Naked Bicycles & Design - News

News Addition: Bike Rumor

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:00:11 +0000

Thankyou Bike Rumor! An article about Naked and NAHBS 2012

News Addition: NAHBS 2012 - Show news

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:03:54 +0000

A very nice article written by Sophie Ballo for NAHBS 2012. The countdown has begun….

News Addition: NAHBS is just around the corner

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:11:18 +0000

A few weeks back we started a new blog on this website called, The Road to NAHBS. The link for it is over on the menu bar to the left. We’ve been updating it quite frequently. Check it out!! In a nutshell, here’s the overview:

Naked Bicycles, The ROAD TO NAHBS, is dedicated to our journey to NAHBS 2012. This year we are embarking on an unusual project. We are RIDING our show bikes from N. California to NAHBS in Sacramento. We really want to make a meal out of the prep and journey of getting to NAHBS.

In the days to come, we’ll be documenting about the bike designs and build, choice of trip equipment and clothing, the trip itself, the people we meet, the places we stay and finishing off on the last day of NAHBS. We hope to show the amount of work and passion that goes into handbuilt bicycles, not simply the product.

The truth is, our bikes are built for very real and grand adventures. We name our bikes “adventure” bikes because that is exactly how our customers use them.

And so begins our own adventure. Hope you’ll tag along. The Road to NAHBS. – Sam and Andrea

News Addition: Trevor's Stainless Daily Adventure

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:41:51 +0000

Fresh from the shop is this stainless daily adventure bike for Trevor. It’s a tough bike made to ride all year round. Featuring KVA MS2 stainless tubing, custom stainless rack, fenders, disc brakes, Wound-up carbon fork, FSA Metropolis bars and Brooks bits.

News Addition: Marianne's Road Adventure

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:05:16 +0000

Fresh from the shop is this road adventure bicycle for our very dear friend Marianne. It’s made with feather-strong steel and Shimano 105 group. She’s going to ride the hell of out this thing!

News Addition: Scott's Geared 29'er hardtail

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:50:50 +0000

It’s a 29′er, steel, and geared. This bike is going places. First off Beaver Lodge Lands on Vancouver Island, BC, next Australia.

News Addition: Baby Ganoush - the very last one...

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:32:20 +0000

FOR SALE!!! NAHBS 2011 in Austin, TX, we made 6 limited edition Baby Ganoush bicycles. 5 left the building, we have 1 left. Here she is just waiting for the right person to own her. Frame size: small to medium (about a 54).

Here are the details: Frame and fork: steel with curved top tubed, seat stays and chainstays; TIG welded; A-hole with polished stainless bumper strips and B-hole; eccentric dropouts; disc brake; custom steel fork with twin plate fork crown; semi-integrated seatmast. Main Components: handcarved Brooks saddle, FSA Metropolis bars and post, Paul Component single mini-brake lever and hubs, custom Walnut Studio leather sew-up grips, Velocity burlwood rims, Schwalbe 35mm Delta Cruiser Path Racing Tires, classic Gimondi crank, Brooks double straps for pedals. Price is $4495 . Contact us for more info.

News Addition: Sophie, our daughter, made her first bike!

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:49:33 +0000

She did it! Sophie, our super stellar daughter, helped with the design, mitering and filing tubes, braze-ons, welding (well, actually watched that part), prepping for paint, and building up the bike. That is pretty damn awesome for a 14 year old!! Way to go Sophie, we are super proud of you! Now go ride your bike.

News Addition: The Christmas Unicycle

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:22:36 +0000

Off I went, to the post office, expecting to find a few bills, maybe a couple christmas cards. What I found instead was a package from E-bikes/Grin Technologies in Vancouver, BC. We receive packages through the mail fairly regularly. What was different this time was the picture on the outside of the box distinctly looked like a ….. unicycle. Nah. Couldn’t be.

Oh hell yes it was!! Sent from Justin and AnSo. Just a bit a background on these two crazy kids. They both run/own ebikes and Grin Technologies. Justin and AnSo visited us this summer on their E-bikes (electric assist bikes), riding from Vancouver to Quadra Island. Justin rode his electric bike across Canada a few years ago successfully completing the trip from British Columbia to New Brunswick. AnSo is a unicycle fiend. Sam recently saw her while he was mountain biking on the Sunshine Coast of BC. She rode her unicycle all the way there! From Vancouver to the Sunshine Coast!! and it was November!!!

Needless to say, we were stoked! A unicycle. A Nimbus unicycle. Now, I’ve never ridden a unicycle successfully before. By successfully I mean, stayed on for more than a milli-second. Sam’s attempts were more daring.

We finally have a unicycle. Woo! Thankyou to Justin and AnSo!

News Addition: NEW WEBSITE!!

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:45:36 +0000

Phew! Here it is, our new website. There are a couple more pages that need to be added, but after the near death experience of our old website, we thought, it’s best to get this one up and out there. Many many thanks to Todd Heckeler of www.consumedesign.com . He is a website guru. If ever you need a web guy, he’s the man.

Seeing how we lost alot of our blog info from the old site, I thought the easiest way for people to catch up with where we are at is to check out the facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Naked-Bicycles/369553210165

Lots of things to look at!

All our best for the New Year coming,

The Naked Bicycles Team – Andrea, Sam and Aran