Patch on Bikes
Patch Road Tests Renovo Hardwood Bicycles
We get an exclusive chance to test ride the wooden bikes that are shaking up the roads in Marin, the Renovo Hardwood Bicycle. This ain't your great-granddad's penny-farthing, and it ain't your grandma's coffee table.
The Marin cycling world is abuzz over the latest arrival on the local bike shop scene: Renovo Hardwood Bicycles. So what's all the fuss about? The wooden bikes on the roof rack atop a wood-paneled station wagon in front of the shop on Bridgeway in Sausalito provide the answer. Shop founder Ken Wheeler, along with his showroom partner, a party-colored Standard Poodle named Elwood, splits his time between Marin and his first shop in Portland, where his team of 10 build these artistically rendered creations by hand. With sloping top tubes and the same aggressive geometry you might expect on the latest top-of-the line carbon frames, Renovo bikes look like they could be museum pieces, or in a symphony orchestra. My first question was the same …
