Pimp Your Ride
These in-demand custom bicycles are built right here.
D
on’t buy your bike off the rack before checking out the little-known Geekhouse Bikes, which creates sleek, slightly retro custom-made steel-framed fixed-speed, cyclocross, road, and touring bicycles out of a tucked-away garage at scattershot hours. The custom design and fabrication process includes a special environmentally friendly “sugar coat” coloring technique that produces vibrant hues. Founder Marty Walsh and his team have fans and buyers among artists and cyclists all over the world, but are mostly unknown around their hometown. Templeton
Shhhh! Geekhouse teamed up with New York wallpaper artist Dan Funderburgh to create the “Obamabike,” which they sold on eBay to raise money for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
Shhhh! Bikes are colored using a plastic powder
that’s melted onto the parts, rather than wet
enamel. It’s more durable and greener because
no solvents are used when switching colors.
that’s melted onto the parts, rather than wet
enamel. It’s more durable and greener because
no solvents are used when switching colors.
Shhh who knew
The first major bicycle factory in the United States opened in 1897 at 219-223 Columbus Avenue in the South End.
15 West Sorento St.
Allston,
MA,
02134
617.777.2088
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