Steel Bicycle Frames

Steel and stainless steel frames and bikes, mainly fat bikes, 29er and 650B mountain bikes and cyclocross bikes, plus its own fat-bike hubs, offered in stock sizes or custom.

Made in: Grand Rapids, MI (frames welded and hubs machined in its own shop, using West Michigan suppliers).

Source: Freehub Magazine, checked 10/2026

One-person custom frame shop building lugged and fillet-brazed steel and stainless steel bikes, mostly road and touring, including frames for hard-to-fit riders; it also teaches two-week framebuilding classes.

Made in: Shelburne Falls, MA (frames and forks built by hand in the former Lamson & Goodnow complex; building since 1999).

Source: Greenfield Recorder, checked 10/2026

Dave Anderson builds custom lugged and fillet-brazed steel and stainless steel frames, forks and stems, including road, cyclocross, gravel, all-season and tandem bikes, each made to the rider's measurements and also offered as complete bikes.

Made in: St. Paul, MN (frames built by hand in his one-person shop). Tubing comes from outside suppliers such as Columbus, Dedacciai, KVA and Reynolds. His site says he is not taking new orders at this time.

Source: Anderson Custom Bicycles, checked 10/2026

Custom steel road, track and gravel frames built one at a time by Chris Bishop, noted for brazed details and layered paint finishes.

Made in: Baltimore, MD (frames built and finished in Bishop's shop). Frame tubing such as Italian Columbus steel and the components on finished bikes come from other makers.

Source: Radavist, MADE 2026, checked 10/2026

Custom steel bicycle frames built to each rider's measurements by Todd Ingermanson, including hardtail mountain bikes, gravel and all-road bikes. He paints the frames himself and builds roughly 35 to 40 bikes a year.

Made in: Aptos, CA (frames built and painted in his home workshop).

Source: Bikepacking.com, checked 10/2026

Custom steel and stainless steel bicycle frames by Dave Bohm, built lugged, TIG-welded or fillet-brazed from Columbus, Reynolds, Tange and True Temper tubing. He also runs a framebuilding school.

Made in: Tucson, AZ (frames built in his shop since 1994).

Source: S&S builder profile, checked 10/2026

Lugged steel randonneur, touring and all-road bicycles built one at a time by Brian Chapman, with custom racks and paint done in his shop. Builds include fendered randonneurs, loaded tourers and tandems.

Made in: Rhode Island (frames, racks and paint).

Source: Bikepacking.com, checked 10/2026

Custom steel bicycle frames, forks, stems and racks for road, track, cyclocross, touring and mountain riding, each sized to one rider. Frames can be fillet brazed, lugged or bi-laminate.

Made in: Golden Valley, MN (frames and parts built by owner Joel Greenblatt in his shop). Tubing comes from several makers, including Italian Columbus and Dedacciai.

Source: Clockwork Bikes ordering page, checked 10/2026

Custom steel bicycles by Johnny Coast: randonneur, city, mixte and road frames, often lugged and silver brazed, plus custom components. A limited run of production frames is offered each season.

Made in: Brooklyn, NY (frames and components built in his own shop). Tubing options include Italian Columbus and Dedacciai and Japanese Kaisei.

Source: Coast Cycles ordering page, checked 10/2026

Fully custom lugged, silver-brazed steel frames for road, cross/hybrid, touring and mountain riders, including 650 wheel frames for smaller riders, plus stainless steel stems and the Quikchainger chain catcher. Since 1979.

Made in: Mendocino, CA (frames, stems and braze-on parts made in its own shop).

Source: Columbine frame shop page, checked 10/2026

Custom steel frames by Doug Curtiss for road, gravel, cyclocross, touring, mountain (hardtail and full suspension), fat bike and tandem riders. Frames can be fitted with S&S or Ritchey travel couplers.

Made in: Winthrop, WA (frames built and powder coated in his one-man shop). Tubing options include Italian Columbus and Dedacciai and British Reynolds.

Source: Curtlo about page, checked 10/2026

Custom steel and stainless steel bicycles by David Johnson, mostly road and cyclocross frames in Columbus, Dedacciai or Reynolds tubing, with matching steel stems, racks and forks. Paint is done in-house.

Made in: Hendersonville, NC (frames brazed and painted in his shop). Carbon forks, when chosen, are bought in.

Source: Our State, checked 10/2026

Fillet-brazed steel bicycle frames by Eric Doswell, mainly mountain bikes plus road and cyclocross frames, using tubing such as True Temper OX Platinum and Columbus Life. Newer frames offer thru axles and T47 bottom brackets.

Made in: Tulsa, OK (frames built by hand).

