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In The Press

Below are listed a few awards and articles about Rideable Bicycle Replicas on the web and in print:

Inside the Bay Area - The Oakland Tribuine

Article "Alameda shop makes high wheelers with eye to history"

Mercury News

January 2013
Article "Alamedan passionate about retro-style bicycles, sells them worldwide"

Lamorinda Weekly

Article "High above the Crowd" featuring athlete Steve Meagher and his Penny Farthing highwheel...

CBS 5 magazine show "Eye on the Bay"

RBR featured on the February 11, 2010 episode of the CBS 5 magazine show "Eye on the Bay" Video episode titled "Mom & Pop Factories"

USLBA 2008 Best of Alameda Award

The U.S. Local Business Association selects Rideable Bicycle Replicas for the
2008 Best of Alameda Award in the Highwheel Bicycles category.

East Bay Express "Best of" Award

The East Bay Express awards Rideable Bicycle Replicas the
"Best of the East Bay '08"...

Alameda Magazine

May-June 2008
They may seem out of the ordinary, but the bicycles at Alameda-based Rideable Bicycle Replicas—the high-wheeled, brakeless novelties of the 1870s—are actually called ordinaries...

Alameda Sun

March 2008
Greg Barron stopped keeping up with the latest fads and never looked back — a somewhat logical decision for a guy deriving most of his livelihood from something that went out with the stereopticon...

Rideable Bicycle Replicas

2329 Eagle Avenue, Alameda, California 94501


Phone: 510-769-0980 | Fax: Fax: 510-521-7145

info@hiwheel.com​​​

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