It’s easy to get overwhelmed at the MADE bike show. It’s the biggest handmade bike show in the world, and everywhere you look, there’s something for the eyes to feast on. So I arrived early, long before the gates opened to the public, while the show was still being assembled. The industrial barge building of Portland’s Zidell Yards echoed with clanking metal, the buzz of electric drills, the beeping of a forklift backing up.
Among the early arrivals was a DeAnima dealer. His show bikes, propped on wooden display shelves, caught the morning light pouring in from the hangar’s side door.
