2026 Made Bike Show: Josh Ogle’s V3 Titanium Full-suspension

Josh Ogle’s v3 titanium full-suspension build at MADE was one of our favorites. Ogle's fabrication and design experience spans a range of disciplines, from race cars to Swiss watches, and that crazy level of detail shows up everywhere on this special show bike. 

While the 3D-printed lugs, manufactured at SILCA’s Indianapolis HQ, are certainly the stars of the show, the wildest part has to be the brakes. Instead of running normal flexible hydraulic hoses inside the frame, he hand-bent rigid 1/8-inch titanium tubing that he sourced from the aerospace industry. He routed the hard lines straight through the frame, and because the high-pressure tubing is rated for up to 4,200 psi, there is zero flex, giving the brake levers a precise feel.

The rest of the bike is packed with Easter eggs and uber-engineered details. The frame uses 3D-printed titanium lugs, and Ogle added custom graphics right into the metal throughout, like Pac-Man, Japanese graffiti, Godzilla, and even torque specs. 

The cockpit is anchored by his own "Fat Man" stem, a beautiful titanium piece that weighs less than 100 grams. And if you look closely, you’ll notice the headset top cap is machined with a miniature scale map of his home base in Durango, Colorado, which takes him an hour to carve on a CNC machine. 

Even the chainring has a nod to the old-school arcade game Asteroids. It’s a work of art that could fit in an aerospace lab just as easily as on singletrack in southern Colorado. 

The bike's suspension is built around the patented 3VO (3 Virtual Objects) multi-link platform from Ministry, offering 150 mm of rear travel through custom-machined titanium linkage and a hand-fabricated rear assembly. It's meant to keep the suspension active even under heavy braking. 

For the finish, Ogle left the 3D-printed titanium lugs raw and unpainted, showcasing the unique texture of the additive manufacturing process. He then had various sections anodized by the team at Agave Finishworks. 

This wild level of execution makes sense within the context of Josh's 30-year career in the cycling industry. He started building bike frames in Eugene, Oregon, in 1992, eventually expanding into the cult-favorite brand Jericho Bicycles in 1997. 

But around 2007, he took a decade-long hiatus from the cycling world to hone his technical skills elsewhere. He spent years fabricating exhaust systems and roll cages for high-end race cars, and trained in miniature CAD design and precision CNC-machining for luxury Swiss mechanical watches. 

When he finally returned to bikes around 2017 to contract-machine innovative parts for his friends at Firefly Bicycles, he brought that watchmaker-level precision. Today, operating out of Durango under the Ogle Component Design banner, he blends traditional manual fabrication with cutting-edge 3D metal printing, making things that might look too good to actually get dirty.