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It’s the sort of a press a new company dreams of. A few months ahead of the $8,975 Allied Alfa custom-made carbon-fiber frame bicycle rolling off the HIA Velo assembly line, Rodale’s Bicycling magazine has given the model its March cover and a full-tilt rave review. (HIA stands for Handmade in America.)
From Ron Koch’s cover story:
In February 2016, [HIA Velo founder Tony] Karklins (who had left Orbea two years prior) gathered a few cycling-passionate investors and purchased the carbon-fiber manufacturing machinery of the bankrupt Canadian bike maker Guru (which won a Bicycling Editor’s Choice award for its Photon road bike in 2010).
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