This concept bike, which debuted at the recent Handmade Bike Show, is made of Japanese black bamboo. Calfee's production bamboo frames are made from smoke-cured bamboo from Taiwan.
- This concept bike, which debuted at the recent Handmade Bike Show, is made of Japanese black bamboo. Calfee's production bamboo frames are made from smoke-cured bamboo from Taiwan.
- Craig Calfee at work on a carbon tandem, a Calfee Design specialty.
- The fork graveyard consists of dead forks that don't meet Calfee's stringent symmetry tolerances. Forks that fail the symmetry test may cause a bike to wobble at high speeds.
- A wall of carbon lug templates.
- Molds for frame lay up and assembly.
- Dagoberto power sands a tandem frame.
- Dagoberto has a tough job, but the view outside his "office" is perhaps the best at Calfee.
- Still life in the paint room: Calfee Design prefers DuPont coatings, but they can match everything from Acme Rodgers to Valspar.
- The bamboo that Calfee uses in its production and custom frames is from Taiwan. The wood is smoke-cured to prevent splitting and to kill any microbes lurking in the wood. The tubes are then sealed in a satin polyurethane.
- Frame repairs are a big part of Calfee's day-to-day business. Here an Orca frame is being patched prior to painting.
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