NAHBS 2013

Just got back from the North American Handmade Bicycle Show where my friends Kent and Katie at Kent Eriksen Cycles ask me to build some display items for them so I went to work and used all my toys including the cnc router and laser engraver to create all of the wood items in their booth.  This is the first time that my work has been plastered all over the internet (by someone other than myself putting it out there anyway) so forgive me if I'm a bit excited about it..... but I can't help it.  The show brings together some of the best custom bike builders from all over and I have to say the craftsmanship they all displayed was amazing.... even if a bike wasn't my style I could still appreciate the workmanship that went into creating it and there were no bad bikes.  I was honored to be a part of it and allowed to show some of my work along with the amazing bikes that they build at Kent Eriksen Cycles.

Steamboat was well represented as Eriksen took the honor for Best Ti Construction and Moots took the honor for Best Theme Bike and Peoples Choice with their custom trail building bike.  Considering we are just a town of 10,000 or so it is great to have two custom builders in town.

Here are some of the internet articles I've found so far.

My favorite from Bike Radar:

Caption - "The titanium frames attracted most of the attention in the Kent
Eriksen booth but what about this wooden stand? Amazing"

MTBR photo gallery:
Nice to see our work as the lead photo.

Old Glory Article:

 
Bike Rumor photos:

Velo News
Our pictures start at #30

Some pictures I snapped of the booth:

 

Inlay was an alder base with walnut eagle and letters.  The red was jatoba. 

I engraved the "Bingham Design" on the top link.

Thanks for looking and hope everyone is doing well.  To see some more of the bikes at the show visit NAHBS because there truly are some amazing bikes out there.

Related resources

• Kent Eriksen Cycles