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Custom Bicycles

Postby RYP » Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:23 pm

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When it comes to bespoke bicycles, Michael Maharam happily calls himself a dilettante. A lifelong collector of one-of-a-kind bikes from around the world, Maharam, of the New York textile company of the same name, recently made friends with a true expert — Sacha White, a master builder who owns Vanilla Bicycles in Portland, Ore. Together, they conceived an exhibition devoted to the work of craftsmen like White, who make a living cutting steel, welding and filing for weeks on end. (‘‘You wouldn’t want to be their manicurist,’’ Maharam says.) The show, ‘‘Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle,’’ which opens May 12 at the Museum of Arts and Design, collects 21 of the finest contemporary examples from America and abroad, from charming, Old World road bikes to aggressively styled titanium and steel mountain bikes. On the gallery’s back wall, a set of drawings by the design firm 2×4 explains how bicycles are built. Maharam hopes the exhibition will open up the city’s bicycle culture to more people. ‘‘One reason bicycles have become so popular is because manufacturers are making the well designed and beautiful accessible to the masses,’’ he says. ‘‘This is the epitome of the well designed and beautiful.’’

Mike Flanigan, Alternative Needs Transportation (A.N.T.), Holliston, MA.
• Jeff Jones, Jeff Jones Custom Bicycles, Medford, OR
• Dario Pegoretti, Pegoretti Cicli, Calonazzo, Italy
• Richard Sachs, Richard Sachs Cycles, Warwick, MA
• J. Peter Weigle, J. Peter Weigle Cycles, Lyme, CT
• Sacha White, Vanilla Bicycles, Portland, OR
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Re: Custom Bicycles

Postby coldharvest » Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:39 pm

Don't forget to put a kids chair on the handle-bars for that life affirming "Terrifying ride with Grandpa" experience.
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Re: Custom Bicycles

Postby rickshaw92 » Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:46 pm

Beautiful.
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Re: Custom Bicycles

Postby mapandcompass » Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:23 pm

Wow, those are sweet rides. I particularly like the green one with the backswept handlebars.
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Re: Custom Bicycles

Postby thewalrus » Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:53 pm

See also, just about everything exhibited at this trade show:

http://www.google.com/search?q=north+am ... =firefox-a
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Re: Custom Bicycles

Postby Woodsman » Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:15 pm

rickshaw92 wrote:Beautiful.


My thought exactly.

That first one is really art.
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Re: Custom Bicycles

Postby ktrout » Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:09 am

Those are really sweet. Except I rode a basically factory department store bicycle across the United States so I think they're kind of pointless too.
The street rodders of human powered vehicles?
I see customs as really useful for making things that are more unusual. Such as recumbent streamliners or trials bikes.
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Re: Custom Bicycles

Postby Devlin » Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:13 am

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Re: Custom Bicycles

Postby coldharvest » Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:49 am

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Re: Custom Bicycles

Postby ktrout » Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:20 pm

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Re: Custom Bicycles

Postby Mikethehack » Sat May 15, 2010 10:09 am

I've been to war on one of these babies.
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Re: Custom Bicycles

Postby Royal » Sat May 15, 2010 5:32 pm

Mikethehack wrote:I've been to war on one of these babies



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