A lot of custom bikes rolling through here lately. If you dig these you can check out some previous bikes I shot here and here. If you missed it, you can also check out the video I did on Jordan Hufnagel for Level Magazine here.

Hufnagel and Argonaut are both Portland builders I shoot regularly. DeSalvo is a well-known builder from Ashland who I’m told cranks out a ton of high-quality builds, many of them (the below bike as well) in Titanium. Nice, very different bikes from all the guys. Check them out after the jump.

Portland has a huge community of hand-built bike builders, many of whom are world renowned, building custom bikes for people all over the world. I started shooting some stuff for Jordan Hufnagel last year, and since then a few of his cohorts have hit me up for shots of their bikes when they’re completed. Two weeks ago there were 8 or 9 bikes in the office over the course of the week, as the guys had all just returned from a hand-built show in the mid-west. Before the bikes were sent to the owners, they got photographed in the studio.

I like bikes, and I like building things, so these bikes are fun to shoot. The details on each bike are totally different, so shooting them is almost like shooting portraits of people. Here are a few shots from last weeks shoots. The bikes are by Hufnagel, Courage, and Argonaut. If you’re in the market for a custom bicycle, definitely check those guys out. Quality stuff.

I shot a few more bikes recently in the studio for Hufnagel and Argonaut, two of the many kick ass handbuilt bike builders here in Portland. One of the detail shots is above (showing the Hufnagel headtube badge). The other shot of Ashley Charles is from a few months back, inside an unused portion of a parking garage at one of the malls here in Portland. We got in and out super quick (he got the feeble grind done first try) as it was super loud in there. When we were leaving we all split up and I was walking back to my car when I noticed three police officers on Segway’s speeding in the direction of the rail. I heard one of them say “I think they’re over here.” I just kept walking and giggling. Mission accomplished.

More bikes in the studio today, this time from Argonaut Cycles… another Portland hand built bicycle company. Nice stuff. Hand built bikes are big up here in rainy country.