The MADE bike show always seems to come so quickly each summer, and it’s over in a blink. From the media and exhibitor side, it really is a whirlwind. We’re doing our best to document and share as many interesting bikes as possible, while the framebuilders try to accommodate our requests and field questions from the public. Everyone, from the volunteers who direct traffic to the MADE staff who make sure the event runs smoothly, deserves a big pat on the back. There are a lot of moving parts to put on a show of this size, and it feels like a well-oiled machine at this point.

Although we’re down to our final day of the 2026 MADE bike show, we still have a whole lot more to share. We’re launching into our third roundup of bikes and builders with a special collection of finds from over the weekend. Part three features bikes and other finds from Sour Bicycles, Hammondmade, Monē, Retrotec + Pass and Stow Racks, Mostly Forever, Teravail, Smith Optics, Oddity Cycles, and Doom Bars. Let’s get into it!

Oddity Cycleslink

Fort Collins, Colorado

Sean “Burnsey” Burns of Oddity Cycles has always treated MADE visitors to something special. I still think about the chromoly-and-titanium singlespeed he brought to the inaugural show, which he built to celebrate Oddity’s 10th anniversary. If you’re a fan of intricate curves, wacky truss forks, and functional artwork, then keep an eye on Oddity’s work.

Burnsey brought a stunning titanium gravel bike that MADE director Billy Sinkford commissioned for the show. He explained that it has slightly racier angles but townie-bike vibes, since it will be Billy’s daily driver and will likely get a front basket and fenders at some point.

There are so many unique details to get lost in. The single-crown truss fork is a V2 prototype of Oddity’s Squid Fork, with updated front blades that wrap into the steerer tube. The little curved bridges above the three-pack mounts create some flow, and Burnsey is looking forward to testing them to see how they compare to the originals.

The bike has a klunker-style top tube, with seatstays that become the lower twin tube. From the side, it all looks like a single tube, but as you move around the bike, there is some real dimension and intricacy that is especially challenging to achieve when forming titanium tubes. The frame features a playing-card graphic scheme, presumably inspired by Billy’s 15-year career as a magician. Burnsey isn’t currently taking orders for custom bikes, but if you’re interested, get in touch, and he can put you on a call list when a spot opens up.

Mostly Foreverlink

Bend, Oregon

We first met Max Keegan at the inaugural MADE bike show, where he displayed his steel hardtail designed specifically for the Oregon Timber Trail. His brand name, Mostly Forever (or MF for short), is partly inspired by his desire to make bikes for years to come. Since our first visit, he made a titanium version of his Oregon Timber Trail rig, but we were most interested in what he described as “his version of a gravel bike.”

Max isn’t a fan of drop bars, so his gravel bike has flat bars and a long reach but gravel-esque geo. It has a steeper headtube angle than the bikes he usually rides, and this project also introduced him to multiple gears, marking a departure from his devotion to singlespeeding. Surprisingly, Max now finds he runs himself into the ground faster than when riding with one gear, because the gearing doesn’t force him to coast between pedaling.

Max’s gravel bike has quite a few interesting details, such as 3D-printed yokes he designed himself and a custom fixed rear dropout. Much of what he has been working on has focused on improving production time and efficiency, because he’s constantly looking for ways to spend more time outside. He makes and sells handlebars on his website, so he whipped up a custom bar with an integrated accessory bar on top. The stem was machined in Maine by an old BMX friend, Derrick Girard, and it’s finished with MF’s logo.

One of the most distinctive details was the peculiar-looking headtube badge, which Max explained is made from a leftover piece of metal from when he cuts out a section of the bottom bracket. Each one is unique. Max also had his ultralight titanium cradles and accessory clamps on display, which use hinged clamps and 3D-printed components to work on a variety of handlebar setups.

Pass and Stow Rackslink

Oakland, California

Matt Feeney of Pass and Stow Racks might be one of the happiest people at the show. He works out of a shop in Oakland, California, and has over three decades of fabrication experience, starting with making bicycle frames in a basement with his friend back in 1992. Pass and Stow Racks was born out of a necessity to haul heavy school books around while he was taking classes at a local community college.

