Tay, Cari, Spencer, and John are all back in Portland at the 2025 Made Bike Show. During load-in day, Spencer and John perused the available offerings and selected bikes from Artefact, Btchn, DeSalvo, Moné, Slow Southern Steel, Doom Bars, Falconer, and Rare Earth. Read on for a jam-packed gallery full of details of our favs from Day 01!
The Radavist thanks Shimano for sponsoring our Made Bike Show coverage and our independent Reportage!
Artefact Road Bike
If you’ve been following Daniel Yang’s YouTube channel, then you are familiar with his never-ending quest for a visually aligned steel road bike-friendly stem and fork. For the 2025 Made Bike Show, Daniel displayed the fruits of his labor: this Artefact road bike. Artefact is a project the bicycle designer embarked on in 2024 in hopes of leaving a lasting imprint on bicycle design and pushing the paradigm of known bicycle phenotypes.
This steel road bike embodies his desire to achieve a modern disc brake road bike with classic proportions. It features the Aardvark OEM stem highlighted in his YouTube video from the Taipei Show, along with the all-new Artefact carbon road fork. The frame’s front end looks balanced, and the bike feels featherlight when lifted.
Adorning the head tube is an abstraction of the Sutro Tower in San Francisco. The road bike is still alive at events like the 2025 Made Bike Show and we’re always eager to see what Daniel cooks up for his YouTube channel.
@Artefact.Bike
BTCHN Lonesome Dove 32er
Hold onto your butts, the 32ers have arrived. In today’s Reportage, we have three 32er Beautiful Bicycles. The first showcased being Tyler Reiswig from BTCHN’ Bikes’ “Lonesome Dove,” named after his undying and impassioned love for his backyard doves. The frame was constructed from a mix of 4130 and Columbus tubing, with 3D sintered stainless steel sliding dropouts designed in-house by BTCHN.
It’s rolling on prototype Wren Sports 32″ wheels that feature boost spacing front and rear with star ratchet singlespeed cogs. The front and rear wheel can be swapped for singlespeed gearing tweaks, with the sliding dropouts offering 25 mm of adjustment. The fork, a collaboration with PVD, features a stainless crown and dropouts with titanium 25.4 mm blades that are epoxied into the stainless parts.
Tyler did a fair amount of jeuging to finagle the same contact points and fit metrics of his current bikes while making slight geometric tweaks to counteract the larger wheel diameters. This included 55 mm of fork offset to achieve the correct amount of wheel flop and a 15 mm stem extension for his proper extension.
This was by far the most involved execution of the 32er platform we documented on the first day of this showcase.
@BTCHN.Bikes
DeSalvo and Landshark Swedish Meatball Gravel Bike
Mike DeSalvo has had John Slawta from Landshark painting his bikes for over a decade. All the while, the two batted back and forth possible names for their long-held collaborations. Earlier this year, when Mike contacted John to paint his Made show bikes, the two decided on a tongue-in-cheek brand name called “Swedish Meatball.”
This gravel bike was paired with Mike’s Baja Bug with classic desert racing stripes. Slawta took inspiration from the yellow, orange, and red stripes, and brought in an abstract array of patterns and splashes of color.
In terms of construction, this steel chassis consists of a mix of Paragon Machine Work parts, with Columbus tubing, and features a True Temper OX Platinum downtube. Astral provided the one-off white cerakoted wheels to mirror his Baja bug’s white steel rims.
@DeSalvoBicycles
Doom Bars BMX 29er Single Speed
Keaton from Albuquerque-based Doom Bars rolled in his BMX 29er for the 2025 Made Bike Show. This frame and fork were originally built in 2019. Keaton, formally trained as a metal artist, learned to braze and weld in art school. Using his talents, he decided he wanted to build a bike. Inspired by his years growing up in Fort Collins and admiring the works of Black Sheep, Oddity, and Moon Men, he wanted to try something different.
The BMX 29er was born from a desire to jib and jam down the trails. Keaton initially attempted to dimple the seat tube but ended up spending six hours smoothing his dimples and filling the inconsistencies with brass.
This year, Keaton elevated the bike to full-on shredpacking status on Matt Mason’s WeedSac bike camping weekend with a frame bag by Trans It Bags.
@Doom.Bars
Falconer 32er for Alec White from White Industries
Alec from White Industries contacted Cameron Falconer just two months ago about wanting to build a 32er single-speed mountain bike, and in that time, everything kind of just fell into place. These collisions of cycling fads with US manufacturing often move faster in the maker community, versus the larger companies that rely on overseas manufacturing.
