Builder Profile: Curtis Inglis | Retrotec + Inglis
October 6, 2008
Oregon Manifest is a handbuilt bike show on October 10th-12th in Portland and we're profiling some of the builders who will be there.
Curtis Inglis is a duo-themed builder who creates cruiser-styles bikes under the name Retrotec and traditional straight-tube bikes under the name Inglis. Though Curtis enjoys the building process for all of this bikes, he says he experiences a magical moment when working on the Retrotec bikes, "There is something about bending tubing until you get a certain look. When all the bends flow together and make a bike not just a bike with curved tube."
Curtis says he gets "a real pleasure in meeting the person that will be doing the work for me. I enjoy connecting a face to something I want or need," and so he loves being on the other side of the exchange and working with the people for whom he builds. "I get to build people their dream bikes," he says.
Curtis has been building bikes for 15 years and has created well over 275 bikes. So for the last few months he has been digging through photos and junk in his drawers to put together materials to comprise his Oregon Manifest display. He loves Portland and is excited to come up from Napa, California for the show.
"I feel pretty lucky to be doing something for a living that I love," he says.
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Posted by orbike at October 6, 2008 10:17 AM
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Oregon Manifest looks rad. I'm there for sure.
Posted by: Brett Thompson at October 6, 2008 8:55 PM
Man I'm hearing about this festival everywhere these days. I guess I gotta go, huh? Looks like this here curtis makes some nice bike.s i'll look for you at the fest. what does it cost for a bike like that?
Posted by: kelley at October 9, 2008 3:41 AM