Anyone who has used or seen Matt’s racks up close will attest to their quality. He makes every rack with brass fillet-brazed aircraft tubing in 4130 chromoly steel, so they are strong and lightweight, and each one is handmade. He has made front racks for years, available with eight leg lengths and various platform sizes.

The rear rack, however, is entirely new to Matt. He designed it in 2019, but it sat on the shelf until recently. It matches the front rack in that it’s fully custom, with non-cuttable stays made specifically for the bike the rack is going on. Customers will tell Matt their bike and frame size, and he drops that into CAD to make sure it fits perfectly. The sliding stays provide some adjustment, mainly just the pitch, but it gives it a real custom look. Max explained, “Bikes are beautiful, and I feel like the rack should complement that.” The rack dropouts are modular and can change the height depending on how much tire clearance you need or if you’re mounting it to the axle.

The bright Retrotec sporting Matt’s racks was made by Curtis Inglis specifically for the show. They’ve worked together before, and it’s amazing to see how well the racks and frame fit together. It’s a rigid 32-inch mountain bike kitted out with a collection of beautiful White Industries parts, including their newly released titanium cranks and the new Camrock 32 tires from Teravail.

Teravaillink

Denver, Colorado

Speaking of Teravail, the QBP-owned brand teamed up with Bicycle Pubes this year to benefit a good cause. In conjunction with a bike shop near some of their team members in Denver, the Mullet Mechanic, Bicycle Pubes, State Bikes, and Teravail joined forces to create a raffle bike to help those affected by ICE. Sporting their prototype denim print tires, it’s a Klunker for a cause. It also features some interesting denim bags and bits that make it quintessentially Pube-y.

Tickets are currently being sold at the show, and one lucky winner will walk away with the bike and these strange tires. Teravail says that, aside from supporting a worthy cause, they’re using this opportunity to see how creative they can get with tire aesthetics, and that people should be on the lookout for more intriguing designs in the future.

Mone Bikeslink

Silver City, New Mexico

Cjell Mone of Mone Bikes will forever be one of my favorite framebuilders. In an industry that can often feel way too serious, Cjell brings a refreshingly low-stress energy to shows like MADE that is incredibly infectious. Cjell was showing off a few bikes but was eager to highlight the custom Small Batch Straight Bar (SB2) because it’s a bike you can actually buy.

The SB2 is a twin-top-tube klunker optimized for coaster brakes and 29 x 2.6″ tires, handmade in Mone’s breadtruck, which lives on his property in southern New Mexico. Each SB2 is fillet-brazed, which Cjell said isn’t necessarily better than TIG welding, but it was much more affordable for him to get started, as all he really needed was a $300 plumber’s torch.

Mone will make geared bikes and singlespeeds, but coaster-brake bikes are their bread and butter. For the rear hub, they start with readily available Shimano CB-E110 Coaster brake hubs and then rebuild them with new axles, drive-side bearings, heavy-duty axle nuts, and grease. They make the torque arms and cooling fins, and they come in a variety of axle standards depending on your needs. They are built and modified to order, and Cjell says you can buy them on their website, but they hardly make any money on them, so he encourages you not to.

A valued customer from Phoenix commissioned the custom SB2 he had on display this year. “He wanted the biggest possible chainring, and I thought that was the dumbest thing I’ve heard,” Cjell explained. “So it has this old-school Schwinn chainring and a 28T cog on the back.” Cjell made the cranks, the bars, and the bullmoose stem, which has no less than 10 bolts holding the bar in place, just in case you have trust issues.

Finally, Cjell finished the build with a handmade knife that lives inside the steerer tube. He ordered the Damascus steel blade, which he shaped himself, and the handle is made from juniper from Silver City. He wanted it to be hidden in plain sight, so he left the Phil top cap on the bottom. He assures us it won’t eject while riding, and we trust him.

Hammondmadelink

Goleta, California

Meeting Channing Hammond of Hammondmade turned out to be one of the most unexpected yet rewarding experiences of the entire weekend. In 1996, Channing started none other than Old Man Mountain. Shortly after, Adventure Cycling Association launched the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR), and Channing showed up with racks mounted to axles and cantilever bosses, as that was the only way to attach a rack to his mountain bike.

Fast forward nearly two decades, and Chris and Katy of Robert Axle Project purchased Old Man Mountain from Channing after years of collaboration. “It’s like a child that has gone out into the world,” Channing said. “I’m so proud of them and what they’ve done with it, but I couldn’t stay away.”

