When Schwinn and other American bike manufacturers started to move production to Taiwan and China a few decades ago, the simple motivation was the cost of labor: Bikes take a long time to make by hand ...

Chris Kudla's hobbies are woodworking and cycling. The mechanical engineer found a way to combine his two interests. He launched Normal Bicycles, making bikes with wooden frames, last year with his ...

Bike frames are most commonly made out of steel. If you’ve got money for something nicer though, you might go with something in aluminium or carbon fiber. [The Q] went completely off-the-wall with ...

Even in stock form, this Santa Barbara–built machine is smooth, lively and ready for long days with ample room to grow into a true dream build ...

Most of the bikes on Portland streets are built in factories, but a few are fully customized rides, from the wheels to the handlebars. Bicycle tinkerers from all over the world gathered at Zidell ...

What happens when you bring over 200 of the best bicycle builders and brands in the world and 400 handmade bikes under one roof and host a four-day show in the most bike-loving city in America? You ...

Carbon fiber is considerably lighter and more durable than aluminum, which makes carbon fiber bikes very in demand these days, when commuters are turning to (electrified) two-wheelers for their daily ...

Aiming to transform the world into a fully circular economy, igus (Cologne, Germany) is making the engineering concept and key components for bicycles made completely of recycled plastic available to ...

The Detroit Bikes factory sits on the West Side of the city near scattered abandoned homes and a junkyard full of rusted car parts. Inside, workers are taking test rides through the 50,000-square-foot ...