I first spoke to Bridge Bike Works co-founder Michael Yakubowicz in November 2023. I’d already heard about his Canadian brand doing something intriguing up north, since handmade carbon bikes from Canada are a rarity. In fact, I can’t name a single well-known brand that still manufactures domestically.
At the time, Bridge was generating some buzz not only for being a Canadian-made carbon frame builder, but for doing it with a big-brand approach and debuting some intriguing innovations along the way.
(Image credit: Anne-Marije Rook)
This isn’t your typical “made-in-the-garage” passion project. From cutting their own tooling to hand-laying the carbon fibre and meticulously applying detailed paintwork, everything happens under one roof at the brand’s 8,200-square-foot facility in Toronto.
Perhaps most buzz-worthy is Bridge’s industry-first technology: the Integrally Threaded Carbon Bottom Bracket, where the threads for the bottom bracket shell are moulded directly into the carbon lay-up. No metal insert, no sleeve. The result? A lighter, stiffer, and supposedly creak-free system.
The buzz, the big brand facilities, and the innovative tech were all very impressive for a new company with just one bike model. Naturally, we were intrigued.
Yakubowicz suggested that the best way to understand the brand was to ride the product, and offered to build me a test bike in my size. I happily accepted. But between production tweaks, ISO testing, and the general whirlwind of starting a new bike company, it wasn’t until September 2025 that I finally swung a leg over a finished Surveyor.
Yakubowicz brought an exquisitely painted frame to the MADE bike show in Portland and let me hold onto it afterwards, encouraging me to ride it hard, on pavement and gravel, with knobbies and slicks, and everywhere this one-model, do-it-all bike was meant to go. I didn’t need to be told twice.
Meet the Surveyor
(Image credit: Anne-Marije Rook)
Five years since its founding, Bridge Bike Works still makes just the one model: the Surveyor. They call it the “n+1 destroyer….