2024 MADE Bike Show Part 01: bRad, Caletti, Chumba, Hot Salad, English, Prova, Rare Earth, Slow Southern Steel, Stinner, Tomii – Josh Weinberg & John Watson | The Radavist | A group of individuals who share a love of cycling and the outdoors.

We’re kicking off our 2024 MADE Bike Show coverage from Portland, Oregon, with Part 01. Inside is some serious heat! Continue reading below for selects from bRad, Caletti, Chumba, Hot Salad, English, Prova, Rare Earth, Slow Southern Steel, Stinner, and Tomii…

English Cycles Gravel Bike

Rob English is an incredibly talented and versatile bike fabricator. From wild time trial machines to vintage-inspired rigs, like this Peugeot-esque truss fork gravel bike, he’s up for pretty much anything. For this year’s show, Rob brought a collection of builds, and this gravel bike really caught our eye(s). Like Rob’s customer this bike was made for, many of us had a classic 70s Peugeot road bike to use as commuters or fixie conversions.

This gravel bike utilizes Cane Creek’s rim eeBrakes and a front truss fork to accommodate wide tires while using thin tubing. This customer also requested trussed chainstays to match the fork, to which Rob happily obliged. Other bling includes Onyx hubs, 5DEV aero changing with titanium crank arms, Cane Creek cockpit, and custom dropouts to accommodate Mavic Speed Release axles. The frame bag is fully magnetic for easy on and off from the steel tubing.

See more at English Cycles

Bradford Smith (bRad) ‘Cross/Road

Bradford Smith has a long career building bikes with some legendary brands, including Speedvagen, Geekhouse, and, most recently, Stinner Frameworks. While working for other builders, he’s also made bikes under his own brand name bRad. Brad’s frames are usually ‘cross bikes but can trend toward gravel or road disciplines.

This ‘cross frame was made for Brad’s partner Marie, who primarily uses it as a single speed during cyclocross season, thanks to the White Industries eccentric bottom bracket. During the off-season, she’ll install gears and a wireless derailleur to ride it as a 1x skinny tire road bike that may or may not have fenders.

The fairly utilitarian frame design features notable embellishments such as the stainless steel sunflower and heart head badge emblems, Chris King wheelset, and Carrizo carbon fork from Stinner. Bradford powder-coated the frame himself, using a gold color that vibes with the sunflower head badge motif.

Hit up Bradford on IG if you’d like to chat about a bRad

Caletti Cycles Disoriented Scrambler Flat Bar Gravel Bike

John Caletti wasn’t at the 2024 MADE Bike Show. He wrecked while on a ride in Santa Cruz, California after hitting a patch of gravel on a technical road descent. Thankfully, he’s alive and is out of surgery, walking on his own two feet but his recovery is far from over.

The Caletti team worked on completing his show bikes for him and the one that caught our eye was this Disoriented Scrambler. A flat bar gravel bike with clearance for a 2.3” tire and asymmetric seat stays and top tubes. A beautiful segmented fork completes the build.

There’s a GoFundMe for John.

Send John a get well soon note at Caletti Cycles.

Chumba Cycles Cenote Suspension Gravel Bike

Chumba Cycles brought a number of stunning titanium bikes, all displaying the brand’s in-house anodizing finishing. The Cenote is its newest gravel model, specced with a 40 mm travel gravel suspension fork and clears a 700 x 50 mm tire. The MADE showcase model displays a cenote-inspired anodizing job, resembling the limestone sinkholes found throughout Texas Hill Country.

Cenote rounds out the Austin, Texas-based framebuilder’s all road and gravel offerings, for those looking for a bike with traditional gravel bike handling and geometry but with a little more traction and control on the front end.

Eagle-eyed viewers will catch the new Industry Nine gravel road stem. Expect more information on the Cenote as events warrant.

See more at Chumba Cycles.

HotSalad Bicycles Titanium Fixed Gear

B from Hot Salad brought a stunning titanium street fixed gear at the MADE Bike Show this year. The bike’s seat stay bridge is hallowed out on the sides of the seat stays, offering a subtle, yet beautiful detail to B’s precision fabrication skills.

Designed around a comfortably-sized road tire, the fixed gear uses Oddity Ti riser bars and a Paul Components Boxcar stem, with the CNC logo infilled with paint. The same treatment is applied to the hubs and Custom Appleman cranks with the Hot Salad logo applied rounds out the build.

We really enjoyed B’s fun anodizing and masked/blasted logos on the downtube.

