Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Bishop Bikes is a bespoke bicycle manufacturer based in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded by Chris Bishop, a highly-skilled frame builder, the company creates custom-made bikes using traditional techniques and the latest materials.

The emphasis is on a clean, modern aesthetic and precise attention to detail. Each bike is built by hand, and is tailored exactly to the customer’s needs, measurements, and specifications.

Bishop bikes can be used for many types of riding, including road, gravel, cyclocross, track, city/commuting, and randonneur.

In addition to his signature lugged and fillet-brazed bikes, Chris Bishop now also builds full-custom, TIG-welded frames, featuring the same quality as the lug and fillet-brazed frames, but at a more affordable price point.

Bishop Bikes Randonneur

The Randonneur that Chris Bishop revealed at the 2012 NAHBS is a bright orange beauty that combines old-world elegance with modern and distinct details that…

Bishop Bikes Dura-Ace Track

Looking at these images of Chris Bishop’s craftsmanship, I can’t help but be reminded of its similarity to a fine hand made watch. The idea…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Bishop Bikes Singlespeed

Another framebuilder anxiously anticipating the 2012 North American Handmade Bicycle Show is Chris Bishop, although from the glimpses we’ve seen, he has the situation in…

Bishop Bikes Jinbok’s Cyclocross

Chris Bishop recently assembled a rare set of tubes by Italy’s Gilco Design, creating a cyclocross frame for an LA customer. The unusual profile lends…

Bishop Bikes Chris’s Cyclocross

Chris Bishop certainly hasn’t been resting on his laurels since the 2011 NAHBS in February, his blog is a constant tease of progress shots and…

Bishop Bikes Leigh’s Track

Chris Bishop is a deft hand at creating frames that are deceptively simple until, upon closer inspection, wondrous details are revealed that demonstrate his superb…

Bishop Bikes Green Machine

While the rest of the blogging world celebrate the accolades showered over Bishop Bikes for their exemplary track-based creations, old-school mountain bikers may rejoice: Chris…

Bishop Bikes NAHBS Track

After receiving well-deserved adulation at this year’s NAHBS, Chris Bishop’s green track machine has been photographed by the incredibly talented John Fabrizio, and he’s done…

Bishop Bikes Supercross

There’s a mystical camaraderie that exists between bike messengers, but that’s not why I feel particularly awestruck by Baltimore’s Chris Bishop’s craftsmanship. There’s a level…