The Pull

The Pull

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The Pull episodes

  • The Pull: John Caletti of Caletti Cycles

    There are pockets of the U.S. that seem to generate a gravity specific to certain crafts. The California Bay Area has produced frame builders to a degree found nowhere else in the United States. Alberti Eisentraut, Bruce Gordon and Rock Lobster’s Paul Sadoff all built their careers in the Bay Area. Santa Cruz has contributed more artisans to the craft than any other community in the Bay Area. Frame Builder John Caletti hails from Santa Cruz and had the fortune to learn from many of the area’s craftsmen before striking out on his own with Caletti Cycles in 2004.

    As a one-man shop, anyone who orders from John deals with the man himself. Caletti offers a wide range of models including road, gravel and mountain, with some grayer areas thrown in. He works in both steel and titanium, but he’s best known for his titanium work.

    Caletti is an affable guy who’s easy to talk to and supportive of other builders, so much so that he offers a Frame Builder’s Summit in which he imparts his more than two decades of experience to newer builders working to make that transition to building full-time.

    Any time I visit Santa Cruz, I never fail to see a Caletti on the road.

    1 hr 6 min
  • The Pull: Todd Ingermanson, Black Cat Bicycles
    On this week’s show, my guest is framebuilder Todd Ingermanson who is part of a relatively rare set of artisans known for crafting nearly any sort of bike. While many builders base their business on mostly (or even exclusively) doing just one thing, such as road bikes, Ingermanson, under his label Black Cat Bicycles, has […]
    54 min
  • The Pull: Todd Bertram of R+E Cycles
    For my second new episode, I’m excited to welcome Todd Bertram, the head builder for R+E Cycles.  R+E got its start way back in 1973 when it was founded by Angel Rodgriguez and Glenn Erickson. Rodriguez and Erickson along with Bill Davidson can be credited with putting Seattle on the frame building map, so to […]
    1 hr 10 min
  • The Pull: Mark DiNucci
    If you wanted to find the American who made the most profound impact on the ride of steel road bikes in the last 30 years, it would be hard to find a person more influential than Mark DiNucci. As an engineer for Specialized Bicycle Components, he was instrumental in creating the steel Allez which went […]
    39 min
  • The Pull: Rob English of English Cycles
    Of the many frame builders I have written about and interviewed over the years. Rob English of English Cycles may be one of the most creative. The fact that he works in steel fillet brazes his frames means that he’s unconstrained by the lug angles that typically curtail a builder’s creativity.  During the years of […]
    52 min
  • The Pull: Damon Rinard
    On this week’s show, my guest is Damon Rinard, the engineering manager for road bikes for Cycling Sports Group. Rinard has more than 30 years’ experience in the bike industry. He came to prominence as a result of his work for Cervelo where he was instrumental not just in developing what were some of the […]
    28 min
  • The Pull: Brad Bingham
    On this week’s show, my guest is framebuilder Brad Bingham. He’s been called the finest TIG-welder in the world. Bingham rose to international prominence as a result of his work as a welder for Kent Eriksen Cycles. He has won the best welding award at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show for each of the […]
    40 min
  • The Pull: The Cycling Addiction by Phil Cavell
    Phil Cavell wants to help you. He’s spent an entire career as a bike fitter, philosopher, researcher, teacher, racer, writer and connector of specialists across the cycling spectrum. His first book, The Mid-Life Cyclist, examined the current generation of middle-aged cyclists, literally the first generation to attempt to be good at bikes well past its […]
    56 min
  • The Pull: Allen Lim
    Allen Lim has spent his career guiding athletes to their best possible performance. From the UC Davis Cycling Team to grand tour riders, Lim’s career as an exercise physiologist was focused on helping solve problems athletes had. Nearly accidentally, Lim began making his own drink mix to help athletes, and out of that effort Skratch […]
    51 min
  • The Pull: Gabriel Lang
    This week I interview 2018 NAHBS Best in Show winner Gabriel Lang of Altruiste Bikes from New Brunswick, Canada. Lang won with a long-travel 29er that was truly unique among the bikes shown at the show. In this, our second episode, we talk to him about his background as a builder, how he got his […]
    34 min

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The Pull is a podcast devoted to one-on-one interviews with artisans about their craft.