Source: The Spoken, checked 10/2026

Steel adventure, touring and cyclocross bicycles, including the National Forest Explorer, built as custom orders and small batch runs by Glen Copus and John Speare, mostly from Columbus Zona steel tubing.

Made in: Spokane, WA (frames built in Copus's workshop).

Source: The Radavist, checked 10/2026

Jeremy Shlachter builds custom steel bicycle frames and complete bikes one at a time, lugged or fillet-brazed, for road, track, cyclocross and randonneur riding; a small-batch randonneur model is also offered.

Made in: Denver, CO (frames built in the Gallus shop; the business began in Fort Worth, TX in 2009). The builder says he sources materials in the USA where he can.

Source: Gallus Cycles, checked 10/2026

Rick Hunter builds custom steel frames for mountain, touring, bikepacking, cyclocross and cargo use, plus forks, stems, racks and small parts such as bottle cages.

Made in: Bonny Doon, CA (frames welded or brazed and most dropouts and fittings made in his Santa Cruz Mountains workshop).

Source: Bikepacking.com, checked 10/2026

Jonathan Greene builds custom steel frames and framesets, each designed around the rider who ordered it. Examples include gravel and cyclocross bikes with clearance for tires from 28mm up to 45mm wide.

Made in: Oviedo, FL (each steel frame is built by Greene in his own shop).

Source: Gravel Cyclist, checked 10/2026

David Kirk builds custom lugged and fillet-brazed steel road and cyclocross framesets, including the JK Special series in Reynolds 853 and 953 stainless tubing, and makes dropouts and small parts.

Made in: Bozeman, MT (frames and framesets built by Kirk in his own shop).

Source: The Radavist, checked 10/2026

Custom-fitted steel framesets built from Columbus tubing (Spirit, Genius, Nemo and Niobium tubesets) for road, track and cyclocross/gravel riders. The shop has built frames since the 1970s and fits each frame to the rider.

Made in: San Marcos, CA (frames built in the Twin Oaks Valley shop).

Source: Gravel Cyclist, checked 10/2026

Custom brazed chromoly steel frames from builder Charlie O'Leary, mostly road, touring and gravel or commuter roadster bikes plus some mountain bikes, often for riders who are hard to fit; the shop also does powder coating.

Made in: Santa Fe, NM (frames brazed and powder coated in its shop).

Source: Santa Fe Reporter, checked 10/2026

Custom steel frames and complete bikes by Steve Rex, mainly fillet-brazed and lugged road, touring, gravel, hardtail and tandem bikes, plus frame repairs, since 1987.

Made in: Sacramento, CA (frames cut, brazed and painted by the builder in his own workshop).

Source: Comstock's Magazine, checked 10/2026

Lugged steel road racing and cyclocross frames with matching steel forks, built by Richard Sachs, who has worked alone since 1972 and now also sells frame-building kits and lugs.

Made in: Warwick, MA (frames built by hand in a one-man shop; previously Chester, CT). Complete bikes use bought-in Italian components.

Source: Richard Sachs FAQ, checked 10/2026

Custom steel frames by Bryan Hollingsworth: lugged road, randonneur and touring bikes (including S&S-coupled travel frames), fillet-brazed gravel bikes, and commuters.

Made in: Somerville, MA (frames built by hand in a small Boston-area shop).

Source: Boston Cyclists Union profile, checked 10/2026

Soulcraft is Sean Walling's frame shop, building custom steel frames for mountain, road, cyclocross, 29er and singlespeed riding, including the Royale road model. Walling previously worked at Bruce Gordon Cycles and Salsa.

Made in: Petaluma, CA (frames built by Walling in a workshop on a farm).

Source: BikeRadar interview, checked 10/2026

Stanridge Speed is Adam Eldridge's steel frame shop, known for track and road frames such as the Highstreet, plus custom builds. He also launched Wraith Fabrication, a US-built line of Columbus-tubed road and cyclocross framesets.

Made in: Columbus, OH (Stanridge frames mitered, brazed, finished and painted in his shop). Some Wraith frames have been built by contracted outside builders.

Source: The Radavist shop visit, checked 10/2026

One-person shop building custom steel bikes for touring, randonneuring, commuting and tandem riding, with lugged or fillet-brazed frames and forks, matching racks and custom stems. Builder Corey Thompson has worked since 2009.

Made in: Olympia, WA (frames, forks, racks and stems built by hand by the owner). Tubing and parts are bought in.

Source: Thompson Custom Bicycles, checked 10/2026

Walt Wehner builds one-off custom steel frames and forks, best known for 29er and larger-wheel mountain bikes, plus fat bikes and full-suspension frames, and also road, cyclocross, cargo, commuter and tandem frames.

Made in: Salt Lake City, UT (TIG-welded steel frames built by the owner himself).

Source: Cycling West interview, checked 10/2026