Factory Tour

Factory Tour: Caletti Cycles’ Handmade Steel, Titanium Bicycles

John Caletti’s bikes have always impressed me at NAHBS. Not because they’re super trick showstoppers or full of hidden features. But because they’re always elegant…

Written by Tyler Benedict May 30, 2013

Mavic World HQ Tour – Wheel R&D, Shoes, Soft Goods and More!

Mavic’s Annecy, France, HQ houses clothing & footwear design and wheels prototyping and testing. It also holds their accounting, administration and other desk jobs, for…

Written by Tyler Benedict May 13, 2013

Fox Racing Shox Museum Grand Opening: Defining Moments,Then & Now

Sea Otter is full of mini product launches within its Laguna Seca confines, but it is also host to many events that happen outside the…

Written by Zach Overholt May 09, 2013

Inside Look: Giro Design Headquarters

Easton Bell Sports’ Scotts Valley, CA, headquarters houses Giro’s design facility, where all of their helmets for various sports are created. When developing a new…

Written by Tyler Benedict April 17, 2013

Factory Tour: Paul Components

In the world of high end touring bikes, and in the hallowed halls of NAHBS, Paul Components have long been a popular staple. The company…

Written by Saris Mercanti April 11, 2013

Factory Tour: Chrome’s Impressive US Bag Production

Chrome’s iconic messenger bags helped put a face on the messenger inner city cycling subculture. The sharp, understated design has sparked many imitators, and been…

Written by Saris Mercanti April 03, 2013

Trek Factory Tour Part 3: US Based OCLV Carbon Bike Production

Imagine working on something so top secret, that even the person building it didn’t have the clearance to know what it was. That was the…

Written by Zach Overholt March 13, 2013

Trek Factory Tour Part 2: Prototyping, Testing, and Product Development

Chances are, if you’ve been to Trek and taken the tour, you’ve probably seen this door – and it’s probably been locked. Like any bike…

Written by Zach Overholt March 12, 2013

Factory Tour: Trek Bicycle Company’s Waterloo Headquarters, Part 1

Our visit to FrostBike this year meant braving the Northern snow covered roads from here to Minneapolis, but it also meant that we had time…

Written by Zach Overholt March 11, 2013

Road To NAHBS 2013 – Engin Cycles

After starting Wissahickon Cyclery in 1995 and creating a bike shop beloved by the community with the help of his staff, owner Drew Guldalian turned…

Written by Zach Overholt February 13, 2013

Shop Tour: Co-Motion Part 3 – Paint and Polish

So far we have explored frame construction and parts creation at Co-Motion. This go around we take a look at how Co-Motion pretties up their…

Written by Nick Burklow February 03, 2013

Shop Tour: Co-Motion Cycles Part 2 – CNC Machining

In Part One of our Co-Motion Cycles shop tour we showed you the brazing and welding of their frames. We also made mention of the…

Written by Nick Burklow February 02, 2013

Shop Tour: Co-Motion Cycles Part 1 – Welding and Brazing

I recently had the pleasure of reviewing the Co-Motion Nor’Wester steel road bike. With Co-Motion’s production facility located close by in Eugene, OR, I decided…

Written by Nick Burklow February 01, 2013

Factory Tour: Inside Ciamillo’s Carbon Fiber/Alloy Brake Workshop – Plus Gravitas Cranks Closeup!

Ted Ciamillo is an interesting guy. He’s built a business around incredibly lightweight road bike brakes, has been teasing a radical (and radically light) carbon-fiber-and-alloy…

Written by Tyler Benedict January 29, 2013

Shop Tour – Blaq Design’s New Retail Shop / Production Facility

Blaq Design started off a couple of guys in Kent, OH making rough looking messenger bags. They have come a long way since then…

Written by Nick Burklow December 21, 2012

Taiwan Bike Tour: Ming Cycle – Private Label Production, Assembly & Strida Folding Bikes

As part of our tour of Taiwan’s bicycle industry, we swung by Ming Cycle, one of the world’s largest OEM bike manufacturers. But they’re far…

Written by Tyler Benedict November 05, 2012

Taiwan Bike Tour: Pacific Cycles, Part 2 – Crazy Bikes, Wild Suspension & Original Di2 Prototypes!

Our tour of Pacific Cycles continues… In Part One, we showed you the classics, some folding bikes and some functional bikes that serve the physically…

Written by Tyler Benedict October 23, 2012

Taiwan Bike Tour: Pacific Cycles, Part 1 – Not What You Think

Founded in 1980, Pacific Cycles is a large scale (one of the largest) private label manufacturers. While they weren’t giving up their client list, I…

Written by Tyler Benedict October 22, 2012

Taiwan Bike Tour: Giant Bicycles’ Taichung Factory Visit

We were invited to visit Taiwan by the island’s trade organization’s for their first ever “Bike Bloggers Tour”, an outreach program to share both their passion…

Written by Tyler Benedict October 18, 2012

Factory Tour – Independent Fabrication’s Steel, Ti & Carbon Custom Bicycle Shop

Tucked away in a the cozy little town of Newmarket, NH, Independent Fabrication has a complete shop set up for building custom steel, titanium and…

Written by Tyler Benedict August 17, 2012

Inside Look At A Uniquely English “Folding” Bicycle

“The Moulton Bicycle is the original full-suspension, separable, small- wheeled, high performance bicycle, world renowned for speed, efficiency, durability and comfort. Expertly engineered for over…

Written by Saris Mercanti August 17, 2012

Factory Tour – Firefly Bicycles Custom Titanium & Stainless Steel Bikes

Tucked away in a very industrial area just outside Boston (but not for long, they’ll be moving closer to the city before the year’s out!)…

Written by Tyler Benedict August 13, 2012

SRAM World Headquarters Tour

This unassuming building houses the world headquarters of SRAM and their World Bicycle Relief charity. From the outside, you’d never know it, and that’s intentional,…

Written by Tyler Benedict August 10, 2012