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Interbike 2003
Las Vegas, USA, October 10-14, 2003
Steel is real
By Paul Mirtschin and Robert Gilbreath
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Independent Fabrications still offer the shop-bought custom-built bike that has made them a legend in the mind of some of America's mountain bike community. Independent Fabrications take the measurements your local dealer makes from you, and builds a custom bike to your exact needs; the sort of bike you only need to buy once.
And with some of the top-dollar options available, a bike you will only be able to afford once. Custom paint styles, as well as a sterling silver head tube badge priced at US$100, are available if the bank manager will allow it.
Like Independent Fabrications, Vicious Cycles makes custom steel mountain bike frames for the discerning buyer. Vicious Cycles also offer some of the wildest paint schemes around, including a hand painted Van Gogh "Starry Night" look that has to be seen to be believed.
Both Independent Fabrications and Vicious Cycles are making the move to carbon fiber rears on their frames, due to the demand from the public for some carbon options.
Photos
Images by Robert Gilbreath/Cyclingnews
- Vicious Cycles MTB Frame steel with carbon seat stay; The "Electric Warrior"
- Just some of the cool paint schemes available from Vicious Cycles
- Titus supplied the rear on this Vicious Cycles frame
- Fat-tire Fury; a Vicious Cycles snow-bike
- The ultimate touring bike; Brooks leather saddle, bar end shifters, a mix of Ultegra and XTR and wooden fenders made by River City Cycles
- The front-end of the Independent Frabrications tourer
- Independent Frabrications road bike with a carbon rear
- A prototype full-suspension frame from Independent Frabrications
- Scott Montgomery, son of the founder of Cannondale and recently let go from the Cannondale corporation was spotted at Interbike today, scoping out future business investments.
- Looking down at part of the expo
- Bikes as far as the eye can see
- Some people took parking to extremes
- Schwinn showed the show they are back
