{"id":91931,"date":"2025-08-24T08:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91931\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T08:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:37:17","slug":"it-doesnt-get-more-portland-than-a-fillet-brazed-ira-ryan-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91931\/","title":{"rendered":"It Doesn\u2019t Get More Portland Than a Fillet Brazed Ira Ryan Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking inspiration from the Bullitt mustang and barn swallows it doesn\u2019t get more Portland or more classic than this Ira Ryan bike<\/p>\n

Published August 23, 2025 01:53AM<\/p>\n

The MADE Bike Show<\/a> is a showcase of handmade bicycles. Nothing about that means the bikes featured have to follow any particular theme and yet many of them seem to coalesce around off-road riding. This Ira Ryan bike bucks that trend as well as any other modern trend instead following the classic sensibility of a steel bike but with a slight twist.<\/p>\n

The classic lines are all there. The lightness, the airiness, everything you love about a steel bike as you imagine what it once was. Then the twist is that with all that call to the classic highlights, it\u2019s thoroughly and effortlessly modern.<\/p>\n

\"Ira<\/a>(photo Josh Ross\/Velo)<\/p>\n

The frame starts with details you won\u2019t notice. You can\u2019t see in the pictures and you can almost miss it even in person. It\u2019s the kind of thing that\u2019s there if you know yet disappears if you don\u2019t. What I mean is that the top tube and downtube aren\u2019t just any steel.<\/p>\n

\"Ira<\/a>(photo Josh Ross\/Velo)<\/p>\n

There\u2019s new old stock True Temper OX tubing used in the top tube and downtube. You can\u2019t buy it anymore but it\u2019s prized for framebuilding because it\u2019s shockingly light while also resisting fatigue when heated. This is forever steel while also being unobtanium.<\/p>\n

\"Ira<\/a>(photo Josh Ross\/Velo)<\/p>\n

This magic steel is also not round. Further balancing weight and stiffness the top tube is tapered while the downtube is bi-oval. There\u2019s performance benefit, already mentioned, to both but there\u2019s also an aesthetic quality that helps keep the eye moving with a flow from one place to the next.<\/p>\n

\"Ira<\/a>(photo Josh Ross\/Velo)<\/p>\n

Ultimately, that\u2019s what an Ira Ryan bike is all about. The head badge is a barn swallow and, if you give him the opportunity, Ryan will talk your ear off about days training as a youth while watching the flow of swallows in the air. His bikes, this one included, are specifically designed to flow in a way that gives the rider that same fluid feeling of movement. Which is then visually represented in the tube shapes. It\u2019s a beautiful thing to ponder.<\/p>\n

\"Ira<\/a>(photo Josh Ross\/Velo)<\/p>\n

Fortunately that classic steel feel and look doesn\u2019t come with the mechanical components of years past. Ryan\u2019s bikes use modern details and the groupset here is SRAM RED AXS levers and brakes paired with SRAM Force front and rear derailleurs. The saddle is a Specialized S-Works Power Evo 3D printed piece and it sits atop an Enve carbon seatpost. At the front of the bike is an Enve carbon road stem and an Enve carbon AR bar.<\/p>\n

\"Ira<\/a>(photo Josh Ross\/Velo)<\/p>\n

The wheel package starts with another Portland local company. Both front and rear are Hifi carbon wheels with a 38mm depth and shod with, tan wall of course, Vittoria Corsa Pro tires.<\/p>\n

\"Ira<\/a>(photo Josh Ross\/Velo)<\/p>\n

For the final details things start with a classic callback in the paint. Inside it looks black but if you can get it in just the right lighting you\u2019ll find a deep forest green applied by Colorworks and based on the Steve McQueen classic Bullitt Mustang. To really set that paint off there\u2019s chrome highlights from Wolftooth and Chris King Ti bottle cages with matching titanium Bivo water bottles inside.<\/p>\n

\"Ira<\/a>(photo Josh Ross\/Velo)
\nIra Ryan bikes purchase information<\/p>\n

As with most of what\u2019s shown at the MADE bike show, Ira Ryan is not a huge company but rather a small one man shop who will happily share a tomato from the garden during a consult.<\/p>\n

This Ira Ryan bike is a race oriented road bike called the RD-D Fillet. Pricing for something like it will run you around $12,800 and you can find more information at the Ira Ryan Cycles website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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