It’s Hard to Catch Up with Sam Whittingham
The founder of Naked Bicycles has spent much of his life way ahead of others, whether it was pursuing human-powered speed records or pioneering new ideas in bike design. Eventually, people come around. And so does Whittingham, back around to his roots
Sitting at the end of a narrow winding road, behind the swinging gate to a communal property shared with, among other residents, free-roaming horses, sits Naked Bicycles. It’s here, in a small workshop on Quadra Island passed down through the family, that Sam Whittingham has created a remote frame-building laboratory.
Inside the workshop, a . . .
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