Gallery: Velo’s best of NAHBS awards for 2013

Best Road Bike: We love bike racing, and we love race bikes. So our Best Road Bike, unsurprisingly, is a race-worthy rig. Argonaut offers custom geometry and layups in its carbon fiber builds, tuning weight, ride quality, and stiffness to a rider's needs. And they're lookers, too. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

Best Mountain Bike: The true beauty of this titanium 27.5 Mosaic hardtail is in the details. The welds and bead blasting are some of the best at the show. The integrated seat mast is a final, perfect touch. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com

Best Cross Bike: Richard Sachs knows how to build 'em, and how to make 'em stand out. We spotted this classic Sachs from across the room and couldn't take our eyes off it. Photo: VeloNews.com

Most Creative: Blacksheep Cycles Semi-fat. Fat bikes good. Suspension good. Full suspension fat bike? Excellent. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com

Most Creative: Nobody makes a fat bike fork? No problem for Black Sheep. Rig up some suspension linkage and throw a nice Fox in there. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com

Most Likely to Appear on Game of Thrones: Bilenky lugged steel. It's a bike straight out of the middle ages, and we love it for the look. Photo: Neal Rogers | VeloNews.com

Best Integration of Pocket Change: Sycip. For those inevitable forks in the road, just flip a coin. Heads, right. Tails, left. Problem solved. Photo: Chris Case | VeloNews.com

Best Mirror: Festka track bike. Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's the prettiest of them all? But of course! Velo managing editor Chris Case, as long as you stick a camera in front of his face. Photo: Chris Case | VeloNews.com

Best Mirror: The Festka track bike, in all of its light-bending glory. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

Best Saddle/Bartape Match: Bishop track bike. Is it Naugahyde? Not exactly, but it is reminiscent of the "pleather" popular in the 1970s. Who needs anything more on a track bike than matching saddle and minimal handlebar covers? Photo: Chris Case | VeloNews.com

Best Color: Gaulzetti Corsa race bike. It's striking, original, and beautiful. A clear winner here. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

Best Color: The purple King parts (headset, bottom bracket and hubs) are all icing on the Gaulzetti Corsa cake. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

Best Use of Glitter: Ground Up Speed Shop track bike. Dean Tracy, the owner of this sparkly wonder, is a lucky man. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

Best Mood Lighting: Bilenky is a double winner today; not only is his track bike the most likely to be featured on Game of Thrones, but his booth lighting put us in the mood, shall we say, more than any other. Photo: Matthew Beaudin | VeloNews.com

Best Beard: Kevin Batchelor, Mosaic Cycles. This is without a doubt the most hotly contested category at NAHBS. There are, in fact, more beards than bikes here, and the show's acronym secretly stands for North American Humongous Beard Show. So it is with great pride that we present Mr. Batchelor with the coveted Beardie, awarded for his most fiery beard. Honorable mentions also go to Josh Culbertson of Avery County Cycles and almost every other male at the show. Photo: Matthew Beaudin | VeloNews.com

Best Photobomb: Blurry James Bond, back right. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

Best Builder Logo: Naked Hammer Guy, Strong Cycles. Because real men build bikes in the nude. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

Best In Show: Our own pick for the best bike on the NAHBS showfloor is the same one picked by the show's own judges: Rob English's incredible TT Mk2 time trial bike. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

The English time trial bike features a unique look and impressive engineering. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com