Had this Argonaut Cycles custom built road bike, complete with integrated electronic shifting, in the studio the other day. Nice internal wiring, custom paint meeting polished stainless steel, and fancy removable (changeable) dropouts. Nice stuff. You can check out a few more shots after the jump. The bike was built for a tradeshow, and it’s for sale, so if you’re in the market for a bad-ass custom machine, and you’ve got a few grand (okay, almost 12) kicking around, go get it. You can see previous “bike portraits” here (you’ll find further links from there as well).

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.

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.