Damien likes bikes…lots and he’s been working with metal since he was a kid (Thanks dad, this is all your fault.) Following up a degree in art (sculpture to be precise), Damien went to the United Bicycle Institute in Portland to learn all the finer points of frame design and construction.

As a general rule of thumb, Damien’s bike may very well be beautiful, but they are meant to be ridden, hard, and crashed. He doesn’t really consider them to be art as they are functional and as a good former art student would tell you art has to be for it’s own sake. These are for the freakin’ fun of riding.

As to riding hard and racing, to quote the man himself, “I can’t make bikes go fast, but I can make bikes that go fast.” He’ll leave the making bikes go fast up to all you racers out there who want to win races for him.