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Colorado Convention Center, Denver, February 22-24, 2013

In this issue

Register online now!
Exhibitor News
At the Races
What the Builders Say: Brad Cason of Kirklee Bicycles
Host Hotel News
From the Blogs
Support NAHBS sponsors!

Register Online for NAHBS

Online registration for NAHBS is now open and those that do so come out two-time winners! Not only do you save $4/day with online registration, but also you collect your door pass from the fast-flowing Will Call window rather than the glacial wait of the on-the-day registration windows.
For ticket prices, show hours and registration, click here.

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Exhibitor News

With 145 exhibitors, including seven new builders, and a flurry of applications still arriving, NAHBS is quickly heading for another full-capacity show. Most notable among the 2013 registrations are 16 from Japan.

Among other countries, four are coming from the United Kingdom, three from Italy, three from Canada and one from the Czech Republic.

31 exhibitors are from Colorado, which is about half the number of Californian exhibitors when NAHBS was in Sacramento last year. Only thing is, Colorado has about 5 million people compared to 38 million in Calfornia. Is this an indicator of the role bicycling plays in Colorado's state economy?

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At the Races

The UCI cyclo-cross world championships take place in Louisville, Kentucky, first weekend of February, and you will find few industry groups showing stronger support for this sport than the handmade frame builders.

One of the longest-standing supporters is Richard Sachs who has sponsored a team since 1981, and in recent years he brought in RGM Watches as a title sponsor.

More recently Don Walker started the Rio Blanco Racing team, which he sponsored with frames and equipment. This became the Don Walker Cycles Racing Team. Also in central USA, Tim O'Donnell's Shamrock Cycles has become a regular fixture on the Indiana 'cross circuit in the past three seasons.

On the west coast, a rash of builders support racing teams. Retrotec, Soulcraft, Caletti, to name only a few.

Builders are invited to contact us with follow-up stories if their frames were ridden in the 'cross worlds, and to all the NAHBS exhibitors who sponsor teams that we have not mentioned in this news item, let us know and we will mention you in a forthcoming NAHBS Newsletter.

From the blogs

Alliance Bicycles builds an adventure bike that is designed for pavement, dirt and gravel roads, light touring, and some singletrack too. This album on Anderson Custom Bicycle's facebook shows how he makes lugs. Appleman Bicycles is up and running with the Journeyman 3.1 frame fixture from Anvil Bikeworks. Watch this video to get a peek of the Baily Works studio. Nick Frey of Boo Bicycles talks about his experience at the Leadville 100 mountain bike race. The Caletti cyclocross team have almost completed their season, with Masters rider Jeremiah Kille off to Louisville, Kentucky, to compete in the world's, 2-3 February. Challenge Tires won the Editor & Readers' Choice Awards in Cyclocross Magazine issue #16. Stay caught up on Don Walker's cyclocross racing team on their new website. Watch an interview with Moots rider Kelly Boniface talking about her race season. New 44mm head tubes from Paragon Machine Works gives Steve Potts Bicycles plenty of welding room. Several sightings of YiPsan Bicycles have been made in the media recently, with a nice article in Mountain Bike magazine. Bicycle Times and Road Bike Action also wrote full-page reviews of Renold Yip's bikes post-NAHBS last year.

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That's all for this issue of NAHBS News. Thanks for taking a few minutes to read our latest, and feel free to forward this to any friends or business colleagues you think might be interested. And look out for the next issue in about two weeks' time!

Paul Skilbeck and Jayne Liu
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