Our Stories

Our wheels take riders to amazing places. From epic climbs to the top of race podiums, these are our stories.

What made MADE?

Photo from TheRadavist https://theradavist.com/2023-made-bike-show-review/ With the show over and the dust settled, we’re back in the office, settled in, and looking back. If you’ve followed any social media or attending media in recent...

Custom Creations - Keeping it Local with Sage Titanium

We’re stoked to share this killer ride form our long-time friends at Sage Titanium. Based right up the road in Portland, Oregon, Sage make classic and classy Ti builds with modern, progressive, aggressive, fun designs for modern rides. This Storm King was built-up...

Bikes We Ride - Robert's Orbea Avant

We’d love to say Robert, our international sales and customer service guru, moved to a disc brake roadframe to improve his riding (and stopping) experience in our PNW winters, but his stubborn refusal toride with us in the rain suggests otherwise. If that’s cowardice or...

Bikes We Ride - Kenny's Colorful Specialized Allez Sprint

It is always a bit strange posting self related content as the person behind our social media but nonetheless it is neat opportunity to show another bike and style of our team. So here we go! I walked into my local bike shop...

Bikes We Ride - Dylan Gillespie's Featherweight with Ares 6/TT Disc

Pro Triathlete Dylan Gillespie is one of our heroes. Devoted husband, brother and son, engaged community member, one of the hardest working athletes you’d ever meet and best of all – an genuine, kind and caring human. Heck, if Dylan wasn’t a super human athlete, we’d...

Francesco Magisano's First Ever Blind Ultraman Completion

First off, give us some background – give us a brief rundown on who you are and what you’re up to.My name is Francesco and I’m a totally blind triathlete. I was diagnosed with retinoblastoma which is a form of eye cancer when I was a baby. This left me with...