Building your own bike? Match the incredible ride feel of our carbon fiber and hard maple composite Urban Scout frame with your preferred setup. This frameset is available with the Whisky Carbon Fork, Chris King headset, and Thomson seatpost and binder clamp to give the perfect starting point for your custom build.
Choose with or without a derailleur hanger, and we’ll …
Have something special in mind? Let us help make it a reality.
Contact us today and schedule an appointment to start talking through your dream bike. We’ll begin with frame specifics like geometry, wood species, custom inlay, and graphics. For example, we could build a black walnut road frame with hickory accents, or a birch track frame with carbon inlay. …
Fast, Smooth, Connected – With its road bike inspired geometry and hard maple and carbon fiber composite frame, the Urban Scout hardwood bicycle is a new experience in cycling. It’s surprisingly lightweight and stiff, and the hardwood gives a unique ride feel unlike any other material.
The Urban Scout Belt is equipped with a Gates carbon belt drive in place of …
Fast, Smooth, Connected – With its road bike inspired geometry and hard maple and carbon fiber composite frame, the Urban Scout hardwood bicycle is a new experience in cycling. It’s surprisingly lightweight and stiff, and the hardwood gives a unique ride feel unlike any other material.
The Urban Scout Eleven utilizes the SRAM 11-speed drivetrain which puts all 11 gears on …
"While these bikes might look stunning, they are actually much more impressive when they hit the road. It’s like being one with a bike."
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We’re now 20 days away from the North American Handmade Bike Show – NAHBS – and we’ve decided we should probably start gluing the frame together for our wood gravel bike we’re featuring! We’ve actually Read more…
The Adventure Behind our Adventure Bike It’s our first year exhibiting at NAHBS, the North American Handmade Bicycle Show and we’ll hopefully be enjoying some nice weather in Sacramento, CA this March. Each year the show Read more…
Several years ago now, I (Jessica) had the opportunity to complete my MBA in Sustainable Business at Bainbridge Graduate Institute (now part of Presidio Graduate School). The program was dedicated to empowering business leaders to Read more…
Chris designs and builds our bikes frames from scratch. Ask Chris any questions about geometry, sizing, material mechanical properties or other technical questions.
Jess assembles the finished bikes and runs the website, social media, marketing and the books. Ask Jess about options, components, ambassador programs and collaborations.