Who am I? My name is Will Hilgenberg (He/Him) and I am currently building bikes under the Albatross Bikes moniker. Up until recently, we were based out of Santa Cruz, CA but have recently relocated to the Bothell, WA area.

I worked in the OEM side of the bike industry and decided to start building frames and designing products on the side to develop the ideas that wouldn’t work for the OEM-scale businesses but could work on a smaller scale. This started with some frame projects and eventually developed into me running Albatross Bikes as a side project.

Right now we are continuing to develop new products such as UDH dropouts, Modular Chainstay Yokes, as well as a few other products for the framebuilding world