WE ARE BIKE HEADS OF ALL VARIETIES OFFERING INSIGHT, SKILLS, AND EXPERTISE AT ALL PHASES OF DESIGN, PRODUCTION, FINISH AND ASSEMBLY.
We are not a conventional bicycle manufacturer. Our bikes are fabricated one at a time and we continue to be 100% designed and built in the USA, right here in Portland, Oregon. We may bring in help outside of Oregon, but our aim is to keep our frame making domestic. When finishing a build we do our best to use American made products whenever possible and appropriate.
Think of musicians who team up to write and play songs. Each individual has a unique style and sound they explore with their instruments, and depending on who they work with they will discover novel and beautiful forms of expression.
That’s analogous to how Page Street Cycles operates. A team effort, using our best skill sets to fabricate rad bicycles.
WHY
PAGE STREET?
Around 2005 Joseph Ahearne of Ahearne Cycles moved into a dilapidated old building on N. Page St., a quiet two-block long road in near-in North Portland. At the time, the neighborhood had its old Portland character and rents were cheap. As the years passed, shop mates came and went, and the neighborhood evolved. Bike lanes were installed on the arterial roads into and out of deeper North Portland, and more bicycle related businesses arrived, including Metropolis Cycles and Breadwinner Cycles.
In 2012, Christopher Igleheart of Igleheart Custom Frames and Forks moved in and set up shop.
Ahearne and Igleheart split the space and shared tools, each making bikes under their own names. From the beginning they compared notes, shared ideas and helped each other brainstorm projects, each contributing their specific frame builder superpowers.
In 2015 they decided to collaborate on an all-road touring bike, and joined forces under a common name: Page Street Cycles. As a team they brought together over fifty years of collective bike making experience.
With Igleheart’s official retirement from bicycle making in 2022 the Page Street brand had to shift gears (pun intended), rethinking what a bicycle company could do, and be.
Collaboration is at the heart of what Igleheart and Ahearne did, and this is what lives on today. In this spirit of cooperation, Page Street Cycles continues formulating, designing, and hand making bicycles for people who want to ride.
