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NAHBS 2013 - Massive highlight gallery, part one

published 13 March 2013

From Argonaut Cycles to Groovy Cycleworks

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Argonaut Cycles has won NAHBS awards in the past for its steel bikes but it now works exclusively in custom carbon fiber.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Dean operations manager Rich Gardunia designed this townie for himself - and it just barely got completed in time for the show.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The split in the seat stay allows the belt to be inserted into the rear triangle.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Anyone else want a Feedback Sports toilet paper holder?(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Festka Bicycle Company goes full-pink with this road bike.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Pink was definitely the theme at the Festka Bicycle Company booth at NAHBS. This limited-edition Pablo XCR model is built with Columbus XCR stainless steel tubing. Paint was apparently inspired by Pablo Picasso.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Oh. My. God.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Hidden beneath the chrome paint on this Festka track bike is a 3T Palladio seatpost and Selle Italia saddle. Wow.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Form Cycles drew a crowd with this titanium fat bike.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Titanium stays wrap around enormous 45NRTH tires on this Form Cycles fat bike.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Apt name for sure.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Groovy.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Form draped this titanium 29er hardtail in an eye-catching paint job.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Welding on this fork is done in-house by Dean but the aluminum crown comes from White Industries.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This Dean 29er singlespeed features striking Exogrid carbon-and-titanium tubing.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Dean welds its own segmented titanium forks in-house.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Check out the twin top tube and down tube treatment on this custom Dean townie.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Dean managed to get this titanium road frame down to just 1kg (2.2lb).(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Dean's unique take on internal wire routing.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The 44mm-diameter head tube is neatly machined to shave weight.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Even the dropouts are drilled out in an effort to cut a few grams.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Dean does more conventional builds, too, such as this titanium hardtail - albeit with a gracefully curved top tube instead of the usual straight one.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The front end is reinforced with an ovalized top tube and a gusset beneath the down tube.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The reinforcing strut features a subtle curve.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This belt-drive full-suspension mountain bike uses a concentric bottom bracket pivot to maintain a constant chain stay length.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Dean machines these chain stay ends in-house.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Disc road bike, anyone? Form Cycles in Arizona is clearly ready.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Form Cycles does a rather simple interpretation of internal cable routing.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Gokiso's amazing hub - and the amazing tool kit used to service it.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This Groovy Cyclework 'zombie bike' doesn't use conventional paint. Instead, it's treated with a special ceramic coating normally used in firearms called CeraKoat.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Better hope the zombies don't have bikes, too, or else this advice won't be of much use.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Groovy Cycleworks says this paint job took 12 hours to complete.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

"Braaaaaiiiiiinnnnnsssssss…."(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Tasty paint job on this Groovy Cycleworks machine.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Even the stem gets the Cerakoat ceramic coating on this Groovy Cycleworks machine.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The undead are even reaching out of the seat tube.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Groovy Cycleworks even included a little cemetary scene on the down tube.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Someone we get the feeling that the rider of this bike won't quite feel this way.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Details abound on this Groovy Cycleworks 'zombie bike'.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This Groovy Cycleworks road bike was finished in yet another elaborate paint job.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The internally routed cables just barely clear the steerer tube inside.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Instead of a simple split, Groovy Cycleworks uses a removable T-shaped plug in case someone wants to use a belt drive.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This Japanese Gokiso hub is ungodly smooth. If you look closely, you can see that the flange is suspended from the hub body, which is in turn suspended from the bearings by another internal sleeve so as to eliminate the influence of spoke tension on the bearings.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

You can see right underneath the flange on this Gokiso hub.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

A closer look at the amazing internal design of Gokiso's ultra-low friction hub.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

So how low-friction are Gokiso hubs? The company balanced this wheel perfectly and all it took was a quick-release spring to set it into motion.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The aluminum freehub body and super-wide pawl on Gokiso's rear hub.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Gokiso's hubs require an incredible amount of machining.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This Gokiso hub doesn't look like much from the outside but the engineering that went into it is incredible.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Groovy Cycleworks had among its impressive collection at NAHBS this classically inspired 29er hardtail.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Groovy Cycleworks makes its own suspension-corrected titanium unicrown forks.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Bars with lots of sweep are becoming pretty popular these days but Groovy Cycleworks has been doing them for years.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This Groovy Cycleworks 29er was inspired by Frankenstein. Note the scary tire clearance at the seat tube.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This finish supposedly took upward of 20 hours.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

A short strut reinforces the non-driveside stays on this custom Calfee carbon mountain bike tandem.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Caletti was among several builders to show off a disc-equipped road bike at NAHBS.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The front end of this Caletti features a 44mm head tube housing an Enve tapered fork and a TRP Parabox mechanical-to-hydraulic conversion system.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

John Caletti certainly could have left this PRO Stealth Evo integrated bar and stem with its stock finish but it certainly looks a lot better painted to match.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

