Damien and Becky started Clark Custom Cycles to fill a void both in the local economy where there needed to be some local frame builders and in our own lives where outside jobs have very often wore us down with little reward. (definitely not a void in our free time which neither of us ever [...]

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 [...]

Oh yeah, it’s here again. Gotta love a good cross season. For those uniniated into the grand world of cyclocross it is sort of a wacky hybrid between road racing, mountain biking, and a running steeplechase. As our good friend James Johnson once said (and another influence on the bike’s name), “Cyclocross is 45 minutes of [...]

Here’s the deal, everything that is done to the latest carbon and aluminium bikes is done to make them ride like steel. For better or worse they got that one right when they started to build these two wheeled human powered vehicles, everybody just needs to get back to their roots. Fillet Braized Fillet Braizing offers [...]