A look at IF Grassroots enduro racer Ian Leitch's custom Independent Fabrication Ti Deluxe.Full article and more pictures HERE at bikemagic.com.Ian's other steed above.

Something exciting on the horizon.- t.e.

More to come....-t.e.

Only a week left for a chance to win this bike! We are still trying to close in on our $20K goal and each $10 ticket helps. The drawing will be on June 5th, that's next Saturday. Enter HERE.

We had a general idea as to what was in store for our six person team the next day. We heard it was going to be a hard 120 mile day in the saddle with about 40% of it taking place on gravel roads and around 11,000ft of climbing. Burgers seemed like a good idea, even...

We just finished a couple of frames for our friends Brett and Edie from NYC Velo.These frames will be ridden on their much touted cross country honeymoon. You can follow their progress at their blog once they get going HERE. The also feature front and rear rack and...

Everywhere has them, some hidden, some in plain sight. They are the places where things accumulate. When you have been in the same location for about 13 years things just happen.I don't even see the details when I look at these spaces, but today I noticed them. There...

It was not as warm and nice as it was the day before. It started raining early morning making for tough conditions by the 9am start.Here we are pre race.And here we are post race.I'm pretty sure this is Chris Wurster's Thor helmet. One of our grassroots guys. And he...

A few weekends ago myself, Leah, Ben Frank and Joel Bartell, two of our grassroots racers, rolled out to the Darkhorse Single-Speed-A-Palooza in Windsor, NY. It was a 25 mile single speed only MTB race which was held in Stewart State Forest. We packed up the van and...

Our man Carter in PDX needed a bike to bang around town on. It just seemed wrong that he didn't have one, living in the bike Mecca and all.So we put together this little buddy for him. Well, it's not so little... he's a big dude.Carter has helped us out with many a...

Calling all Independent Fabrication devotees and riders! Independent Fabrication, and IFrider.com, are gathering this summer to celebrate all of the owners who live, love, and ride IF. We are throwing an owners' only party and we want you there to celebrate being a...

Coover had a vision.A baby blue and white Titanium Deluxe.Coover sent us many cookies.Coover sent us rice crispy treats.Coover bribed us.Even though he didn't have to.Now we are full of cookies and treats....... and Coover's bike is in the mail.We're all hoping that...

Okay, close your eyes and imagine this: a bicycle frame and fork painted Velocity Yellow on the front faded to Hot Pink on the rear with yellow on green decals. Ewww, right?Let me be honest here folks. I'm not a big fan of fades. If you're a firefighter and we're...

This is Leah's Titanium Deluxe. It is an all-out race bike from one of our former racers.I remember welding the daylights out of this frame. Everything about it is super-duty.The burl factor is very high with this frame.Although she has it set up as a singlespeed...

This thing is big.One might even say gargantuan.Although we have made many bigger bikes it's rare that we fully build them up in-house. The size of the frame really makes those 700c wheels look small.IF steel cross fork set up for Paul Racer brakes. Shotpeened finish....

Finnbarr's newest version of a singlespeed commuter, well sort of. It's a singlespeed now but he's got some options for gears in the future.The orange accent color is Hemi Orange, the same orange from the General Lee. I see this color making a comeback.Many of the...

After what seems like weeks of torrential rains, finally a warm sunny day. So what do we do?... Leave work early and ride! Above we have The Shredders: Joe, Tyler, Leah, Clint and Finn. Each of us on our fully rigid singlespeeds, two 26'ers and three 29'ers.This time...

Headed to Portland for some racing with Molly Cameron of Portland Bicycle Studio, our newest fit studio on the west coast. GO MOLLY!!!

Northern California is a hot bed of IF enthusiasm, and most of it is due to Studio Velo, our dealer in Mill Valley. Scott, Colin and Chris at SV have been building a community of devoted cyclists based on superior product and service, and a genuine passion for the...

The realm of the color slingers.Almost all of our bikes pass through the Paint Department (minus the raw titanium and stainless steel bikes). The frames are received sandblasted and prepped for primer. After priming the action begins.This is one of the two stands used...

This is the land of the TIG torch slinger.Whether it's steel, stainless steel or titanium it is welded here. Within this station is everything needed to weld up a frame.This is the welding stand. It is centrally located within the welding station. It is grounded to...

Today my singlespeed steel Deluxe bike turns 10.This has pretty much all of the original parts on it from 10 years ago. I have gone through a few chains, freewheels, tires, chains, brake pads, and I think I had to put a new rim on the rear about 7 years ago, but my...

David's sweet rigid 29'er sold by our man in Germany: Ken Bloomer of IFbikes.de.(Ken has some cool stuff on his blog that is also worth checking out.)This bike just shipped out the other day. It's amazing to see how fast it came to life.David put a cool contraption up...