National Handmade Bike Show: Nice Lugs

What can I say, I have a thing for lugged bikes with distinctive head badges.

Click the thumbnails for high res photos. To fully appreciate these babies, you need to get in close.

Politically incorrect from Serotta, circa 1970s. His wife Lisa designed the head badge.

Lug with an integrated rear light from Herbie Helm.

Brett Horton signature bike.

Clean lines from Mosaic.

Rare bottom bracket lugs from Alchemy.

Nice edge treatment from Victoria Cycles.

Ditto for Engin Cycles.

Lugged wood by Sylvan.

I lost track of the builder of these lovely Art Deco inspired lugs.

 

National Handmade Bike Show 2011

Handmade with pride by master craftsmen, with details that make the difference. Dick and I traveled all the way to Austin to check out bikes built by master craftsmen at the NAHBS.

We ogled and gawked and I did my best to capture their beauty with my trusty iPhone 4. Take a look below. If you like what you see, get an even closer look at a gallery of nice lugs from this show.

Click on the thumbnails for high res photos. To fully appreciate these babies, you need to get in close.

Handmade in Bend, Oregon by Wade the Vulture of Vulture Cycles.

Peacock Groove from St Paul, complete with an Old Style front rack.

East meets West at Yipsan of Ft Collins, Colorado.

Also from Ft Collins, Black Sheep offers a 36er with beer bottle cage.

The Laplander pannier was so striking, I almost forgot to see who made the gorgeous wheel, Bilenky

A delightful bike by Sycip of Santa Rosa, California. That’s their logo on the custom Brooks saddle.

Boo Bicycles fabricates their bikes with bamboo grown exclusively for them on a plantation in Vietnam.

Curtis Inglis builds his Retrotec modern cruisers in Napa Valley, California.

Previous “best of show” winner Vanilla Cycles of Portland never fails to please.