How To Build A NAHBS Bike – Part 6: Paint, Decals and Show! The final step in bringing a bike to NAHBS is to give it a nice coat of paint, put it together, and get it to… Written by Tim Krueger March 05, 2015
How To Build A NAHBS Bike – Part 5: Selecting All The Right Components When building your dream bike, everyone has a tendency to simply pick all of the most expensive gear in existence. While it is a show… Written by Tim Krueger January 30, 2015
How To Build A NAHBS Bike – Part 4: Melting Tubes Together Welding a bike together can bring about romantic notions of fire and metal meeting, making something from nothing. Every bike must go through a transition… Written by Tim Krueger January 16, 2015
How To Build A NAHBS Bike – Part 3: Working With Your Builder And Agreeing To The Design The next step in creating your custom bike, after you talk through your wants and needs with your builder, and are sure of your proper… Written by Tim Krueger December 29, 2014
How To Build A NAHBS Bike – Part 2: Ensuring Proper Fit With A Specialized Body Geometry Fitting Working into the process of building the custom Matter Cycles BeneFat, I wanted to make sure that all of this effort was not wasted, and… Written by Tim Krueger December 23, 2014
How To Build A NAHBS Bike – Part 1: Starting The Process Of A Custom Bike Bikes shown at the North American Handbuilt Bicycle Show are objects worthy of drool. For years, I have seen the art that passes through those… Written by Tim Krueger December 17, 2014
Fresh Fatties: Matter Cycles Newest Benefat and Shand’s New Rohloff x Gates Tumshie First profiled on our “How to Build a NAHBS Bike” series, the Matter Cycles Benefat fat bike already checked a lot of boxes. Built to… Written by Zach Overholt November 05, 2015
NAHBS 2015: Matter Cycles’ gorgeous steel gravel road bike & SlayRide hardtail Matter Cycles popped up last year building chromoly steel bikes out of Boulder, CO. We were so impressed with them, one of us commissioned them… Written by Tyler Benedict March 26, 2015