As the number of cyclists in New York grow each year , more and more bike shop have popped up around the city to meet demand . A growing mathematical group of them narrow down in entirely hand-crafted , usage bike frames — like six - yr - oldHorse Cycles , a custom steel chassis shop in Brooklyn . This week Horse ’s founder , Thomas Callahan , gave me a tour of his unbelievable workshop and some perceptiveness about Horse and where it ’s going .
Horse Cycles has no signage on the street — other than its discretely publish logotype on the glass Lucy in the sky with diamonds of a rusted workshop door . Inside is a bicyclist ’s mecca , and Callahan ’s workplace for the past two and a half years . Horse builds two kind of bikes : handmade lead or route cycle skeletal frame and the recentlyKickstartedstock frame , Urban Tour ( which will be on display at theBike Cult Showlater this month ) .
The custom process is completely qualified on the customer — it ’s the wheel globe ’s equivalent of haute couture . You either can pick something “ mighty off the table , ” as Tom says , or come in with a vision and get measured , pick color , and create something really singular . Horse ’s stock frames run at $ 1200 , while the custom work can range anywhere from $ 1900 - 2500 for frame and fork . It all count on what you want done .
How did Horse emerge ? Tom is from Portland , unsurprisingly , where his sexual love for cycling and interest for building anatomy all got started .
“ It ’s the most amazing method acting of transport , especially in an urban environment . All the places you leave out from point A to level B underground , ” Tom says . “ It ’s good for your body and it ’s good for your creative thinker . To ride something that you ’ve created is totally rad . ”
Tom is completely ego - learn , and now builds about 20 customs frames a year , each of which takes about two week to fill out . Since he started build chassis , he ’s never not had a tilt of gild to complete . So what does he hinge upon ? The first bicycle he built — an almost seven - twelvemonth - old track bike . But he ’s looking forward to finally completing his personal Urban Touring bike to take on a few long - awaited trips .
For Tom , the Urban Tour Kickstarter was a fashion to join forces with other independent troupe . The project — which exceeded its goal by almost $ 20,000 in April — will pay back backers with hand-crafted goods from eight other local company , grade from hats by Vancouver cycling companyHMPLto coffee from Portland’sTandem Roasters . Plus the motorcycle itself — a topically - built , attractively - constructed frame of reference that almost every cyclist can touch on to .
Now that he has the egg cast with the Urban Tour project , Tom ’s long - terminus goal is to become a positive cycling military group in the residential area . watch out Horse ’s sitehere , or stop by to correspond our the Tour at theBike Cult Shownext calendar month .
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