We are a custom bicycle manufacturing company creating custom frames one by one with love, logic and elbow grease since 1998. The bicycle is the most amazing thing to us. We work with them and ride them every day and yet they never cease to amaze. We love that with a few simple tools, we can create something that will take you around a velodrome in only a few seconds or around the world at just the right speed. It is our goal to build bikes that not only get you from A to B, but make sure you arrive out of breath and with a monster size grin on your face.

Sam Whittingham

Founder, designer and builder for Naked Bicycles 
Sam has worked in bike shops and learned to weld, design, machine and paint long before he put together his first frame. He has spent years racing and perfecting bike fit and riding analysis for various disciplines. The first Naked frame was built for Sam’s good friend  in 1998, and that bike is still being ridden daily. Here are some of Sam’s thoughts:

I spent many beautiful days riding my bike as a kid and the joy has never left me. Racing found me when I was 15 and led to many accomplishments. I have tried my hand at road racing, mountain bike racing, recumbent racing and track. I have done RAAM, triathlons and extended touring.

I worked as a bike mechanic for years in my late teens and early twenties so I definitely know my way around the back end of even the ugliest bike part.

I worked for years as a designer and painter for many of Canada’s top theatres and still tap those dramatic creative juices in all my builds.

I was born and raised here on Quadra Island. Come visit, we’ll go for a ride.

Memory Lane

Some of our first bicycle build pictures. This was a looong time ago!

Some fun pictures from our World Record days!