ulberht. Each letter was individually brazed on and then polished. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Road Bike: When it comes to choosing a Best Road Bike, we look for something we would want to race day-in and day-out. The Holland Cycles HC is the first full carbon bike offered by San Diego builder Bill Holland. The Holland HC, which stands for hors categorie as well as Holland Cycles, was co-developed with Mike Lopez, formerly of Reynolds and Serotta. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
If you want an HC, you better get in line. Forty-two Signature frames and forks will be sold first, to celebrate Bill Holland’s 42 years of frame building. Twenty-one of those frames pre-sold for $7,700 each, before the buyers even saw a prototype. The HC frame will sell for $6,400, once the remaining 21 Signature frames are spoken for. Even if you signed on the dotted line for a Signature frame today, you wouldn’t be taking delivery until 2015. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Track Bike: 611 Bicycle Co. built this bike for Chris King employee Chris Kessler. As with most bikes on the show floor in Charlotte, the details make this bike what it is — beautiful. From the one-off stem and seatmast topper to the paint executed by Airglow Painting, there’s plenty to look at on this fixed gear. The judges at NAHBS agree, and it won their award for Best Track Bike, too. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Most Likely to Make You Stare: Sunrise Cycles of Tokya, Japan built this fixed gear, and it took us some time to take it in. Photos cannot do this bike’s fabrication justice. The frame was built by Yu Takai, and the graphics are by Takahiro Hagiyama. Hagiyama, created the graphics on paper and then cut them out, pasted them to the red frame, and clear coated over them. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Reinvention of Frame Lugs: The Sunrise Cycles fixed gear used amazingly ornate lugs. This one pulled double-duty as the housing for the taillight. The headlight was integrated into an equally ornate piece on the handlebar. Photo: Brad Kaminski | Velonews.com
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Best Carbon Bike: The Appleman Mountain Bike was created for a serial buyer of Appleman’s carbon creations. The fork also caught our eye, a yet-to-be announced Enve 29er carbon fork. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
The handlebar stem combo makes for clean lines, and titanium logos are a classy touch. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Accessory for North Carolina: Kish Fabrications is based just a couple of hours outside of Charlotte, an area where moonshine in mason jars is commonplace. Kish Fabrications was selling titanium mason jar bottle cages paired with a custom Kish mason jar. A fitting accessory to Kish’s titanium bikes. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Color: Ira Ryan’s Breadwinner Cycle B-Road sported a sharp orange and sky blue combination. Ryan designed the B-Road based on his experience winning the Trans Iowa. “I hate the term gravel grinder. This is my dirt bike,” Ryan said. Ryan also opted for 11-speed downtube shifters that he fabricated together himself. “You don’t get that loud clicking engagement sound from Di2 and its electronic solenoids,” he said. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Decorated Booth: The Pegoretti Cycles booth had some modern art hanging around. The three pieces were painted by Dario Pegoretti the day before NAHBS opened. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: Velo's best of NAHBS awards for 2014
Best Looking Dropouts: The Geekhouse Hopedale road disc bike sported some masterfully powder coated and painted Paragon Machine Works dropouts. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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The Geekhouse Hopedale was first powder coated and then Jordan Low Custom Paint carefully hit it with more color. The result is dropouts that pop. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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