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Tomii Cycles Showcase: Fat Canvas for SRAM

This year was to be the first year Nao Tomii of Tomii Cycles was going to attend NAHBS. For a small builder like Nao, spending the kind of money it takes to pull a seat up to the table of the USA’s largest hand made bicycle show takes a lot of financial planning, so when NAHBS was postponed this year, Tomii Cycles wouldn’t be able to attend. Most builders display customer’s bikes at NAHBS and asking his clients to wait four more months for their bikes, especially during a pandemic was out of the question. I reached out to Nao and asked if we could display his bikes here at the Radavist, so this week, we’re doing just that…

NAHBS is not just a showcase for framebuilders. Many component manufacturers also have booths at the event, where they will feature various builder’s creations, decked out with their latest parts. This year, I set Tomii Cycles up with SRAM, who used this beautiful peach Fat Canvas to model this Force and XX1 “mullet” AXS group, silver Zipp components, and 650b Zipp 303 wheels.

The custom racks, Ultradynamico tires, Paragon thru-axles, and Brooks Cambium served as the finishing touches.

The end result is one to drool over…