On this week’s show, we continue our conversation with Erik Noren of Peacock Groove. Last week we talked about some of Noren’s signature creations like his Evil Dead bike and his Appetite for ...
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The Pull: Erik Noren of Peacock Groove, Part I
Among the many builders I’ve interviewed in my career, I can say that Erik Noren is truly unique. In a room full of unusual cats, he still manages to stand alone. This episode, and the next, ...
The Pull: Gabriel Lang
This week I interview NAHBS Best in Show winner Gabriel Lang of Altruiste Bikes from New Brunswick, Canada. Lang won with a long-travel 29er that was truly unique among the bikes shown at the ...
2018 NAHBS: Best New Builder and Judge’s Discretionary Award
Before I get to our final two awards, I want to take a moment to once again thank my co-judges Tom Kellogg and Merlyn Townley. They were a delight to work with and were surprisingly easygoing ...
2018 NAHBS: Artisan
Good lord. When I decided that I’d give everyone the deepest, most in-depth look behind the scenes at how we judge the awards, my desire was just to illustrate the thinking that goes into ...
2018 NAHBS: Best Finish
I love this award because it’s the one where we are most easily surprised. It’s the one that allows for the broadest creativity, but it’s also the award where my sanity is most ...
2018 NAHBS: Best City/Utility Bike
The first thing I have to say about this category is that the intersection point between custom bikes and a daily driver is not entirely comfortable. In evaluating the bikes we—the ...
2018 NAHBS: Best Tandem
The tandem category was unfortunately thin this year. Santana brought an amazing carbon monocoque tandem, a truly fascinating bike and one that has no commercial peer. Unfortunately, it was made ...
2018 NAHBS: Best Track
Best track is a tough category. Because the bikes have a limited amount of componentry, there is a truly limited opportunity to do much to distinguish the bikes from one another. With this ...
2018 NAHBS: Best Road
In a way, of the various category awards, best road bike is Dickensian. It brings out both the all-stops-pulled efforts and the utterly phoned-in assumptions. Simply put, it’s not enough to ...