Heyday Cycle Works · Denver, Colorado

The heydayis now.

Classic steel bicycles, built new. Made to be ridden every day and kept for fifty years.

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The Bluebird, a light blue step-through bicycle with a tan leather saddle

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Steel, brazed by handLugged frames, built in Denver
Made to be repairedEvery part is sold on its own
Thirty days to decideRide it, keep it only if you love it

The Bluebird

Step-through frame
Upright position
Leather saddle
Single speed
Cream tyres
28 lb

From $1,240

01 · Saddle

Leather that learns you

Vegetable-tanned leather over a steel rail, held by eight rivets. Firm in the first week, yours by the first month.

02 · Handlebars

Hands high, eyes up

Swept bars sit you upright, so you watch the street and not your front wheel. The bell is brass, and it is loud.

03 · Drive

One gear, nothing to adjust

A single speed behind a full chain guard. Nothing to tune on a Monday morning, nothing to catch your trousers.

04 · Wheels

Thirty-six spokes a wheel

Laced and trued by hand, on cream tyres wide enough for a bad road and a tram track.

Made to be repaired

Every part comes off. Every part can be replaced.

We sell each one on its own, with its drawing and the torque it needs. A Heyday is never finished, only looked after.

Colours

Five colours, mixed in house.

Powder coated in our own booth, twelve frames at a time.

The Bluebird in Bluebird

A woman rides a bicycle down an empty city street in the last light of the day

The long way home.

Upright, quiet and steady. For the city, and for whatever comes after it.

Meet the collection

The collection

The Lamplighter

Roadster with a dynamo lamp and a rear rack

Three speed hub
Dynamo lamp
Rear rack

From $1,480

01 / 09

Grey roadster bicycle with a headlamp, a rear rack and a tan leather saddle

Black vintage roadster bicycle with a headlamp and cream tyres

Black classic bicycle with a double top tube, standing on its kickstand

Teal cruiser bicycle with a tank, a wire basket and a brown saddle

Red delivery bicycle with a front basket and a sign panel in the frame

Small black bicycle with a sprung saddle

Cargo tricycle with a wooden box behind the saddle

Penny farthing bicycle with a black frame

Riders' notes

Said from the saddle.

I sold the car in March. I have not missed it once.

My grandfather had one just like it. Mine brakes better.

It is the only thing I own that gets compliments from strangers.

Eleven miles a day, in a dress, and I arrive dry.

They changed a pedal in ten minutes and charged me for the pedal.

I ride slower now. I arrive happier.

My daughter has already asked for it in my will.

Four winters outside a coffee shop and the paint still shines.

At your own pace.

Close view of a rider on a white bicycle with a tan leather saddle

Heyday Care

Looked after for life.

Frame guaranteed for life
Parts sold one by one
First tune-up on us

Bring it to the workshop or send us a photo. We will tell you what it needs, and what it does not.

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The workshop

One room. Four pairs of hands.

Every Heyday is brazed, painted, laced and assembled under one roof on Walnut Street. The person who builds your frame signs it inside the bottom bracket, where only the next mechanic will find it.

0parts in every bicycle, each one replaceable
0hours of work from bare tubes to the first ride
0signature inside every frame

A mechanic works at a bench in front of a wall of tools

Hands fitting a bottom bracket into a bicycle frame

Test rides

Ride one this week.

Forty minutes, any bicycle in the collection, on the streets you ride every day. We bring it to you in Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins.