2013 NAHBS Awards – Entrants and Winners
Retrotec given award for 2013 NAHBS Best Mountain Bike
An exciting part of the 2013 North American Handmade Bicycle Show is the awards given to the best bikes at the event in their various categories. This year there were a ton of very creative and beautiful machines entered. After all of the votes were cast the awards were given to their respective builder for their creation.
People’s Choice, President’s Choice and Best of Show, which will be awarded 3 p.m. Sunday on the main stage. All of the Saturday award winners and entrants for each category are below.
2013 NAHBS Awards Winners
Best theme bike
People’s Choice
President’s Choice Award
- Matsuda Cycle Factory: LEVEL KEIRIN Racer
Best track bike
- Matsuda Cycle Factory: LEVEL KEIRIN Racer
Best of Show
- English Cycles: Best of Show
Best Carbon Construction
- Alchemy Bicycle Company: Alchemy Bicycle Co – Best Carbon Construction
Best Road Bike
- Bishop Bikes: Bishop Road bike
Best lugged frame
- Bilenky Cycle Works: Ephgrave Tribute Road
Best alternative material
- Boo Bicycles: Boo Glissando townie concept
Best city bike
- Cherubim by Shin-Ichi Konno: Cherubim Rambler
Best mountain bike
- Retrotec-Inglis Cycles: Retrotec Triple 29+
Best cyclocross bike
- Mosaic Cycles: Mosaic XT-1 Cyclocross Di2
Best titanium construction
- Kent Eriksen: Best Titanium Construction – Road Bike
- Black Sheep: UIMA Phat Bike
Best tandem bike
- Black Sheep: Jack’s Tandem
Best TIG frame
- Steve Potts Bicycles: Titanium 29er Hardtail
2013 NAHBS Awards Entrants
Materials Division
Best steel construction
- Castle Frameworks: Castle Frameworks, 650b, xx1, 120 fork
Best titanium construction
- Ti Cycles: Ultralight Road
- Kent Eriksen: Best Titanium Construction – Road Bike
- Steve Potts Bicycles: Road / Cross Bike
- Mosaic Cycles: Mosaic RT-1 Titanium Disc Brake Road Bike
- Black Sheep: UIMA Phat Bike
Best carbon construction
- KirkLee: KirkLee 3rd-gen Road Bike
- Guru Cycles: Photon HL
- Argonaut Cycles: Best Carbon Fiber Road Frame
- da Vinci Designs: da Vinci Designs Hand Built Carbon Fiber Tandem.
- Alchemy Bicycle Company: Alchemy Bicycle Co – Best Carbon Construction
- Appleman Bicycles: Mark’s custom carbon fiber road bike
Best alternative material (bamboo, aluminum, wood, magnesium, etc.)
- Boo Bicycles: Boo Glissando townie concept
- Paketa Magnesium Bikes: Paketa Scud Magnesium road bike with Campy EPS and Disc brakes
- Bamboosero: Booganda Road bike
- Gangl Custom Cycles: Gangl Aluminum/Carbon Climbing Bike
- Calfee Design: Calfee Bamboo Pro with LOOK Zed 2 Crankset and Campagnolo EPS Internal Integration
Riding Discipline Division
Best city bike
- Legacy Frameworks: Legacy Frameworks Model 2 Step-through
- Cherubim by Shin-Ichi Konno: Cherubim Rambler
- Co-Motion Cycles: CityView Di2 Alfine
- Silk Cycles: SINGLE SPEED / 【June bikes】
- Breadwinner Cycles: Arbor Lodge City Bike
Best road bike
- Kelson Bikes: Kelson Bikes – Custom Carbon Road
- Guru Cycles: Photon R
- Anderson Custom Bicycles, LLC: ACB Stainless Steel Road
- Anderson Custom Bicycles, LLC: ACB Road
- Cherubim by Shin-Ichi Konno: Cherubim RACER
- Bicycle Watanabe: Kohak ROAD
- Caletti Cycles: Caletti Cycles : Road
- bishopbikes: Bishop Road bike
- English Cycles: English Cycles Aero Road Di2
- Alchemy Bicycle Company: Alchemy Bicycle Co. Best Road Bike
Best mountain bike
- KirkLee: KirkLee 29er
- Groovy Cycleworks: Groovy Cycleworks Retro Klunker
- Boo Bicycles: Boo Bicycles BOOlossal fat bike
- Kent Eriksen: Full Suspension Titanium Mountain Bike
- Moots: Best Mountain Bike
- Castle Frameworks: Castle Frameworks, 650b, xx1, 120 fork
- Stinner Frameworks: Rigid 29er w/ Rohloff Belt Drive
- Retrotec-Inglis Cycles: Retrotec Triple 29+
- Breadwinner Cycles: JB Racer Mountain Bike
- Six-Eleven Bicycle Co: Lugged 650B Mountain Bike
Best cyclocross bike
- Geekhouse Bikes: Geekhouse Mudville CX
- Twenty2 Cycles: Ti 650b Rohloff Belt Drive Mountain-Cross
- Kelson Bikes: Kelson Bikes – Carbon/TI Cyclocross Bike
- Blaze Bicycles Inc: Blaze 29er
- Stinner Frameworks: Tapered Disc CX
- Retrotec-Inglis Cycles: Retrotec Half Monster cross
- Ellis Cycles: Ellis Cycles Strada Fango
- Mosaic Cycles: Mosaic XT-1 Cyclocross Di2
- Shamrock Cycles: Shamrock Cycles Celtic Cross
Best track bike
- Matsuda Cycle Factory: LEVEL KEIRIN Racer
Best tandem bike
- Paketa Magnesium Bikes: Paketa D2r Magnesium Tandem with S and S couplings
- da Vinci Designs: da Vinci Designs Hand Built Carbon Fiber Tandem.
- Co-Motion Cycles: Java Rohloff
- Calfee Design: Calfee Dragonfly Time Trial Tandem with Couplers, Di2 and Aero BarStems
- Black Sheep: Jack’s Tandem
Best utility bike
- Metrofiets: METROFIETS
- Ti Cycles: Ti Cycles
- Bicycle Watanabe: Kohak SPORTIF
- Bamboosero: Go Rider
Construction Division
Best lugged frame
- Vendetta Cycles: The Abyss
- Bilenky Cycle Works: Ephgrave Tribute Road
- Matsuda Cycle Factory: LEVEL KEIRIN Frame
- Gangl Custom Cycles: Reynolds 753 Bike
Best TIG frame
- Twenty2 Cycles: Bully Ti Fatbike
- Steve Potts Bicycles: Titanium 29er Hardtail
- Dean Bikes: Best tig Frame
Overall Division
Best new builder
- Vibe Cycles: The Lincoln
- Helavna Cycles: Helavna; bike made for women
- A-train Cycles: A-train Cycles Stainless 29er
- Lundbeck Cycles: Lundbeck Cycles City Bike
- Muse Cycles: Rhythm Roadster by Muse Cycles
- Bob Keller Frameworks: Bob Keller Frameworks
- Avery County Cycles: Best New Builder-Avery County Cycles
- Connor Wood Bicycles: Woody 29er Scorcher by Connor Wood Bicycles
Best finish
- Vendetta Cycles: Pre-V
- Victoria Cycles: 96r mountain frame
- Winter Bicycles: Mor Breizh
Best theme bike
- Donkelope: steampunk bike
- Stijl Cycles LLC: Iron Man
- Peacock Groove: The Red Lion from the VOLTRON animated series.
- Groovy Cycleworks: Groovy Cycleworks Feast of Flesh…Zombie Ti Road Bike
- Moots: Best Theme Bike–Moots/Imba Trail Maintenance Bike
- Caletti Cycles: Adventure Road
- Bilenky Cycle Works: WONDER WOMAN TRACK BIKE
- Six-Eleven Bicycle Co: 6Eleven 3Rensho Tribute Track Bike
- bishopbikes: Bishop Track Bike
- Silk Cycles: Silk Club Demontble
