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Handmade Bike Show: It's more than just steel

The Rue Sports Retro Grouch mimicked the look of steel but in carbon fiber

  • Jim Zoellner of Roark Titanium built this killer rig for his daughter
  • The Rue Sports Retro Grouch mimicked the look of steel but in carbon fiber
  • That may look like a steel lug, but it's carbon
  • Road Runner Velo's Sprezzatura
  • Slovakian builder Brano Meres came to NAHBS with this showstopping C-Thru carbon truss bike
  • Mares integrates the hard points in an impressively clean-looking fashion.
  • IF president Matt Bracken always wanted an over-the-top 29
  • the wheels are CNC machined from aluminum
  • Jeff Jones 3D-Spaceframe: the peculiar arrangement of frame tubes makes for a comfy ride
  • Bruce Gordon's titanium road frame was designed to look like steel
  • Colorado builder Black Sheep showed off a pivotless titanium full-suspension design
  • The MacPherson strut design makes a comeback on Black Sheep's full-suspension frame
  • Moots offered its own take on the townie bike with the Comooter
  • Titanium builder Kish Fabrication showed this curved tube titanium model
  • Ric Hjertberg of FSA also has a side project involving wooden rims

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The Rue Sports Retro Grouch mimicked the look of steel but in carbon fiber

© James Huang, technical editor