Biria - Biria bikes are all about comfort. They are like mobile love seats. Climb on and roll across town. Revolutionizing the urban comfort bike with their step-through design, Biria has taken the beloved commuter bikes of Europe’s biggest cities and made them accessible for the American masses. If packing yourself into spandex and rocketing across town isn’t on your to-do list, Biria might just make the bike for you. Cruisers, 3, 7 and 8 speeds, all set up to get you there with poise and style. Biria bikes can also be outfitted with racks and fenders to make them into your do-everything errand bike.

Cannondale – Headquartered in Connecticut, Cannondale is an iconic American brand. What Colnago has been to steel and LiteSpeed has been to titanium, Cannondale is to aluminum. When most manufacturers were working and reworking their steel building processes, Cannondale was building the lightest, stiffest aluminum frames on the market, and they’ve never relinquished leadership in that category, even while moving into production on carbon fiber frames. Cannondale is quality from tire to stem.

Colnago - Legendary. It’s not even really possible to talk about Italian bicycles without mentioning the name Ernesto Colnago. Few frame builders in the history of cycling have had the impact that Colnago has, and his bikes just keep on rolling. As we all know, form is fleeting but class is permanent, and, with their distinctive and elegant design, Colnago is all class.

Felt – If there is a road bike maker with more great reviews to its name than Felt, we would be shocked. Born from a marriage of motocross engineering and triathlon aerodynamics, Felt succeeds by engineering from the ground up, rather than by reworking past designs. Consistently, Felt produces the lightest, stiffest bikes allowed under International Cycling Union rules, and they apply all the lessons of the labor that goes into that bleeding-edge technology in delivering bikes in every style and class.

Fuji - Named for Mt. Fuji, a symbol of Japanese strength, Fuji consistently delivers some of the strongest values on the road today. Few other manufacturers offer the breadth of size, style and fit that Fuji brings to market year in and year out. From high end carbon frames to kids’ bikes, Fuji has the goods. They’re never the priciest option, but they’re often the best one.

Jamis – Unlike many of the big European bike brands that started at the high end of road racing, Jamis began by making comfort bikes and evolved through mountain bikes into the road market. With a focus on value, Jamis has quietly established itself as one of the most well-rounded bike makers in the game, from youth bicycles with training wheels to carbon fiber race machines. Jamis doesn’t just want to sell you a bike. They want to see you ride, whether it’s a family ride down the bike path, a muddy romp on your local trails or a Cat II Sunday road race.

LiteSpeed – Litespeed is quite possibly the first name in titanium frame building. Originally a machine shop pioneering the manufacture of a brand new alloy, Litespeed proved that titanium could make extremely strong, light bike frames. Since then they’ve made titanium models for DeRosa, Merckx and an array of other top bike companies. If you’re talking titanium, they are simply the best, and now that they’ve turned their eye to producing carbon fiber frames as well the industry should be on notice.