Like handmade bikes? Who doesn't? This weekend is the Handmade Bike Show in Sacramento, CA (NAHBS)

You can go to the NAHBS and see the main bike makers that will be there. Moots, for one, would be of interest to me, because I met a traveller at the Portland Hawthorne Hostel who was riding one and we did a great Swampcast interview. What a cool bike!

I've visited with a few handmade bike makers. Lex of Villin Cycles was one. There's a good interview here in the Bike Zoo. Vanilla Cycles is another, in Portland. No interview because his huge poodle wouldn't behave long enough for us to even come in and take a look around! And, Ryan Aulton of 8ABC, now known as Pleasant Cycles is gearing up to make frames. 

Handmade bikes. What's the attraction? I mean, when you think about it, fine precision and tolerance are a lot easier to achieve using mechanized methods of production. But, handmade bikes make sure that errors sometimes overlooked on the assembly line are not overlooked.

What's our preference and experience? Handmade or mass produced? Which would you rather have? I'm about to go for a ride on my Trek 1000. I don't ride it much because I prefer my small batch bikes, like Ciocc. But, it is the most modern of my lot.

That's it for now. Hope you make it to the Handmade Bike Show. If you do, be sure and take lots of pix and post em here in the Bike Zoo.