This Saturday was the 47th incarnation of Frankenbike, Austin’s monthly bicycle and bike parts swap. I’m building a randonneuring bike for Marcus and a road bike for myself, so Marcus and I headed up to Hammerhead Bikes, this month’s host, to look for some low cost, lightly used components before we buy new. Not only did we score some great high polish aluminum drop bars and stems for less than $15 total, I also found a set of horizontal dropouts with eyelets for rack/fender mounts for $5. These are not easy to find mind you. In fact, I usually have to get mine from a frame parts place in England. You never know what you’ll find at Frankenbike!

Hammerhead recently moved to a lot on Burnet Lane (just east of Burnet Road) and have built a very cool pump track in the front. Back when we did the profile of True Fabrication, Cody Baron, the owner of Hammerhead and part of the trio at True Fab, invited us to come to the bike shop once they got settled in to check it out. We like what we see, and look for a profile of Hammerhead later in the summer.