A hero I was glad to meet

Warren Rossiter remembers Bob Parlee of Parlee Cycles, who passed away in September

Bob Parlee – founder of Parlee Cycles – died peacefully at home with his family in September after suffering with cancer for four years. Bob began applying his knowledge of composites and engineering to bicycles in the late ’90s, following a successful career building high-performance carbon fibre racing boats, By the end of 1999, he and his wife Isabel had quit their day jobs and set up their own bike brand. Word spread quickly about the unique, ultra-light and high-performance bikes coming out of the Parlee workshop on the North Shore of Boston. Parlee became the name in custom carbon framesets, and his work remains the high watermark of carbon frame building. Parlee debuted the first sub-900g frame in 2004 and took on the biggest brands in the world with…

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Cycling Plus (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2025

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