TRP Parabox calipers clamp down on Kettle Cycles SiCCC carbon composite rotors on this Caletti Cycles machine.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This Caletti Cycles "adventure road" machine is built with a mix of Columbus Life and True Temper OX Platinum steel tubing.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

An extra sleeve protects the painted seatpost on this Caletti Cycles rig.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Neatly done Campagnolo EPS internal wiring on this Caletti Cycles "adventure road" bike.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Great paint work on this Caletti Cycles "adventure road" fork.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

As usual, Craig Calfee brought a wide array of bamboo bikes to NAHBS.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Calfee's Bamboosero label doesn't just concentrate on lower-cost builds - the company can use the material for high-performance machines, too.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Because everyone needs an ultralight carbon fiber 29er tandem.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

John Caletti hangs up this gorgeous titanium hardtail after a photo shoot.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Great pinstripe work on this Brian Baylis tandem.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The spartan clearcoated finish on this Argonaut Cycles carbon road racer hides nothing.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Argonaut molds its own short-fiber carbon dropouts in-house.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Argonaut's carbon road flagship features an integrated seatmast.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

A painted-to-match Enve Composites stem caps off this Argonaut Cycles carbon road bike.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Blaze Cycles builds to order at its workshop in Moab, Utah.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The handbuilt lugs on this Blaze Cycles hardtail are meant to recall the slickrock formations that characterize the company's Moab, Utah location.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Brian Baylis brought this whimsical track tandem to this year's NAHBS.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Now this isn't something you see every day.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Brian Baylis had perhaps the most striking head tube "badge" we saw at NAHBS.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

California builder Brian Baylis is as well known for his paint as he is for his frames.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The tidy push-button controls and display unit on Shimano's new Alfine Di2 transmission.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

By switching to disc brakes, Calfee realized that you could then interchange 650b x 42mm wheels with 700x35c ones while only changing the bottom bracket height by 10mm(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Gloss lugs contrast with matte-finish tubes on this Calfee adventure road bike.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

44mm-diameter head tubes are commonplace nowadays but their roots can be traced back to the handmade crowd and Sean Cheney of Vertigo Cycles.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Yet another disc-equipped 'cross bike, this time from Co-Motion Cycles.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Co-Motion tucks the rear caliper neatly inside the rear triangle.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Co-Motion decked this tandem out with every available option.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The polished stainless steel rear dropout features a tidy disc mount and dedicated geometry for a Rohloff rear hub.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The Rohloff Snubber isn't designed to tension the Gates Carbon Drive belt. Instead, it acts as a guard to keep it from skipping under load. In normal operation, the roller doesn't even contact the belt.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Co-Motion built this showpiece with an extended, 44mm-diameter head tube. The power cable from the dynamo front hub is routed up through the steerer.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Co-Motion showed off this CityView townie with Shimano's latest Alfine Di2 electronic group and a custom machined cog for the Gates Carbon Drive belt.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Co-Motion discovered the hard way that the standard Gates Carbon Drive Centertrack cog wouldn't work with the new Alfine Di2 rear hub - so the company machined its own.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The Alfine Di2 battery is mounted beneath the down tube on this decked-out Co-Motion CityView townie.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Custom crowns offset the Cannondale Lefty fork leg just enough to clear the tire.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This Castle titanium hardtail could have been left bare but looks fantastic in this bold shade of blue.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Castle Frameworks removed the boot from this Gravity Dropper seatpost for a cleaner look but we don't recommend doing so on the trail.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The 42mm-wide 650b tires on Calfee's 'adventure road' bike look mighty comfy.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Calfee's latest integrated bar and stem setup includes a modified K-Edge mount for Garmin Edge computers.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Calfee's adventure road bike at NAHBS was equipped with Exposure's new dynamo front hub.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The Exposure Revo front light on Calfee's adventure road bike features an output port to power a rear light.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Now that's a head tube badge.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Calfee brought this stunning bamboo-tubed road racer to NAHBS.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Calfee built this bamboo-tubed road bike with a bottom bracket shell big enough to accept Look's humongous Zed one-piece carbon fiber crankset.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

The huge bottom bracket shell on this Calfee bamboo bike also allows for internal mounting of Campagnolo's EPS battery and brain - plus a handy charging port built right into the frame.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Calfee has adapted its slick internal battery setup for use on dropper seatposts.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Castle Frameworks out of Hailey, Idaho brought this beautiful steel road bike to NAHBS.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This Castle full-suspension mountain bike uses a Ventana rear end.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

Co-Motion's PeriScope system uses two telescoping sections to provide a huge range of adjustment.(Image credit: Jonny Irick)

This article originally published on BikeRadar

The 2013 North American Handmade Bicycle Show might have wrapped up a couple of weeks ago but BikeRadar isn't done showing you what was on tap at the Colorado Convention Center.

Hopefully you've got some time to kill because this huge image gallery is going to take you a while to get through! Stay tuned for more installments in the coming days.