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Blu Dot x Handsome Bike

January 15 2017

Blu Dot has long been a staple if you're looking for reasonably priced modern furniture. Now the Minneapolis-based company is applying its popular design aesthetic to the bicycle, in collaboration...

Handsome Cycles Shifts Online to Connect with Customers and Fuel Growth

November 18 2015

The pair has been crafting and assembling beautiful bikes since they opened shop in Minneapolis in 2008. Local cycling aficionados might have seen their lineup in bike shops around...

If The Masters of the Art World Designed Bikes, They’d Look Like This

November 18 2015

What would a bike by Claude Monet, or Frank Stella look like? To celebrate a museum’s 100^th birthday, Handsome Cycles tried to find out.

Handsome Cycles x MIA

November 18 2015

These days, the design, colour and effect that is applied to a frame plays as much of a starring role as the groupset or accessories that are installed upon...

Museum Masterpieces Ride On As Bicycles

November 18 2015

The Art Bikes, as designed by Handsome Cycles, celebrate a major Minneapolis Institute of Art anniversary.

When Art Meets Transport: Stylish Bikes Inspired by Works of Art

November 18 2015

To celebrate their 100th birthday, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) teamed up with Handsome Cycles to create three different bicycles customized to look like famous paintings from the...

Handsome Cycles Creates Art Bikes for Minneapolis Institute of Art

November 18 2015

Minneapolis is renowned for being one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world, and as such, cycling culture runs deep through the city’s cultural bloodline.

Handsome Cycles Makes Artwork that Works

November 18 2015

The cyclery rose to the challenge, delivering three bikes that are not only fully functional, but also are impressive works of art; they challenge what a bike can be,...

Announcements

The Decision To Re-Become Ourselves

Posted on January 6 2019 at 03:14 PM

January 06, 2019

A Reflection: Jesse Erickson

Co-Founder / CEO

It was disruptive, yet all so familiar.

In 2015, we decided to make a major change in the way we made bikes. We instructed our trading agents in Taiwan to inform our assembly factory that we would no longer be needing their services. It was a big decision because it meant that from then on, we would be...

Handsome Holiday Market 2018

Posted on November 9 2018 at 03:42 PM

We have transformed our studio space in the Thorp Building for a great holiday pop-up shop. Now through December 21st from 12pm to 3pm, visit us to get awesome holiday deals on designing a customized bike for your loved one, purchase accessories, apparel, and home gifts.

Handsome Cycles - Events Marketing Manager Position
Posted on August 14 2017 at 12:59 PM

2017 Trade-Up 4 Kidz Program Details
Posted on April 19 2017 at 10:11 AM

WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?

We have a great love for what the Free Bikes 4 Kidz program is doing for kids in need and their parents around the U.S. and particularly in our back yard of...

Handsome Cycles x Mia: Art Bikes
Posted on November 18 2015 at 11:03 PM

Artists are problem solvers. They bring new solutions to problems of surface, color, and design.

The Minneapolis Institute of Art approached Handsome Cycles with the opportunity to create three custom bicycles inspired by masterpieces of their collection, bringing the works of art into a modern context. The project brought together some...

NYC is Handsome
Posted on November 18 2015 at 11:03 PM

The above video is just a teaser for the premiere of "NYC is Handsome - On The Streets with Gabriel Frilando" a short film based in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York City.

The project is a collaboration between Jonathan Chapman / JCP and Minneapolis based Handsome Cycles. Jonathan Chapman and his crew are award-winning Minneapolis...