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Blueprints On File: Hollingsworth Light Tourer

Blueprints On File: Hollingsworth Light Tourer

The Hollingsworth is a model that has been stewing away in the back of Royal H Cycles for a few years. The name is actually what the H in Royal H stands for and this light tourer has been a family collaboration between Bryan Hollingsworth and his Uncle Pete.

Royal H Cycles Old Man Sweater Rando

Royal H Cycles Old Man Sweater Rando

Sure, it’s a funny name. And the geometry might not be what you’re used to seeing either. But the story behind the latest build from Massachusetts’s Royal H Cycles is one of a very tall customer who needed a bike that only a custom frame builder could supply. The paint? That was, indeed, inspired by…

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Royal H Cycles Constructeur

Even Bryan Hollingsworth of Royal H Cycles admits this was a BIG PROJECT. For any framebuilder, attempting to replicate the work of masters such as…

Royal H Cycles Chauncey’s Rando

With every frame Bryan Hollingsworth builds, he gets closer to the essence of Royal H Cycles. Bryan started RHC five years ago, in 2009, and…

A Pair of Royal H Cycles

Surely one of the true tests of a marriage would be a tour on a tandem. Each partner would discover, if they hadn’t already, the…

Royal H Cycles Tourer

The family tree of New England bicycle manufacturing is a twisted and winding plant, and each branch is a story in itself. Bryan Hollingsworth is…

Royal H Cycles Blurple Rando

‘Blurple Rando’ may be a colloquial title, but it refers to a very serious machine. After years of riding a Pashley Guv’nor around and taking…

Royal H Cycles Philly Show Bike

Bryan Hollingsworth’s entry to this year’s Philadelphia Bike Show suitably answered each of the ‘Artisan / Activist / Alternative’ criteria. It’s a fully dressed road…

Royal H Cycles Show Bike

The New Amsterdam Bicycle Show kicked off yesterday, and one of the featured exhibitors is Massachusetts builder Bryan Hollingsworth of Royal H Cycles. From the…

Royal H Cycles White Cross

This ice queen is the latest composition from Bryan Hollingsworth at Royal H Cycles in Massachusetts. There’s one positive aspect to the blizzards dropping piles…

Royal H Cycles

You probably recognize the Somerville, Massachusetts-based Royal H Cycles from the time trial bike that blew the blogs away during November, with that amazing rear…