Our 2025 Made Bike Show coverage is coming to a close, but we’ve saved perhaps the best for last with a showcase of diverse bikes presented by Enve. Brands like Enve make it possible for us to take our squad out to these events, and their made-in-the-USA rims pair nicely with bikes manufactured by talented builders. Let’s check out eleven stunning machines below!
The Radavist thanks Enve for sponsoring this special showcase from our 2025 Made Bike Show coverage and our independent Reportage!
John here. On both a personal and professional level, I would like to thank Enve for their assistance this year. Running a small media outlet with a whole team of people is not easy, and every bit of support goes a long way. I also want to thank Spencer, who hustled rolling each of these bikes out to me to document. Without Spencer’s help, this year’s coverage wouldn’t be as extensive or fun! So thank you, homie.
Apogee One Full Suspension with Intend BC
The Apogee One is by far one of the most unique-looking steel full suspension platforms on the market. When it first debuted at the 2023 Made Bike Show, it blew all of us metal full suspension fans out of the water. These 140 mm travel trail bikes feature the Apogee Free Float Module, which contains the linkage assemblage in a tight and neat package. This not only keeps the weight low, but frees up the frame space for bottles or bags.
Earlier this year, we showcased the “Dune” earth tone ombre finish in our Sea Otter Reportage. For this year’s Made Bike Show, the brand showcased another stunning build, complete with Intend BC components, elevating this bike’s stance and attitude to eleven.
@ApogeeBikes
Black Magic Painted Enve Fray All-Road
While Enve’s in-house paint jobs are stunning in their own regard, there’s something special about a Black Magic paint job. Rudy and Ben painted this Enve Fray all-road bike at Black Magic Paint in their Portland, Oregon-based shop. The flamboyant European paint designs of the 1980s inspired this vibrant paint design.
Drawing from some of Black Magic’s classic restorations, the combination of fades, vibrant colors, pointed chevrons, and eye-catching patterns, this Fray is an homage to the Italian race bikes in a modern, made-in-the-USA package.Read more about the Fray at Enve.
The ENVE Fray delivers 40 mm of tire clearance, but its geometry is optimized for 32 through 35 mm rubber. Check out a time-lapse of how Rudy and Ben brought this bike to life at the Black Magic Instagram.
@BlackMagicPaint and @EnveComposites
Breadwinner A-Road
Tony Pereira’s Breadwinner Cycles brought along a personal favorite this year to the 2025 Made Bike Show. First documented on The Radavist at the Enve Open House in 2023, this Breadwinner A-Road proves that “custom” does not mean “wall hanger.” The A-Road is designed for all-road rubber, with tire clearance for up to 38 mm, depending on your riding terrain.
This particular A-Road has been ridden hard over the past several years, sporting a nice coat of beausage while maintaining its copper and ivory glow. The morning sunlight offered just the right amount of kiss to make it pop. Built from Columbus Spirit tubing and sporting a Chris Igleheart-inspired segmented fork, the A-Road is all comfort while not compromising on the looks department.
@BreadwinnerCycles
Bridge Bike Works ColorSpan Unlimited Custom Paint Surveyor Road
Do you have a favourite color, design, or just want something unique? Bridge Bike Works just unveiled its ColorSpan Custom Paint options for its made-in-Canada carbon frames and forks. Choose between simple and elegant raw carbon or go wild with a bespoke Unlimited paintjob. Bridge’s paint program’s possibilities are nearly endless, as evidenced by this Surveyor road bike with a watercolor-inspired finish. While this artistic approach to paint adorning a made-in-Canada carbon chassis is light years beyond “affordable”, with its premium price point of $19,499.99 CA, for this all-in finish work, I can say it pushes the boundaries of bikes as art objects.
Many builders will insist that their craft isn’t art. But what is “art” if it’s not to be thought-provoking, even controversial? To the average consumer or cyclist, $20k is a lot of coin to drop on a dream machine, but oil paintings that merely hang on a wall fetch that and more. Why not put something beautifully unique and functional under your butt?
@BridgeBikeWorks
Crema Duo Collaboration with Sand
The Crema Duo is back! Longtime readers of The Radavist might recall my Duo from March of 2016. These new frames, like the first-generation Crema frames, are made by Legor Cicli in Spain. Sporting a whopping 55 mm of tire clearance on a 700c wheel, the Duo embodies the direction many custom builders are now offering in their frames. A lot has changed in the past decade since the first Duo, and the updated steel chassis has geometry tweaks as well as internal dropper routing.
The paint is inspired by 5-MeO-DMT, a natural compound found in the genus Bufo and species alvarius. Over the years, the harvesting and use of the Sonoran Desert Toad, amongst other species of Bufo, for use in DMT rituals has been contentious. This pushed the psychedelic scientific community to synthesize the compound in a lab, offering the same ticket to visit the machine elves without harming these federally protected amphibians.
While we stand behind the responsible use of psychedelics over here, we’re opposed to the harvesting of these majestic creatures, and are thankful for awareness projects such as this, rendered in collaboration with the brand Sand.
Protect the Sonoran Desert Toad.
@CremaCycles
Rob English’s Trans America Race Bike
There are few people who can hold a torch to Rob English’s creations, not in an execution or construction way, but in an immediately recognizable silhouette. You know it’s an English simply by looking at one frame tubing juncture: the seat cluster. Rob has the uncanny ability to create rideable sculptures. His wishbone stays are pencil-thin, and his bi-lam sleeve seat clusters perform two functions: strength and aesthetics.