See lots of stunning bikes at HotSalad.

Prova Cycles Prototype Full Suspension

John hinted at a bike with “more bounce per ounce” in his Prova Cycles Shop Visit post last week and yesterday, Mark from Prova unveiled his titanium full suspension. This project has been in the making for over five years and features a Prova-welded front titanium triangle with a 3VO aluminum swingarm on the rear.

What’s ingenious about this bike’s front triangle is its reliance on 3D sintered titanium parts, made in New Zealand, and that it only takes Mark forty minutes to weld it, including twenty minutes for purging setup. These parts cost a couple of grand alone but Prova is able to save time in exchange for the hefty upfront cost on the frame parts.

Since this is the first working prototype of the bike, Mark wants to put some hard trail miles in on it before finalizing details such as pricing. As such, he’s taking it to Downieville, California after the show…

Follow along at Prova Cycles.

Rare Earth Cycle Rascal Saint

The Rascal Saint is the third bike from the new builder we’ve featured in as many years on The Radavist. It’s a 140 mm travel hardtail featuring a very unique silhouette, internal routing, custom one-piece bar/stem, in-house powder coat, and a “flame patina” copper bash guard on the underside of the down tube. The lines on this bike are wild!

We loved the powder coat color accented by the copper hits. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you, that’s a rare, silver, prototype Vivo 12-speed derailleur is hanging off the back. These made in the USA mountain bike mechs are on the way from the small manufacturer! Expect a closer look in the future…

Check out more at Rare Earth.

Slow Southern Steel (SSS) Warhorn Hardtail MTB

Hailing from Fayetteville, AR, Jesse Turner currently builds three bike models (road, gravel, and hardtail MTB). Each is custom and built to order. This is his personal Warhorn hardtail, built around 120 mm front suspension with clearance for 2.6 tires. Tot overly geometry boundary pushing in any one area; the Warhorn is meant for all-around pursuits, from trail riding to ultra-endurance events. SSS chainstay yokes are all unique, often featuring drillium, and this one, in particular, has an asymmetric plate abutting the bottom bracket.

Jesse was a BMX rider when he was younger, which impacted his componentry choices on this build, including the Odyssey stem and Profile Designs hubs and cranks. Currently embracing flame designs, Jesse enlisted fellow Fayetville maker Buckhorn Bags to make a custom emblazed wedge bolt-on frame bag. Handlebars were also made by a local friend, which Jesse then polished and clear coated.

See more at Slow Southern Steel

Stinner MADE Single Speed Gravel

For the second year, the official MADE bike is a collaboration build. MADE showrunner Billy Sinkford partnered with Stinner Frameworks to dream up this versatile super commuter/gravel speedster. It features Stinner’s UDH dropouts and White Industries eccentric bottom bracket that can be set up geared or singlespeed, along with a custom steel fork and front rack. It’s 100% metal from fender to fender.

No detail was overlooked – everything from the Paul Component brakes, levers, and stem to the BTCHN bars and seatpost, and the White Industries hubs, and SimWorks fenders are Cerakote black. The frame itself is a wet paint upper finish faded into a Cerakote lower portion.

See more at Stinner Frameworks

Tomii Cycles Flat Bar Gravel / Throwback MTBs

Call them flat-bar gravel bikes or vintage-inspired mountain bikes, but this Tomii duo of framesets is simply stunning. Built for the same customer, Nao Tomii hardly left any part of these bikes untouched. Each was inspired by a different vintage mountain bike – a late ‘80s Mantis Valkyrie X-frame and ’90s GT triple triangle.

Perhaps some of Tomii’s most stunning work, both bikes are adorned with throwback-styled parts, like the Shimano bar-end shifters mounted on Paul Thumbie mounts, Racer calipers, double chainrings, and upright handlebar positions. Because the brake calipers are so close to the frames’ seat tubes, Nao devised an elegant cross-routing setup through custom brazed guides to achieve proper lever/caliper actuation.

In the usual Tomii style, the bikes feature etchings and ornamentation inspired by the desert Southwest. Jordan Low Paint did all the finishwork, from the detailed stainless saguaro embellishment fill to the multi-colored frames themselves.

And, if all of the detailing wasn’t enough, these bikes offer a sneak peek at the upcoming Tomii X Simworks Faraway tire by Panaracer. Likely available for purchase later this fall, the Faraway tires will come in two colors and one size (700 x 40c), featuring Tomii’s favorite saguaro design.