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Road to NAHBS 2015: Savvy Cycles’ hits the trail with a big stick

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Saavy Cycles NAHBS 2015 29er trailhead

Celebrating their debut year at NAHBS, Savvy Cycles will be making their argument that wood is good.  Following the lead of other outdoor industry product in returning to wood as a viable and environmentally friendly composite base material and inspired by modern heavy timber technology, Savvy’s handmade hickory and ash designs utilize advanced joining methods and adhesives for tough and weight-competitive results.

BIKERUMOR: What are your main building materials?

Mike: We use wood! Hickory, Ash and Sepele.

BIKERUMOR: What’s new with your company since NAHBS last year?

Mike: First time at NAHBS this year. We will be showing wood frame mountain bikes and a fat bike.

Saavy Cycles NAHBS 2015 29er rear

BIKERUMOR: Any killer custom bike builds in that time?

Mike: We are working on a wood frame with some colored died woods. First look at the show!

Saavy Cycles NAHBS 2015 29er cluster

BIKERUMOR: What were some of your newer inspirations for recent bikes?

Mike: Winter brings wet or snowy trails and debris covered roads, so we are developing a Gravel bike for winter road riding and a fat bike for the snow covered trails.

Saavy Cycles NAHBS 2015 29er HT

BIKERUMOR: What are you building this year that’ll draw a crowd?

Mike: Our artful wood frames.

BIKERUMOR: If you had to build a bike for a Kentucky Derby style race (think short, all out effort on deep, loose dirt), what would you build and why?

Mike: Light weight Fat Bike to float over the deep loose dirt.

Saavy Cycles NAHBS 2015 29er rad

BIKERUMOR: Bourbon or beer?

Mike: Beer!

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Antoine
Antoine
9 years ago

Floating above mud is slow and in fact doesn’t happen.

i5921E
i5921E
9 years ago

The head tube junction scares me, would still ride

joenomad
joenomad
9 years ago

Beautiful workmanship. what’s the warranty?

charlie patterson
charlie patterson
9 years ago

I’d be worried about abrasion resistance on the stays. Otherwise, it looks amazing.

originalwood
originalwood
9 years ago

Straight up design rip off of Conner Wood Bikes in Denver, shameful at the very least.

attorneyrider
attorneyrider
9 years ago

I’d be worried about a lawsuit, check out conner wood bikes, both in Colorado.

Psi Squared
Psi Squared
9 years ago

I don’t see the lawsuit potential at all.

Standingtimber
Standingtimber
9 years ago

Sure looks allot like a copied design to me. Check out the Conner Website, I just did. Not sure about a lawsuit but definitely not an original design just look at the seat stays, the seat tube, the hip joint below the seat collar, the chain stays, etc. etc. compared with the Conner Bikes.

It will be embarrassing to show up at NAHBS with such an obvious copy of the design, how would one promote it a new or clever or inventive?

They say imitation is the best form of flattery….

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