<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=022Uce_1H2k51Te00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=022Uce_1H2k51Te00" width="750" height="430" ></figure><p>This week, my guest is Steve Hampsten, the man behind Hampsten Cycles. While Hampsten Cycles may draw its fame from Steve’s brother Andy, the only American winner of the Giro d’Italia and Tour de Suisse, Steve has been in the bike industry for more than 30 years. He has worked in and around framebuilding for at least 20 years.</p><p>While Andy’s role in the company has been to help conceive of models and dial in geometry, Steve is the workhouse behind the brand. In addition to personally dealing with all clients, he oversees production, sources the contractors who build their bikes and even packs the bikes when they are ready to head to their forever homes. Because he has forged alliances with everyone from Co-Motion to Moots to Parlee, his reach in the industry is deep, and his reputation is sterling.</p><p>When playing drums in a rock and roll band didn't turn at to be as lucrative as he'd hoped, Padraig left his hometown of Memphis to pursue an MFA in poetry at UMASS Amherst. Writing about his other love, bicycles, seemed a natural progression; certainly it paid better than either poetry or rock music. His work has appeared everywhere from Bicycling Magazine to the LA Times. His feature, "My Day With Ilya," won a Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing. These days he lives in Sonoma County, California, where he attempts to inspire his two demitasse ninja with the wonder of bikes. Favorites: flavor: maple; wine: Boheme Pinot Noir; beer: Russian River Pliny the Elder; neurochemical: dopamine; poetry: Andrew Hudgins; fiction: Thomas Pynchon; music: David Sylvian; comedy: Firesign Theater; event: 8-Hours of Wente.</p></div></body>

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This week, my guest is Steve Hampsten, the man behind Hampsten Cycles. While Hampsten Cycles may draw its fame from Steve’s brother Andy, the only American winner of the Giro d’Italia and Tour de Suisse, Steve has been in the bike industry for more than 30 years. He has worked in and around framebuilding for at least 20 years.

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This week, my guest is Steve Hampsten, the man behind Hampsten Cycles. While Hampsten Cycles may draw its fame from Steve’s brother Andy, the only American

The Pull: Steve Hampsten of Hampsten Cycles

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