For instance, once Alec expressed an interest in the bike, Astral Cycling, owned by White Industries, was able to roll out 32″ rim Outback extrusions in a matter of days. Then, White Industries made boost spaced front and rear singlespeed hubs, and Alec whipped up his own singlespeed cog design. This allowed Cameron Falconer to build the frame, being mindful of geometric tweaks and the larger wheel diameter.
Other details include an eccentric bottom bracket with an eccentric bottom bracket by Oner Components (also made by White Industries), and Cameron’s “friends and family” cable guides made from cut and bent flat washers. Finishing the build are some buttery-smooth Intend brakes and a beautiful inverted fork.
Who knows if the 32er will catch on, but we’re digging these wagon-wheeled creations at the 2025 Made Bike Show.
@CoffeeandEggs
Moné Bikes Hijole
If you know Cjell, a steel full suspension coaster brake bike should come as no surprise. Pure brass, steel, and badassery. “Hijole” translates to “Oh my gosh,” and well, yeah! The frame is made from La Roca tubes paired to a breadtuck-made single pivot rear triangle with Cjell’s Signature adjustable dropouts for singlespeeding.
Dripping in brass, Moné’s new lightweight brazed stem, Fox 36 fork, Ohlins shock, Odyssey BMX cranks, an oddly complete set of mismatched E13 wheels, KS lever dropper, Terry Butterfly saddle (IYKYK), and a coaster hub with all the fixings. This bike is a parts bin special of the highest order!
The Hijole is designed to run at 0% sag for only the big hits. The bike climbs like a hardtail but has some give when you really need it. Only sends, only the brave, only skids!
@Monebikes
Rare Earth Holy Mountain Full Suspension
Brian Hall’s Rare Earth creations first entered the bike media space with our coverage of his Baja Divide and Tour Divide bikes. Then, at last year’s Made Bike Show, he unveiled a stunning Rascal Saint hardtail. Over the past few months, we’ve been following his R&D on his latest show bike, the Holy Mountain full suspension.
Being a small operation and wanting to keep it all hand-made, he bent 4130 plate into the intricate gussets and suspension linkage designs. His clevises were machined by his apprentice, a machinist who wanted to build a bike frame. The Twin Link suspension platform relies on 130 mm of rear travel paired with a 140 mm travel Intend fork. South City Stitchworks supplied the Dyneema bags for this rowdy all-mountain rig.
His love for Berd Spokes found its way onto the project laced to DT Swiss 350 hubs in limited rose anodizing and Verrum carbon rims, which feature an external width of 34 mm. These rims were cerakoted silver to match the silver components. He bent his own titanium bars to top off the plush cockpit. The bolt-on framebag utilizes 3D-printed wedges that are held in compression by threaded inserts.
There have been a number of stunning metal full suspension bikes featured here from framebuilding showcases over the years, but this bike might take the cake. In terms of weight, it weighs 35 lbs on the nose.
@RareEarth_Cycle
Slow Southern Steel Custom Truss Fork 29er
Jesse is back for his second year at MADE, hailing from Fayetteville, AR. Drawing inspiration from an inherited Monarch Cruiser with a springer fork and Jesse’s desire to have a dedicated bikepacking bike, the beautiful truss fork and bike you see above came to be. The main fork uses a Reynolds 853 tubeset accented with stainless steel truss tubes on the fork and seat stays.
Jesse machined his own lower crown race to transition the 1 1/8″ fork crown to the tapered headtube. The bike is designed for a 120mm fork if the bikepacking trip calls for it. He also custom-made the bullmoose bars that bolt into the truss fork assembly. He was inspired by the springer forks on Harleys, hence the acorn nut adorning the top and bottom of the adjustable truss connection.
As one of the MADE media bikes for the weekend, this rig was outfitted with a Mavic carbon wheelset, a cable-actuated XTR groupset, and only the most robust tires from everyone’s favorite rubber barons, Ultradynamico. I can’t wait for Jesse to get this thing dirty out on some proper bikepacking trips.
Well, that’s a wrap for our first 2025 Made Bike Show gallery. Which bike is your favorite, and what would you like to see us document from the show?
The Radavist thanks Shimano for sponsoring our Made Bike Show coverage and our independent Reportage!