Steel bicycles are back. After 30 years in the bike wilderness, when first aluminum, and then the ubiquitous carbon fiber, became the frame metal of choice, steel is, rightfully, back in fashion.
Led at first by a small group of artisan bespoke-bike builders, the original custom steel bikes proved so popular that factory models have followed. For example, Ottawa’s Steelwool bicycles was born in 2006 when Thom Johnson and Will Ficner, frustrated with the lack of quality steel bicycles, decided to do something about it and … More