I build custom bicycle frames
I am Wade, the Vulture of Vulture Cycles. I am a father, a frame-builder, a metal fabricator and a lover of wheels. Bikes are freedom to me. My place in the shop is natural - to cut and join metal into precision straight bicycles with flawless welds. I am fortunate to combine my experience and talents toward the goal of wind in your hair and pedal pedal, seeing the world.
All of my fabrication experience goes into creating rolling pieces of art, purpose-built to exacting specifications. But none of that matters without you - who you are and what you want gives me a reason to build. Fit is key, listening and understanding are my most important skills. I want to build you a bike that evaporates when you ride, but that you'll stare at for hours after your ride is done. High quality metal work and meticulous attention to body position accumulate to create a flawless riding experience. I build it, you ride it. Everybody wins.
Vulture Cycles was born of explosion and confusion-what to do next? Build frames and ride bikes. Keep it simple. Keep it real. Take experience from the bike shop and expand into new territory and then bring it back.
Vulture Cycles led me to metal fabrication outside the world of bikes - I learned the processes of welding and machining by working in fab shops that made race cars and airplanes. My teachers were the people I worked side by side with daily, talking welds and cut, grease and speed.
But all the while I built bikes for people - humans with all kinds of dreams and dimensions. These people are why Vulture Cycles exists again. I could spend my life building planes or bikes just for me, but my learning would be limited and then what would I have to share?
Pedal pedal, seeing the world at human-powered speed. Keep it simple. Keep it real.
