Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

John Caletti has been building frames since 2004. He now runs Caletti Cycles in Santa Cruz, California, which is housed in a certified “Green Building”.

Caletti Cycles offers complete bikes, handcrafted from titanium or steel, and fitted out with the customer’s choice of parts and finish.

The range includes both road and gravel bikes, plus the popular Scrambler — a flat-bar bike with a reduced head angle, positioned somewhere between the gravel and commuter bike genres.

Caletti are also known for their eye-popping finishes, inspired by retro skate and moto design.

Sprinkles To The Metal: Caletti Cycles Donut Scrambler

Sprinkles To The Metal: Caletti Cycles Donut Scrambler

Most cyclists, like Homer Simpson, are partial to the sugary joys of a donut and if you know of one that isn’t, perhaps you should point them towards the Caletti Cycles Donut Box Pink Scrambler and see if that doesn’t whet their appetite.

Santa Cruz Gold: Caletti x Kille Adventure Road

Santa Cruz Gold: Caletti x Kille Adventure Road

As the dust from NAHBS 2019 finally settles and everyone starts coming back to earth, we can begin to look at some of the more spectacular show bikes in detail. Caletti Cycles and artist Jeremiah Kille went all out on this metallic canvas.

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Caletti Cycles Red Cap Project

If you’re a cinema buff, you might be starting to recognize some visual references in the theme of the latest bike from John Caletti: the…

Caletti Cycles Ti Road

Artists are brave people. Not all of us has the guts to display on white walls what goes on inside our imaginations. It’s an interesting…

Caletti Cycles All-Road

Leaning up against my living room wall, waiting for a moment when I’m not riding, is an old Santa Cruz skateboard: Steve Alba’s Voodoo deck,…