2016 Best Mountain Bike - NAHBS

Bike Radar by Nick Legan
At the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, a convention hall is filled with bikes that represent the pinnacle of cycling ingenuity and craft. Here, the job of picking award winners is not an easy task. But each of the past four years I’ve had the honor and the chore of doing just that, helping to judge the beautiful bikes on display at NAHBS. This year several categories were especially tough, in which case the judges’ panel decided to include Honorable Mentions.

The People’s Choice winner was Alchemy Cycles for its Arktos full-suspension bike: