Portland bike builders take home national awards


Portland builders took home two coveted awards at the 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Austin.

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Portland builders took home two coveted awards at the 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Austin.

Nathan Meschke and Matt Cardinal of Signal Cycles won ‘Best City Bike,’ and Mark DiNucci won ‘Best of Show.’

The award couldn’t come at a better time for Signal. Meschke and Cardinal are on the cusp of major changes with their up-and-coming business and they’ll need this exposure to help launch their new production bike venture.

Mark DiNucci is a builder’s builder. His work is clean and elegant and his bikes show a masterful attention to detail. His award-winning bike was an olive green and red, flat-bar, lugged steel city bike with classic touches including a one-inch quill stem, handmade lights, a thumb-shifter, painted metal fenders, and more.

Read more at BikePortland.org.

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