On this week’s show, my guest is framebuilder Todd Ingermanson who is part of a relatively rare set of artisans known for crafting nearly any sort of bike. While many builders base their business on mostly (or even exclusively) doing just one thing, such as road bikes, Ingermanson, under his label Black Cat Bicycles, has […]

For my second new episode, I’m excited to welcome Todd Bertram, the head builder for R+E Cycles.  R+E got its start way back in 1973 when it was founded by Angel Rodgriguez and Glenn Erickson. Rodriguez and Erickson along with Bill Davidson can be credited with putting Seattle on the frame building map, so to […]

If you wanted to find the American who made the most profound impact on the ride of steel road bikes in the last 30 years, it would be hard to find a person more influential than Mark DiNucci. As an engineer for Specialized Bicycle Components, he was instrumental in creating the steel Allez which went […]

Of the many frame builders I have written about and interviewed over the years. Rob English of English Cycles may be one of the most creative. The fact that he works in steel fillet brazes his frames means that he’s unconstrained by the lug angles that typically curtail a builder’s creativity.  During the years of […]

On this week’s show, my guest is framebuilder Brad Bingham. He’s been called the finest TIG-welder in the world. Bingham rose to international prominence as a result of his work as a welder for Kent Eriksen Cycles. He has won the best welding award at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show for each of the […]

Phil Cavell wants to help you. He’s spent an entire career as a bike fitter, philosopher, researcher, teacher, racer, writer and connector of specialists across the cycling spectrum. His first book, The Mid-Life Cyclist, examined the current generation of middle-aged cyclists, literally the first generation to attempt to be good at bikes well past its […]

Allen Lim has spent his career guiding athletes to their best possible performance. From the UC Davis Cycling Team to grand tour riders, Lim’s career as an exercise physiologist was focused on helping solve problems athletes had. Nearly accidentally, Lim began making his own drink mix to help athletes, and out of that effort Skratch […]

This week I interview 2018 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 show. In this, our second episode, we talk to him about his background as a builder, how he got his […]

I’ve been interviewing framebuilders since 1992, the first time I called Richard Sachs up on the phone for a piece for Richard Fries’s wonderful regional rag, The Ride. My many interviews with framebuilders over the years have all lost something in translation from the conversation to the printed page (or pixels). I spent years dissatisfied […]

You don’t know Julian Wall. You’ve never heard of him. But if you’ve watched pro racing over the last decade plus, then you’ve seen his work. Not only is he co-director of London’s Cyclefit, one of the premier fit studios in Europe, but he also fits pro cyclists across the spectrum, including the EF/Easy Post […]