This Trans America race bike resembles the work from Yamaguchi in the 1990s, pre-UCI-banning of fun in framebuilding design. Its head tube sports an aero fairing, meeting the carbon aero fork; its downtube has been ovalized. Every iota of marginal gain has been squeezed here, actually creating water from a stone. While documenting it, I ran my hands across the downtube and could feel the resistance from my fingers on the safety orange paint, which led me to gently squeeze the downtube, feeling its walls flex.
If you’d like to read more about this bike, Rob has a great blog entry on his website that you can check out.
@EnglishCycles
Eyewater Bicycles
Corey Lowe, a veteran of the carbon bicycle industry, runs Seattle-based Eyewater Bicycles. Corey’s background is in mechanical engineering, and he learned how to work with carbon as an engineer at some heavy hitters, including Parlee and Allied Cycle Works.
Each carbon lug is laid up by hand, and these bicycles feature a special curing process that offers a finish unlike anything I’ve documented before. The hyper matte sheen looks like a well-broken-in pair of work boots that have been recrafted and buffed to a sheen. What was perhaps the biggest surprise, however, was that this frame has a threaded bottom bracket.
Many thanks to Wolf Tooth for displaying this bike in its booth. I’ve long wanted to document an Eyewater!
@EyewaterBicycles
Hoff Cycles Endurance Road
It’s not often we are in the unique position to document a bike in both its built-up and rideable raw and completely painted and polished finished state. Spencer documented the bike at the 2025 Enve Builder Round Up, and then I got to shoot it at the 2025 Made Bike Show. I was so enamoured with its finishing and fillet brazing that I completely spaced on shooting drive side photos. Many thanks to Wolf Tooth for allowing me to use the above shot in this gallery, and for displaying this noble steed in their booth.
Fillet brazed at Adam Hoff’s new shop in Bethlehem, PA, it is custom in every way possible. Adam took two Columbus Spirit HSS tapered headtubes, halved them, and created a beautiful hourglass headtube by hand. To achieve the proper stiffness for such a large frame, Adam used a massive GX shape Spirit HSS downtube, a 28.6 round-to-oval 35.0 flattened top tube, CX S-Bend Life chainstays, a Life seat tube, and an 85.5mm T47 Internal BB shell. Framebuilding is often a collaborative effort, and Adam would like to thank Carl from Metal Guru and Diego from Columbus for their assistance. Hoff’s final product is a blurred line between a World Tour race machine and an endurance road bike. This thing just looks fast!
@HoffCycles
MMFG In-House Carbon Full Suspension
A number of in-house-made metal full-suspension bikes were on display at the 2025 Made Bike Show, but Los Angeles-based MMFG was the only builder to bring a handmade carbon fiber full-sus bike to Zidell Yards. This one-of-a-kind prototype stemmed from Hernán Montenegro’s desire to create a bike he’d actually want to ride in the San Gabriel Mountains. Inspired by his downcountry bike from a large manufacturer, he asked himself, “How hard could it be?”
What you see here is the fruit grown from that question.
Based on a flex stay design, this modified single pivot features hand-cast carbon linkage pieces and clevices. He explained some details weren’t ironed out in this model, but the information gained from this prototype will inform his final production run. The bike is impressive, weighing in around 28 lbs as it sits here. So what’s next? Unfortunately, part of the design nd fabrication process involves destructive testing. Hern will be shipping it out to a Colorado facility to put it through the paces. The results from the testing will inform the final iteration. Meanwhile, let’s just bask in the beauty of this immense undertaking!
@MMFG
Mosaic MT-1 Titanium Hardtail
Featherlite, nimble, fast, capable. These were just some of the words Mosaic founder Aaron Barcheck mentioned when we briefly discussed his new hardtail. Mosaic’s long-standing reputation for building race-pedigree bikes needs no introduction here, but I want to take a moment to commend the brand’s in-house finishing department. Each year, they display new power-ups, and this monochromatic paint job is superb.
In the early morning light, I couldn’t help but get lost in the Nebula finish. Available in five curated colorways or the option to work with the Mosaic paint team to create something specifically for you, Nebula is a truly one-of-one finish option. Back during our 2025 Sea Otter Reportage, I documented a Nebula road bike in bright, vibrant colors, but the monochromatic finish just hits different.
@MosaicCycles
Sanitas Pistil XC 120 Titanium and Carbon Full Suspension
Last year, Denver, Colorado-based Sanitas Cycles unveiled its flex-pivot stay-equipped Pistil titanium soft-tail bike. A few months ago, the brand debuted its Pistil Trail, which features a Ministry Cycles 3VO rear swingarm and 150 mm front and rear travel. For the 2025 Made Bike Show, the brand brought along a sleek and refined Pistil XC, utilizing Allied Cycle Works’ BC40 rear swing arm.
Compared to its Pistil Trail’s 3VO suspension platform, the BC40 is relatively simple. It’s a flex-stay, modified single-pivot suspension design. The upper rocker is mounted to the seat tube and compresses the shock in line with the top tube. This frees up the front triangle for bags and bottles, and offers a tried-and-true, simple, and supportive platform for XC racing and other endurance efforts.
@SanitasCycles
The Radavist thanks Enve for sponsoring this special showcase from our 2025 Made Bike Show coverage and our independent Reportage!
John’s Enve Showcase Closing Message. This year’s coverage was a heroic lift for our team. Tay and Cari ran our booth, which was tucked in towards the front of the venue, thanks to Shimano. Spencer and I ran the bike portraits from the show’s opening til closing each day. Our nights were spent editing and writing. This amount of work simply would not be possible without brands like Shimano and Enve supporting us.
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