Mike Truelove's Proven Recipe Building Steel Bikes in the Age of Carbon

The way Mike Truelove tells it, building bikes teaches a lot of life lessons. Methodical actions, living with your decisions, keeping an open mind and thinking out of the box—all things that provide perspective and lead to a truly genuine outcome. For Mike, that outcome is a hand-made, steel hardtail frame, a functional work of art that provides as much fun as it does awe. Although Mike says he’s surprised that there’s still a demand for such a frame, we’re not, because as long as people ride bikes, there will be people who want a frame that is simple, elegant and proven.

Produced as part of the SIGMA ARTisan Series.