Some of the details on custom bikes you can't get in a production model. Image courtesy of Southwest Frameworks.
This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the finest custom bicycle builders from all over the Lone Star state (plus one honorary Texan from Philadelphia) will converge on Austin for the second annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show. The show is free and open to the public and will be a part of the Expo at the LiveStrong Challenge.
“We are excited to provide a platform to show off locally made, high quality custom bikes at a great venue, the LiveStrong Challenge,” said Glenn Thompson, the organizer of the Texas Custom Bicycle Show and the owner and frame builder of Daltex Handmade Bicycles. “I was happy to be a part of the show in our successful first year and am please to see it grow in size and diversity.”
Texas Custom Bike Show
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
Friday, October 23, Noon- 7 PM and Saturday, October 24, 9 AM- 1 PM
LiveStrong Expo, Austin Convention Center
Sunday, October 25, 8:30 AM- 5 PM
Dripping Springs Finish Line of the LiveStrong Challenge
The variety of design on head tube badges along is amazing. Image courtesy of Alchemy Bicycle Company.
Confirmed builders are Alchemy Bicycle Company, Bilenky Cycle Works, Crumpton Cycles, Daltex Handmade Bicycles, Dominion Bicycle Company, Gallus Cycles, Kirklee, Massengill Cycles, Southwest Frameworks, True Fabrication, Violet Crown Cycles, and Willits Brand Bicycles. These makers of hand built frames work in steel, titanium, aluminum, and carbon with styles as diverse as road, mountain, cyclocross, touring, track, 29er, tandems, cargo, and city bikes.
We’ll be bring you photos and interviews from the show, but in the meantime there is more info and short profiles of each of the builders at the Texas Custom Bicycle Show website. You can also follow the show and see photo galleries from the builders at their Facebook page.
Each part of the bike is hand crafted by the builders. Image courtesy of Daltex Handmade Bikes.
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on Oct 24th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Rumor has is that PRO CYCLE WORKS, Austin’s own, is going to be roaming around at the TCBS. Keep an eye open!!!
PCW is, without a doubt, THE FINEST bike shop!
Ride hard!