Now is your chance to try the Cephal in the wild!

Calfee Design, Unbound! Look for us June 3rd to 5th at the Unbound Gravel event next month! Calfee design will be showcasing our handmade products and new bike build plus a chance to ride a Calfee Adventure bike. Plus Calfee Design returns to the mountain bike scene with a brand NEW CEPHAL. Come find our booth in the expo to view our latest offerings! Calfee Design Adventure Bikes Calfee Cage Stoker Stem Additional Calfee products will be available at our…

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Calfee Customer Profile: Jim Takasugi, Electric Retrofit

A look into the electric retrofit. Our recent customer Jim Takasugi had his Volagi Liscio2 retrofitted with our rear conversion system. He has done a wonderful job at describing his thinking that lead him to Calfee Design and his experience using the the retrofit system.  Link to his article here. Short excerpt below from Jim ... "Luckily, I eventually found the perfect builder, Calfee Design, to integrate and install the components into a cohesive road eBike.  As you may know,…

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20 Years Of Employment

In the year 2020, it has been difficult to find reasons to celebrate, but at Calfee, we found a way! On Friday October 9th 2020, Calfee stopped production to acknowledge four individuals who have been working here for twenty years, WOW! With boxes of pizza, salad, chips, and desserts, it was a very special time to slow down and appreciate those who have helped us continue our level of excellence for so many years. From Juan in Tandem Production, Augusto…

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18.5k Miles on Calfee Bamboo

On July 4, 2010, Joost Notenboom and Michiel Roodenburg, began a 20 month bicycle journey from Deadhorse in northern Alaska to the Antarctic Peninsula south of Ushuaia. Their mission was to take one bottle of icy Alaskan water from the Beaufort Sea down to the seas around Antarctica in a symbolic effort to complete the natural water cycle and raise awareness for the global water crisis that is leaving over 1 billion people around the world without access to safe and…

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Calfee Design At 2019 NAHBS

From Cycling Tips, a photo mention of Calfee Design products at the 2019 NAHBS in Sacramento California, carbon bottle cages and Bamboo products. "You didn’t think we were done with NAHBS, did you? Our coverage of the world’s premier showcase of custom bicycles has obviously now intermingled with our tech coverage of the Sea Otter Classic, but there’s no reason why the two worlds can’t peacefully co-exist, at least temporarily. This fourth — and final — gallery from NAHBS focuses…

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Turning Bamboo Into a Bicycle

A cycling entrepreneur has turned to the durable plant as a low-tech and affordable option for building bikes Bicycle designer Craig Calfee likes to talk about the time a film crew tried to stress-test one of his bamboo bike frames. Three men—each weighing about 200 pounds—piled onto one of the two-wheelers in his California showroom, and off they went. The ride didn’t last very long.... Read More at the Smithsonian Magazine

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Feedback: Our Frames

Don't just take our word for it! There's more than a few words of feedback from our enthusiastic customers. Jason, We love the bike. The handling and ride is very similar to the Dragonfly. The Dragonfly’s ride is a bit more lively, and feels a bit less harsh.   The difference is subtle and I  expected it given the different carbon fiber. Having not ridden both bikes with the same wheels and tires it  also may not be a fair comparison.…

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