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best road bike2.jpgNAHBS 2016 award-winning bikes: Breadwinner Cycles, English Cycles, Argonaut, Sarto and more
The North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) took place last weekend and showcased some of the finest hand-built bicycles from some of the finest frame builders and brands in the cycle industry.
And every year the organisers host the awards, handing out rosettes to the best bikes across a broad spectrum of categories. So without further ado, here are the winners.
Riding Discipline Division
This is the award for fully complete bikes, with paint and component choices a factor.
Best City Bike/Utility bike: Breadwinner Cycles
Best road bike: English Cycles
Best mountain bike: Alchemy Bicycle Company
Best cyclocross bike: Kent Eriksen Cycles
Best track bike: Sarto Antonio Cycles
Best tandem bike: Co-Motion Cycles
Construction Division
These are the awards for the best examples of bicycle building, from lugged to TIG welded frames and the best carbon fibre layup.
Best lugged frame: DiNucci Cycles
Best fillet frame: Rex Cycles
Best TIG frame: Kent Eriksen Cycles
Best Layup: Argonaut Cycles
Overall Design Division
This is the awards for complete bikes with a theme, concept or heritage story.
Best Artisan: DeKerf Cycle Innovations
Best finish: Caletti Cycles
People’s choice: Alchemy Bicycle Company
President’s choice and Campagnolo Award: Bixxis
Best new builder: Cryptic Cycles
Which bike is your pick of the show?
David worked on the road.cc tech team from 2012-2020. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds, and you can now find him over on his own YouTube channel David Arthur - Just Ride Bikes.
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Even so, the images can still be rescued a bit with a bit of adjustment to the levels in Photoshop.
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A beautiful sight for a tuesday morning, an example of when form and function meet with craftmanship and simplicity to make pure joyious harmony. Shame the photography is not of a similar standard. Happily the bikes still shine.
Just shows why you shouldn't leave photography to an amateur. Bikes are lovely but I can't see them. NAHBS should be shot and their entrants should demand some of the money back for such poorly overexposed photos to advertise their bikes.
Just went over the the NAHBS website to see if the pictures were better there. Oddly some are but still a lot are overexposed. Seems like the photographer set the exposure for the dark grey mechanical parts of the first bike he/she took and then left the settings there for the rest. As a result you get some clear views of bog standard Shimano drive trains and almost nothing of the lighter coloured frames where all the excitment should be.
As a cycling enthusiast these bikes warm my heart, but as a professional photographer the photos hurt my eyes. Embarrassing really.
Pity that "English" bikes can't get their flag right. Tut, tut.
That Blixxis bike has the cranks put together wrong. They are not at 180 degrees to each other.
One day, an Argonaut will be mine. Oh yes.
Lovely bikes but dear lord that is some crappy photography. I hope whoever took those images isn't charging.
Yes sorry about the photos, that is what the show PR people provided us with - would love to have been there to shoot the bikes myself
I'm sure you can expose an image properly!