Factory Tour Archives

Factory Tour: How HED Cycling prototypes, designs & builds carbon wheels in Minnesota

Here’s how HED Cycling makes their carbon-and-alloy wheels, develops prototypes and new wheels in-house, and more! Plus a look at some of the other interesting…

Written by Tyler Benedict November 30, 2022

Factory Tour: Bridge Bike Works brings world-class carbon bicycle manufacturing to Toronto

Bridge Bike Works isn’t just any bicycle startup. Rather than design something and outsource the engineering, manufacturing, painting, and assembly, they opted to create all…

Written by Tyler Benedict September 26, 2022

Factory Tour: Wolf Tooth Components shows us around – we spy THREE prototypes!

Our Wolf Tooth Components factory tour may not involve drones flying through their facility, but we get a much closer look at how they machine…

Written by Tyler Benedict July 01, 2022

Factory Tour: VanDOit’s new headquarters for custom camper vans

VanDOit’s original home base gave the room to get their custom camper van business off the ground. But with demand soaring and their modular, production-line…

Written by Tyler Benedict April 25, 2021

Factory Tour: How ENVE is making full custom carbon road bikes in house

There are definitely some things ENVE wouldn’t let us take photos of. But our factory tour video exposes a lot more about the process they…

Written by Tyler Benedict April 22, 2021

Fezzari HQ Tour – Prototypes, concept drawings, assembly stations & more!

Fezzari Bicycles has grown into one of the largest direct-to-consumer bicycle brands by continually improving their designs and technology. Now, with numerous “Best Of” and…

Written by Tyler Benedict April 15, 2021

Vee Tire Co. Factory Tour // Part 2 – Sparking molds out of metal & blending the rubber

Vee Tire Co. is the performance bicycle tire line from Vee Rubber, which is a family owned rubber and tire manufacturer based in Thailand. We…

Written by Tyler Benedict November 05, 2020

Vee Tire Co. Factory Tour // Part 1 – From tree to tire, this is where rubber comes from

If you’ve ever wondered how bicycle tires are made, our three-part visit to Vee Tire Co. in Thailand will show you how, quite literally, the…

Written by Tyler Benedict July 02, 2020

Factory Tour: BBinfinite shows how they make one-piece, creak-free bottom brackets

Nestled at the back of an industrial office park in Little Rock, Arkansas, BBinfinite has moved all of their production in house. Here, they machine,…

Written by Tyler Benedict July 02, 2020

2020 Pivot Switchblade complete model & pricing overview + new HQ sneak peek!

For as long as Pivot Cycles has been creating industry leading bicycles, the company has called Arizona home. A relatively new company, Pivot was founded…

Written by Zach Overholt February 04, 2020

Factory Tour: How VanDOit turns Ford Transits into adventure-ready custom camper vans!

VanDOit has come on the #vanlife scene hard and fast over the past couple years, offering a modular custom camper van built on the Ford…

Written by Tyler Benedict December 31, 2019

Factory Tour: Kitsbow’s new North Carolina headquarters & factory!

Kitsbow had the industry in a stitch when they moved their headquarters from California to Old Fort, North Carolina. Housed inside an old hosiery factory,…

Written by Tyler Benedict December 26, 2019

Factory Tour: Inside 3T Cycling, how Torno carbon cranks are handmade in Italy & more…

Earlier this autumn, I headed to northern Italy to ride my second 3T Jeroboam gravel event in two consecutive weekends (opting for manageable 150km Magnum…

Written by Cory Benson November 21, 2019

Video: Rapha Cycling headquarters tour with founder Simon Mottram

Ever wonder what it’s like to work at one of the world’s most premium cycling apparel brands? While visiting London, we popped in for a…

Written by Tyler Benedict November 15, 2019

Factory Tour: How the 3Zero Moto MTB wheels are made at Zipp’s Indy HQ

“We like to solve problems. Whether it’s drag or pinch flats or anything else that slows a rider down, we like to figure out how…

Written by Tyler Benedict August 07, 2019

Workshop Tour: The story of steel MTB frame building with Starling Cycles’ Joe McEwan

Ex-aerospace engineer, Joe McEwan, is the man behind British mountain bike brand, Starling Cycles. While Starling do get some of their bikes, and parts of…

Written by Jessie-May Morgan July 12, 2019

Factory Tour: How Guerrilla Gravity can bring carbon manufacturing back to the States

A stone’s throw away from Mile High Stadium in Denver, CO, the team at Guerrilla Gravity is hard at work manufacturing high-quality carbon and SmashMoly…

Written by Michael Gushulak July 10, 2019

Silca’s Headquarters Tour will blow your mind in so many ways

From the over-the-top materials selection to the precision assembly and incredible attention to detail, this tour will both educate and entertain. And it should help…

Written by Tyler Benedict June 06, 2019

Video: Transition Bikes headquarters walk through with Lars’n’Bars

Transition Bikes is located in the amazing little town of Bellingham, WA, home of world-class mountain bike trails, plenty of pro riders, and several major…

Written by Tyler Benedict May 26, 2019

Man of Steel Giovanni Battaglin, shows us how to build modern Italian steel road bikes

A new 9-part video series from Italian bike maker Officina Battaglin’s offers a detailed peek into their workshop and how the company developed over time.…

Written by Cory Benson April 18, 2019

Workshop Tour: Five Land Bikes steel frame building set-up in Edinburgh, Scotland

Nestled away in the Pentland Hills just outside of Edinburgh, Scotland, Five Land Bikes are quietly making a name for themselves as quality steel bike…

Written by Jessie-May Morgan March 29, 2019

HQ Visit: Mission Workshop’s San Francisco shop and headquarters

Shortly after NAHBS, we road tripped south and stopped in San Francisco for a quick visit with our friends at Mission Workshop. Based in the…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 21, 2019

SRAM Headquarters Tour: Drivetrain development & more in Schweinfurt, Germany

While SRAM was founded and is based in the United States, they’ve managed to create quite a global footprint through both expansion and acquisitions over…

Written by Tyler Benedict December 24, 2018

Factory Tour: How Exept makes premium custom carbon monocoque road bikes

Exept made their formal debut at Eurobike 2018, showing off an impressive collection of race and endurance road bikes. More impressive, though, was their manufacturing…

Written by Tyler Benedict December 20, 2018

What’s the difference between handbuilt & machine built bicycle wheels?

Ever wonder what makes handbuilt bicycle wheels so special? Or what the alternative is? Are they worth the premium that some marketing implies? We visited…

Written by Tyler Benedict December 11, 2018

Factory Tour: How Northwave makes their high end cycling shoes in Italy

Northwave has long been known for their high end road bike shoes, which have found a home on some Bikerumor editors’ feet for the long…

Written by Tyler Benedict October 24, 2018

Hands on: Industry Nine A35 stem turns with precision from CNC machining

The latest piece of performance bicycle jewelry from Industry Nine has nothing to do with your wheels. Instead, I9 is living up to the new…

Written by Zach Overholt October 23, 2018

Factory / HQ Tour: Endura’s custom sublimated clothing is made in Scotland

Ever wonder how those full custom kits are made? Or maybe what digital sublimation printing means? That’s all in a day’s work at Endura’s headquarters…

Written by Zach Overholt June 22, 2018