Important things for you to know:

• S’mittens will be back in limited and colorful numbers.
• We will also have some of Natalie’s block prints, including one brand new (and quite large) addition.

It’s the holidays people.  Let’s do this thing.

This beautiful unpainted custom road bike 1) has a 50.5 cm seat tube 2) is waiting for your favorite color, and 3) is for sale.  If you are around 5′5″ you (or someone you love) could be riding this in time for the spring season.  Available as a frame only ($1600) or as complete bike (more than $1600).  If you are interested, please contact us here.

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The little color chart we have on the LUST page didn’t really do an awesome job of communicating just how deep this color is.  Hopefully this helps.

I think that the choice of green handlebar tape is inspired.

(Photos by Daniel Sharp Photography)

A few months ago, we announced our LUST Line and with it our first model The Little Black Dress.  The LUST Line is a faster way to get a Sweetpea – bikes are delivered in months, not the three years for a custom bike.  We did this in order to get more women on bikes that fit, but also because three years is a LONG TIME.  For us, and for you.  We needed a way to deliver bikes faster and more predictably, and this is it.

The good news is that we are now taking orders for our second batch.  If you are interested, give us a call or contact us here.

One Percent For the Planet | Sweetpea Bicycles from felt soul media on Vimeo.

The folks over at 1% For the Planet are doing short member profiles with some help from the gang at Felt Soul Media (who incidentally did the awesome film Red Gold).  We are stoked that they chose to profile us, as well as give Greta her internet video debut.  They do a great job of capturing why we 1% members, but we also feel pretty lucky to share a little space on the internet with our business hero Yvon Chouinard.

When we joined, there wasn’t even a cycling category.  Today, in addition to the 52 participating Oregon companies, there are also a bunch of great local cycling companies who are also 1% members.  (See: Team Estrogen and Tsunehiro Cycles)

Show and Tell PDX, May Edition – Sweetpea Bicycles from Substance on Vimeo.

It’s an ambitious goal. And today we’re going to take it one step further.

Like all custom builders out there, we have been students of the craft honing the design and fabrication of the bikes that we build. This takes hours of work, effort, and imagination. But we have also spent years studying the language of the body on the bike. Any builder can tell you that fabrication skills take years to develop. And any bike fitter can tell you that you need to do hundreds of bikes fits to understand the intricacies of the body on a bike. It is kind of like learning how to be a machinist and physical therapist at the same time.

And it’s something we have been doing this for the last four years.

Today we are announcing the Lust line: a limited production run of bikes that incorporate all that we understand about the relationship between women’s bodies and their bikes.

(Prototype)

A project more than a year in development, the Lust line is going to start with the release of our most requested bike: The Little Black Dress This design is informed and inspired by the ideal riding positions of real women and offers an elegant alternative to the standard bike shop fare. It won’t work for everyone, but it will work for a lot of women.

The best part: these bikes will be less expensive than our custom options and they will be delivered in just a few months.

LEARN MORE about the design process and the LUST line here.

Well this month, we are whispering “we’ve been here for years.”  Outside Magazine has included Sweetpea Bicycles in this month’s DIY article entitled “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen* (And one badass bike-building gentlewoman.)”  Natalie covers what goes into a Sweetpea, what makes us different, and how a bike can fit like a favorite pair of jeans.  

Momma said check it out.  

If you are interested in a Sweetpea, but think that waiting a year and a half for a bike is absurd, we encourage you to send us a note by clicking here. We got something cookin’ that you might be interested in.

From helmets, to media companies, to clothing, to custom builders, they did a really fantastic job of covering the whole bike ecosystem in Oregon, it’s challenges, and it’s opportunities.  

We really appreciate all of the vibrant and unique bike businesses that we have in town. It makes living here all the sweeter.  

The article can be found here.