Channing built his first aluminum mountain bike in 2000, and in 2006, he won Best Aluminum Frame at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. Over the next few years, he turned his attention to race cars as a design and fabrication consultant, making bespoke bicycles for a select number of customers. This year, Channing has returned full-time to framebuilding and is fired up.

The aluminum hardtail he had on display at MADE is something he calls the “Weekender.” It’s a purpose-built bikepacking rig that Channing built from the ground up, including the machined box chainstays, the welding, and the powdercoat finish. What first caught our attention were the various bolt-on racks, undoubtedly inspired by Channing’s days making racks under the Old Man Mountain name.

The mini rear rack is designed to sit close to the rear tire, addressing Channing’s concern that people don’t like the look of traditional racks. The front rack bolts directly onto the headtube, taking weight off the handlebar and keeping the handling light and responsive. There are at least three other bikes at the bike show that use headtube-mounted rack systems, and we can’t help but think this would make an awesome new standard—if standardization is even a possibility.

Finally, there’s an interesting L-shaped cargo bracket that makes full use of the dead space under the downtube. While we’re not exactly sure how it would hold gear beyond a custom bag, or whether or not it would just get in the way when riding technical terrain, we’re excited to see Channing experimenting and flexing decades of design and fabrication experience. Keep it up, Channing!

Smith Opticslink

Smith Optics also had a large booth presence at the show this year, though they were largely there to throw a party. With tattoos, candy, and a scavenger hunt, the helmet and sunglass brand was there to bring the vibes.

Byron from Slug got inked up, but if you didn’t want to mark your skin permanently, the brand was also offering custom patches for hats and other merch.

Doom Barslink

Albuquerque, New Mexico

I first stumbled upon Doom Bars, owned by Keaton Haire, over six years ago. He has always worked in the bike industry, serving as a bike mechanic for most of his adult life. He worked at Chris King here in Portland for a short while and bent up his first bars as a nice touch for the sport-touring bike he built for himself in 2018. He fell in love with the process of making handlebars and has turned it into a successful full-time job cranking out bars under the Doom name.

Keaton had two bikes on display at this year’s MADE bike show: a rigid BMX-inspired 29er and the perfectly weathered all-rounder here. He’s mostly making bars, so he has only made the two bikes, but he hopes to make some more soon. He describes the bike as a “rando-inspired performance hybrid” and uses it for gravel rides, commuting, and everything else short of full-on mountain biking.

Handlebars are Doom’s focus, though. Keaton makes titanium and 4130 Chromoly steel mountain bike bars in just about any size or shape you could want. He offers a few production models that he tries to keep in stock or make available in small batches but can also do fully custom bars with about a month-long turnaround. He brought along a few bars to show us, including a custom Lucky Riser with a 3-inch rise and 14° backsweep and a mustache-style bar with a 33° backsweep and a 1.5-inch rise. Beyond those, be sure to check out the Bikepacker’s Delight. Logan tested the titanium and steel versions a few years back, and you can find his review here.

Sour Bicycleslink

Dresden, Germany

The bright pink steel full-suspension from Sour Bicycles in Germany was on display at Astral Cycling, and we pulled aside our friend Loren, the director of sales and marketing, to take a closer look. Astral collaborated with Sour on a prototype monster-mullet trail bike with a 32-inch front wheel and a 29-inch rear wheel. The goal is to try this platform out for a while to see how the mullet setup works, and Loren is the lucky one who will get to do some of that testing.

The build features an Astral Serpentine rear wheel and a Jester 32 front wheel, which is one of two 32-inch wheels they currently offer. Since Astral is the sister company to White Industries, it’s no surprise to see their hubs, cranks, bottom bracket, seatpost clamp, and headset. BTCHN’ Bikes made the bars, and the rest of the components are from other friends in the industry, like Hayes, Ergon, and Reform.

Something that caught our eye was the Manitou fork, which appears to be a prototype 32-inch suspension fork we first spotted on the Sour Pasta Party 32 earlier this year. The bike features a 120mm fork and 120mm rear shock and falls into the trail-bike category, but its geometry is more or less experimental at this point.

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