Rue Sports is always good for interesting carbon frames
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These look like steel lugs to the casual observer…
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…but it's actually all carbon.
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Yup, here, too.
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The dimensions of the seat stays
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The classic-looking horizontal dropouts
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Brent Ruegamer fitted the Retro Grouch
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Yes, kids, this is how people used to shift their bikes.
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The single pivot brakes still look nearly new.
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Alloy cogs are lightweight
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Ruegamer also built a fixed gear rear end
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Cable stops are built right into the frame
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Sheena Ruegamer is apparently also handy
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Edgar and Luis Chavez have opened up their own carbon shop
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Chavez's Roadrunner Velo frames
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The Roadrunner Sprezzatura
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Even the seatpost was painted to match.
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The Roadrunner Velo Cañada
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Cable stops are cleanly integrated
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What else would it be? This is NAHBS!
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Slovakian builder Brano Meres
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Apparently Delta 7 isn't the only company
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Wow.
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Mares integrates the hard points
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The truss structure might be efficient
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How well will this hold up?
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Cable stops are neatly built in.
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Mares has also experimented with bamboo
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…although his latest creation
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Mares is also dabbling
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Calfee outdid last year's longhorn steer bike
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What the???
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Calfee used his hemp fiber truss technique
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Calfee uses the decidedly unconventional material
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More hemp fiber is used for each frame joint.
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The chainguard is made from hemp fiber composite plate
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Yup, even the kickstand is bamboo.
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One Independent Fabrications employee
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This is easily the nicest BMX frame we've ever seen.
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IF president Matt Bracken
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…and lo and behind, he finally built one.
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The Roadster wears another variation
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Another IF employee built
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…while another's dream was for a lugged steel track bike.
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Damn, that looks nice.
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A custom-painted saddle tops it off.
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This IF bike was fitted with S&S couplings
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The couplings were a popular feature
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IF track machines were also on display
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And yet another custom-painted saddle.
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IF's stunning XS titanium and carbon road bike
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Subtle grey on grey detailing
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Jim Zoellner of Roark Titanium
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Most of the bike is titanium…
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…but the wheels are CNC machined from aluminum.
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Butterflies, anyone?
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The chainguard is titanium, too.
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Check out the neat water jet-cut Roark logo
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The rear hub encases a SRAM i-Motion internally geared hub.
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Apparently Zoellner's daughter likes butterflies!
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A gutted pair of Crank Brothers Candy pedals
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Jeff Jones is a local Oregon builder
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Supposedly the peculiar arrangment of frame tubes
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Jones' truss fork is now available
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Jones is also well-known for his H-Bar…
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…but a new one-piece version
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Clean workmanship like this
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Jones also produces this singlespeed cog.
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A bit of reinforcement
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If you have one of these at your house
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Jones modifies King rear hubs
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Unfortunately, though, you do have to give up a few cogs.
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Jones even goes so far as to build
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Steel tubing is carefully bent
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The front derailleur line
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Bruce Gordon confused a few onlookers
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…which was intentionally built
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Gordon faithfully reproduced his signature lug shapes
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The matching stem
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Brian Baylis is an accomplished builder in his own right
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This is from Bruce Gordon?
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Gordon walked away from NAHBS 2007
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Carl Strong blended steel, titanium, and carbon
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Reynolds 953 was used for the down tube
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Pseudo-lugged construction holds the seat cluster together.
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Seat stays are shock absorbing titanium.
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The logo is cleverly left bare
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Another fantastic paint job
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Colorado builder Black Sheep
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The matching truss fork
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Burly fork tips
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Sliding dropouts
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Sweptback handlebars
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This Black Sheep head tube badge…
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…matched up with this one on the seat tube.
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Black Sheep's full-suspension design…
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…swapped a conventional main pivot
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Dropouts are likely convertible
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More swept bars could be found here.
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Fox Racing Shox is a familiar name in the MTB world
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Spectrum Powderworks
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Chain stays on this Black Sheep are heavily bolstered.
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Got some errands to run?
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A custom-etched Rohloff hub graces the back end.
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A Rotor crank is an odd spec for this kind of bike
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Moots' snow bike made another appearance.
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Riders living in the snow belt
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How much traction do you think this thing gets?
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This massive box-style chain stay yoke
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More sliding dropouts can be found back here.
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Moots offered its own take on the townie bike
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Jeez, did anyone have a straight bar here?
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A generator front hub
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Wires were run interally for a clean look.
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Moots also ran the shifter lines
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Sure, why not?
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Long-time titanium builder Kish Fabrication
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Excellent finish work by Spectrum
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Tom Ritchey doesn't do custom frames anymore
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Potts offers Ritchey's excellent BreakAway
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The system makes for a clean look
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Ric Hjertberg of FSA also has a side project
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Hjertberg explains the benefits of wooden rims
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Hjertberg was also showing off a new Morizumi
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The Morizumi machine occupies a very small footprint
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Spokes are cut here…
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…and threaded here.
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Swapping between 14g and 15g
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