Gallery: Integration and innovation at NAHBS
- By Caley Fretz
- Published Feb. 25, 2013

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The Calfee Dragonfly has been a company staple. This one got a special rainbow theme and the latest in electronic integration. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Top tube stripes for the Dragonfly. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The Dragonfly is built with tube-to-tube, carbon-lugged construction. We love how the organic lug shapes make it appear that the tubes were woven together by spiderweb. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Continuity of color across the top tube and onto the stem. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Calfee sells seatpost batteries for Di2, complete with a small USB port for charging. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
A fully integrated K-Edge Garmin mount from Calfee. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
This Mosaic Cycles R1 titanium road frame is the personal bike of the company's own Kevin Batchelor. The polished runes along the top tube read "Biking Viking." Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The Di2 battery is hidden inside the integrated stem on this Calfee Dragonfly. The holes cut in the bottom reveal the LEDs placed on the Di2 "brain." Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Dean's Animas Exogrid relies on the collaboration of carbon fiber and titanium to create an incredibly smooth ride, and it looks fantastic. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Dean's Exogrid carbon/ti technology. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The Dean Animas. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Look gave Calfee the exclusive rights to its fantastic 68mm crank/bottom bracket for this build. The girth allowed Calfee to effectively hide the rather large Campagnolo battery and brain inside the downtube for the first time. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The massive BB section of the Look cranks allows enough space for the EPS battery. The small black plug on the base of the downtube hides a port for charging. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Hemp fiber lugs. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
All Predator bikes are handmade in southern California. The company also offers carbon repair services. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The saddle has a kevlar base, allowing for a measure of flexibility and comfort. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
A fully integrated stem/bar up front. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Chop stem, wrap carbon. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Ground Up builds bikes for some of the quickest trackies in the country, including Dean Tracy. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
We'd wager you won't miss Tracy coming up the outside on this one. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The collaboration of Ira Ryan and Tony Pereira in Breadwinner Cycles was a hot topic on the show floor. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The Lolo is Breadwinner's steel-tube racer. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
One of the most intricate headbadges on the floor. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Nicely integrated Di2 routing on the Lolo. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The new AluBoo from Boo Bicycles will make the material available at an incredible price. The bike shown here will retail for about $2,000, and the frame will be available for $675. Boo will roll out a Kickstarter for the frames in about a week. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The AluBoo brings bamboo constuction to a much lower pricepoint. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The frames may be cheaper, but they're still built by hand out of the same organic material. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
A one-piece wood bar/stem? Why not. The rest of the bike is made of wood anyway. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Beautiful housing and hydraulic line integration on this Mosaic mountain bike. The tube appears to have eaten the cables. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Cherubim bikes always seem almost organic. The lines of this one flow nearly uninterrupted from front to back. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Cherubim never disappoints. This chromed rack is an extension of the twin top tubes, flowing beautifully out of the frame. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Chromed bars on the Cherubim. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
Integration is always about hiding away the unsightly. This cherubim integrates the lines of the stem straight into the top tube. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
The use of SRAM's 1x11 XX1 group means that only two cables make their way from the bars to the back end of this Boo Cycles 29er mountain bike. Designer Nick Frey took advantage and ran both in parallel inside the top tube and out the back of the seat tube. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

NAHBS Gallery: Integration and Innovation
We're suckers for a nice ISP, as on this Gaulzetti Corsa race frame. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

FILED UNDER: Bikes and Tech / Gallery TAGS: NAHBS
Caley Fretz
Tech Editor Caley Fretz came on board with VN in September 2010, and now splits his year between Boulder, Colorado and Annecy, France. Beyond his journalistic pursuits, he is a category 1 road, 'cross and track racer. He also holds a pro XC mountain bike license, though unlicensed racing is now more his style.
















