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2025 MADE Bike Show: Shimano Showcase Featuring Breadwinner, Firefly, Donkelope, Moots, Mosaic

Tay, Cari, Spencer, and John are all back in Portland at the 2025 Made Bike Show. Shimano displayed five stunning Beautiful Bicycles from Breadwinner, Firefly, Donkelope, Moots, and Mosaic. Read on for a jam-packed gallery, full of details, presented by Shimano.

The Radavist thanks Shimano for sponsoring our Made Bike Show coverage and our independent Reportage!

Breadwinner B-Road

Breadwinner has been building bikes in Portland, Oregon, since 2013, making it the perfect starting point for our showcase: a B-Road with home field advantage. With generous tire clearance, with or without fenders. Breadwinner offers a host of custom paint schemes, but this soft blue and purple fade behind the logos is sublime.

Sporting a full kit of the new Shimano GRX Di2 wireless gravel groupset, including Shimano’s new carbon gravel wheels. The new fully wireless GRX keeps the lines clean on this svelte stunner, with only the hydraulic lines being routed along the bike. Since all the new Di2 wireless shifters and derailleurs work seamlessly together, you can see a GRX gravel crank and drop bar shifters working with a long cage GRX derailleur and a large, wide range MTB cassette. The rest of the contact points are handled with a host of components from Shimano’s component line, PRO.

@BreadwinnerCycles

Donkelope Bikes Custom Gravel

Donkelope Bikes is the framebuilding outfit of Greg Heath in Bellingham, Washington, since 2002. At first glance, it looks to be a simple brown paint job with some metal flake, but if you look closely, there is a subtle color shift to blue. It was not easy to photograph, but when the light hit just right, it was stunning. With an elegant lugged fork crown and s-bend seat stays, this custom gravel bike has some truly lovely lines.

This is a bike I can really see myself riding, as I am a huge fan of the CUES/LINKGLIDE line that came out last year. This is about exactly how I have my touring and gravel rig setup, CUES 1×11, Carbon rims, and a dropper post…chef kiss. Not to mention the generous stack height, a nod I give to very, very few bicycles these days, cheers on that, Greg! GRX carbon rims with an HG driver for the CUES cassette is my kind of combo.

@Donkelope

Firefly X Ogle Components Ti Full Suspension

This was the first bike I shot at the 2025 Made Bike Show, and oh boy was it a stunner. Firefly‘s builds ought to need no introduction on The Radavist at this point, but if you are unfamiliar, they create some of the finest titanium bicycles in the world out of Boston, Massachusetts. Josh Ogle is a famed machinist known for his titanium parts, both machined and 3d printed. Here we have a collaboration between Firefly and Ogle to create a stunning full suspension bike utilizing the 3VO suspension design.

There are a few Easter eggs with the Ogle logo and Firefly through the 3D-printed parts on the bike. With the downtube junction, bottom bracket, parts of the suspension linkage, seat stay/ bridge, and both dropouts being 3D printed, this bike is a technical marvel. The XTR wheels also sport Ogle’s titanium lock rings.

This bike is dressed for success in a full Shimano XTR Di2 everything. Complimenting Shimano’s finest offering is a full suite of Fox Factory shocks, fork, and dropper, all with Ka$hima-coated stanchions. Finishing off the build is a set of bars, stem, and saddle from PRO.

@FireflyBicycles and @OgleComponentDesign

Moots Routt Super Commuter 

Moots is a legendary name in titanium. The framebuilder’s Steamboat Springs, Colorado-based shop needs little introduction. They’re the Masters of Metal, after all! This Routt is set up as a commuter with fenders, flat bars, and a CUES Q’AUTO drivetrain. I say super commuter, because, well, its a titanium Moots with a Christ King aeroset headset, and Moots carbon fork.

You may notice that there is no battery on that CUES electronic rear derailleur, and that is because Shimano’s new Q’AUTO runs on a rear dynamo hub for its power. There is a small wire snaking out from the hub near the dropout to supply power to the derailleur, but the shifter functions similarly to the Di2 suite. The idea of a full electronic shifting setup that requires no battery shifting other than simply riding the bike is a prospect that is very intriguing to me. The Q’AUTO system has an automatic shift function that, after a few miles, starts to learn your shifting patterns and, before you know it, you are always in the right gear. I think I’d prefer the manual shifting, which is still an option, but it’s pretty impressive to squeeze all that tech into a slightly larger rear hub.

@MootsCycles

Mosaic RT Zero 

Mosaic Cycles out of Boulder, Colorado, recently revealed their latest road bike, the RT Zero. The RT Zero blends Mosaic’s proprietary Zero Ops carbon with their premium butted titanium, combining all the brand has learned in 15 years of framebuilding. These frames will be limited to a 25-frame run, so you’d better hurry up if you are looking to get on one of these stunning steeds. The combination of raw titanium, deep blue paint, and razzle camouflage-inspired accents makes this bike easy on the eyes.

For a race machine of this pedigree, there is only one option: Dura Ace. Deep dish carbon Dura Ace C50 wheels and a full groupset of 2×12 Dura Ace give this RT Zero everything a racer could want.

@MosaicCycles

 

 


 

The Radavist thanks Shimano for sponsoring our Made Bike Show coverage and our independent Reportage!