On a recent afternoon, the Ground Up garage suddenly filled with an eerie lavender glow that meant Eric Baar had started building another frame.He leaned over a web of metal tubes, welding mask down, ...

There are two answers to the question why Rudolf (Rudi) Jung fabricates bicycle frames. The first is that he stands a lanky 6’3″ tall. While people with bodily dimensions that aren’t too far on either ...

It’s a given for bikes to hang in the windows of bike shops. In art galleries, not so much. Increasingly, though, bikes are being viewed as works of art. They may not be in the realm of van Gogh or ...

Automation comes to the bike industry with the Mokumono bike. When Schwinn and other American bike manufacturers started to move production to Taiwan and China a few decades ago, the simple motivation ...

We’ve partnered with Oregon Manifest‘s The Bike Design Challenge, a competition to create the ultimate urban utility bike. Over the next few months, we’ll be publishing the diaries of five design ...

John Sotherland sells bikes for a living. He builds them for pure satisfaction. The workers in his shop, BicycleWise and Sports Fitness in Whitewater, know when he’s spent the morning in his workshop, ...