Reduce, reuse, recycle... the 3 R's of being a good citizen. So when my wife wanted a new bike for gravel roads and inclement weather, I tried to do the right thing and reuse an existing frame to build her a cross bike. Beautiful bike, it just didn't fit quite right....

Another installment of complete Independent Fabrication bicycles from owner submitted pictures swiped directly from IFrider.Independent Fabrication is a bicycle building company. We are not just a a builder of road bikes, nor just a mountain bike builder. We don't...

Slay the woods on a Ti Deluxe.Be a pimp in the woods on a purple nurple rigid steel Deluxe singlespeed.Go fast on a Factory lightweight.Go anywhere on an Independence.{Canti's need all they help they can get}Stay tuned for more sweet ride pics swiped from...

IFrider rules! (as does a muddy Ti Deluxe singlespeed)This XS fixie rocks pretty hard as well.So does an XS with Candy Absinthe painted carbon tubes.Or some Baby Blue pained lugs.Sterling silver headbadges make for a classy final touch.Cris from IFrider's personal...

Cris, our buddy across the Atlantic, has been working on the ifrider website for years now. It started, simply enough, as a place for IF owners to show off their bikes but has become an incredible resource for people to get an idea of how to paint their bikes and see...

From the depths of darkness a star is born...The titanium cyclocross bike we have been following through production has made it to our in-house photo studio. This fine specimen has been outfitted with nothing but the finest for a lucky Signature Cycles...

They've been waiting patiently all weekend for us to return.Not only does it take awesome people to build our bikes but it also takes some awesome machines. Our machines have about as much character as our people (minus the alive part).One of our Bridgeport vertical...

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Yet another fabulous build.

The titanium cyclocross bike we have been working on for Signature Cycles has arrived in the paint department where it has received its primer coat. Each bike that gets painted gets one of our seat tube handle inserts installed.This device is the only place that the...

If you currently own an I.F., or are just thinking of buying one, we are co-sponsoring a ride with the fine folks from NYC Velo (our newest NYC shop), on Saturday, November 7th. Show off your bike on a comfortable ride to Piermont, NY with like-minded individuals, and...

Now we saunter over to the finishing department where the titanium cross frame we have been working on for Signature Cycles gets all of its final treatments that will make it into a rideable bike. For example: the headtube gets its final ream and face.The seat tube is...

Now we are catching up with the titanium cyclocross frame we are building for Signature Cycles during the second alignment check on the alignment table. There are plenty of steps that I am skipping throughout the process..... but that is what future (and past)...

This is the first of a few postings following this frame through some parts of the production process. We have been working with Signature Cycles on this custom titanium cross bike, and they have agreed to send us the parts kit to do a pro build and photo shoot of the...

SHOW ME THE GRID!!!You might notice this frame from a previous post.Another stellar build. This time in the form of a Titanium Planet Cross.This thing is built to shred with some ballistic handbuilt wheels and sweet Challenge tubular tires.Once again, the small...

Ahhhh.... Las Vegas. The smell of recirculated, scented air conditioning inside and 110 degree sewer fumes outside...Three years ago, because of the nature of our business, we decided that it was in our best interest not to have a booth (we were right, by the way)....

This past saturday I hopped on my bike and headed downtown to witness what I hoped would be the first of many Boston crits. I've seen many alley cats held on the streets of Boston, but in my tenure as a cyclist, I had yet to see a sanctioned race put on by the city. I...

Grass track racing was popular in England in the 30's, 40's and 50's. We're not sure exactly how popular, but there are photos from the period, and grass track bikes were featured in some of the old British lightweight catalogs. Anyhow, inspired by an old photo, and...

Another fully built bike! This gives us the opportunity to show it off. There is nothing like a completed bike, fresh from the work stand. It's always nice to see that the bike is not viewed as just a vehicle to hang random parts on, but is approached as an entire...

Interbike, the largest bicycle trade show in the USA, is coming up next week.Although we won't have a booth there, we will have a few bikes on display in some of our friends booths.Keep an eye out for some special projects in the Whipperman booth, the EDGE booth and...

Yesterday we built up a Corvid for one of our customers.A fantastic build consisting of a full Dura Ace gruppo and some handbuilt wheels.As shown the bike came in at 16lbs, including water bottles, cages and pedals.This frame has unidirectional tubing paired with lugs...

One for each day of the long weekend.Fully custom geometry, tubeset and lugs. Those are two part titanium dropouts as well...Sterling silver headbadge.Factory installed inset headset.BB30 type bottom bracket...Ka-blammo! See you next week!