The big convention hall room filled with beautiful bikes for the Handmade Bike Show.

The cutest commuter bike by Yipsan. Won NAHBS best city bike award.

The second best city bike by Vanilla.

The most beautiful bike there by Cherubim. Stainless steel everything, a seat made of rails, silver handlebar wrap, and look at those brake levers! This bike won President's Choice.

A 24k gold plated bicycle made by Peacock Groove. Notice, the rear dropouts are cut-out like a peacock. Sweet.

Perfect paint by Llewellyn.

Perfect powder and stainless steel lugs by a new builder - Mosaic. After building frames for Dean Cycles for 6 years, the owner/builder started his own framebuilding company in July.

Pegoretti bikes not only have exceptional craftsmanship, but are also hand painted. Although the paint was applied with textures, the 24 layers of clear coat make the tubes smooth.

In my opinion, Banjo bicycles have the best head badge. They play banjos and wear tweed suits. They make kinetic sculptures (like Arthur Ganson) and all have red hair. Strange. Oh yes, and they collectively make touring and city bicycles incorporating as many mediums and techniques as possible, including wood fenders and collapsible racks.

A wonderful titanium bike with interesting aestheics: titanium etched stipes meeting painted stripes that wrap around the cable stop.

Villin Cycles plays with metal. This is an example of their hammered lugs and fluted seatstays. They also etch and bend metal parts for their bikes. It makes you wonder, "What is that?"

Vanilla Cycles shipped in many parts of their workshop and set up demonstrations of work in progress. If you were wondering, this is how you can shape lugs. Interesting...

Look at that craftsmanship! It doesn't get better than that! This is a stainless bike with silver brazed fillets. Amazing!

More amazing craftsmanship by Bilenky. I think the guy in the picture told me that he spent 100 hours on lug shaping for this bike.

This Danish framebuilder brought the bicycle down to simple physics. With this braking system, you actually pull the cable to brake, no brake lever necessary. Also, the wooden handlebar grips can be removed and replaced with various decorations. He also makes hubs with the same function so your bike components can match.

Bring it back with Dromarti leather cycling shoes to match your Brooks saddle and shellacked handlebar tape.

Wood composite bicycles with stainless, internally brazed lugs. Pretty inventive. Each bike is made of a different combination of wood to accommodate for different bodies and riding styles.

A bike from Japan. No, it does not fold. The design is solely for shocks and tiny 20" wheels.

A Brompton folding bike. Really easy to fold and unfold. All 30,000 bikes per year are made by hand by 100 builders in England. For a train commuter, this would be a great purchase for $1400.

Ted Wojciak's lawnmower bike. Newark City Parks & Grounds should upgrade.