Our 2024 MADE Bike Show coverage from Portland, Oregon, continues with Part 05. Click on through below for selects from Artefact, Bantam, Destroy, Flatiron, Holland, No. 22, Prova, SaltAir, Seeker, and Significant Other.
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2024 Philly Bike Expo: Artefact, Básica Estudio, Shovel Research, and Significant Other
Rounding out our 2024 2024 Philly Bike Expo coverage by Brad Quartuccio, we have four phenomenal bikes from the Diversity Scholarship winners, ARTEFACT, Básica Estudio, Shovel Research, and Significant Other, all of which brought very unique and awe-inspiring work. We’re elated to feature some high res images of these on the web! Let’s check them out.
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Why Steel Will Always Be Real
Daniel Yang from Yang MFG, Artefact, and Neuhaus offers up a deep dive into steel’s mechanical properties, butting, and how bike tubes are made. Remember, for steel to stay real, it needs primer and a finish like paint or powder.
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Daniel Yang Visits Meriwether Cycles
We looked Inside and Out of Meriwether Cycles last week and now this week, Daniel Yang from Neuhaus Metalworks and Artefact takes us on a video tour of Whit’s shop and a local ride on Whit’s Ponderosa adventure gravel bike…
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Inside / Out at Meriwether Cycles: The Ponderosa, Portage Handles, and Adventure Bike Wayfinding
Whit Johnson’s handmade bike company, Meriwether Cycles, has been featured here at The Radavist periodically over the years. Recently, John spent a day at Whit’s small garage shop in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains of California and got out on a sunset pedal with him. Read on for a look inside and out of Meriwether Cycles, in addition to a preview of Whit’s new adventure gravel bike, the Ponderosa…
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Unboxing Sklar Bikes Tall Tales with Yang MFG
Daniel Yang from Neuhaus Metalworks, Artefact, and Yang MFG lends a helping hand to countless builders. From helping Meriwether design the complex bends for a unique fat bike to aiding in chainstay yoke and unique dropout designs, he has his hands in a lot. Including, unboxing a shipping container full of Tall Tale hardtails with Adam Sklar.
Watch as Daniel unboxes a box inside of an unboxing. Then he interviews, Adam Sklar, CEO/CMO/CFO of Sklar Bikes.
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The Dust-Up: I Will Never* Buy Another Bike That Isn’t SRAM Transmission Compatible
After spending a year going back and forth between bikes with and without SRAM Transmission, Travis came to a realization. In today’s Dust-Up, he writes about why Transmission compatibility will be mandatory on his next bike purchase, why that worries him, and why he needed that asterisk.
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Battle of the Custom Dropouts
Dropouts are critical to the design of the rear end of a bike. Daniel Yang from Artefact and Neuhaus recently took the big step of designing and manufacturing his own dropouts: the Artefact UDH dropout and the DR30.
What do you guys think? Which design do you prefer?
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Mastering Titanium with Yang MFG
On a recent visit to Taiwan, Daniel Yang from Yang MFG, Artefact, and Neuhaus Metalworks learned how one of the best titanium manufacturers, ORA Engineering, dimples their chainstays. In this video, he shows how he created a similar design using low parts.
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藝術 (Art), 手工藝 (Craftsmanship), 製造 (Manufacture): Taichung Taiwan is a Bicycling Manufacturing Mecca
Coming off our Dust-Up article on (Most) All Bikes are Handmade is a deeper dive… It is easy to take for granted how products from around the globe end up in our hands. When it comes to bicycles, many of us have no idea how they are made. Our Instagram feeds are filled with romanticized images of artisans building intricate frames one at a time, but what about the production bicycles that the vast majority ride? Much less information is available, leaving our imaginations to conjure up images of robotic welders and dirty, fast-paced production. This often leads to uninformed debates on where, who, and how products are made.
The authors of this article offer a unique perspective on bicycle manufacturing. Daniel Yang, a talented engineer working with Neuhaus Metalworks and his own brand ARTEFACT, is changing how artisan framebuilders build bikes through 3D printing and 3D modeling innovations. Adam Sklar has over a decade of experience building high-end custom bikes by hand. He recently brought his production to Taiwan, working together with factories to produce his signature designs. The factories and people you see in this article produce Sklar Bikes, which is why we were given the opportunity to share this experience with you all.
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VIDEO: The Future is Metal
Daniel Yang, designer/engineer at Artefact and Neuhaus Metal Works takes the stage at the 2024 Philly Bike Expo and expands on the notion that the world is cyclical: culture, design, art, and economics are on repeat. 80’s Steel – 90’s Aluminium – 2000’s Carbon fiber… and now… back to steel. It is time for the resurgence of the metal bike, a Metallic Renaissance…
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Radar Roundup: Tuloy Ang Laban Collection, 853 Cotic Escapade, Flat Top King Cage, ENVE Ride-Lifestyle, AirBell, Wizard Works and Raeburn, and Win Every Ride
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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Sturdy Progress: Inside / Out at Sturdy Cycles
Andrew stops mid-sentence, pauses, “ooooooh!…….. Oooooh…. oooooh!” his pitch rises to a maniacal school child giggle of surprise and wild childlike delight, like a two-year-olds first taste of cake. Visceral and uncontrollable joy. “Tom!?! Is this a prototype or is this a FUCKING!…. ok…. That’ll do it!” a long pause of wild-eyed observation glancing desperately around the room, eyes hungry for an affirming reaction but forced to settle for Tom’s grinning but nonchalant response of “yea, they’ve gotten lighter as well”. Another longer pause as dust from Tom’s stoic “yogi bear” response settles, a mumbled and affectionate “asshole.” The recording tapers off into minor expletives, mumblings, and the low noises people make to indicate affection for bits of metal when they’re together in sheds.