Posts under ‘Bicycle Frame Builders’

This last weekend was the 4th Annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show at the Austin Convention Center. In addition to previous exhibitors, we saw 5 new exhibitors reflecting the growth of framebuilding in Texas and beyond. There we lots of great bikes and locally made accessories. Look for the show to return next fall but maybe [...]

This Saturday and Sunday the Texas Custom Bicycle Show will be bringing framebuilders and bicycle accessory makes from the Lone Star State and beyond to our fair city. Since its humble start at the Frisco Velodrome in North Dallas four years ago, the show created by Daltex‘s Glenn Thompson has grown each year with over [...]

“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles It’s been a while since I shared a customer build from Violet Crown Cycles, but this recent project was both challenging and satisfying in that I got another person on a useful bike that they’ll [...]

I got a call from my fellow frame builder Brad Cason at KirkLee this morning with some bad news. Someone broke in and has made off with six of his bikes. A couple of them were from his booth at NAHBS this year and one was featured in Bicycling Magazine. Please read below and keep [...]

Yesterday, the 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show wrapped up in Austin with awards given for the best bikes from the show. Austin based carbon bike maker KirkLee took home the honors for Best Paint Job with their version of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night painted on a frame. Congrats to Brad Cason and his [...]

Today is the final day of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show at the Austin Convention Center with bicycles on display from framebuilder from all over the US. On Day 1, I was only able to cover 1/2 the floor (yes, the show is that big and that awesome.) Here are shots from the other [...]

The North American Handmade Bicycle Show continues today at the Austin Convention Center with framebuilder from all over the US in Austin. Here are some shots I took from Day 1 including my favorite bike so far, a beautiful randonneur bike with wicked cool integrated lighting built by Herbie Helm. I’ve also included some pictures [...]

The North American Handmade Bicycle Show begins today at the Austin Convention Center with framebuilder from all over the US descending on Austin with all manner of two wheeled creations. While I’ll be exhibiting, I’ll also be shooting pictures and sharing each day. Here is a gallery of shots from the yesterday’s pre-show parties including [...]

The North American Handmade Bicycle Show starts tomorrow, and the Austin American Statesman did a nice write up on some of the local Austin builders including my friends at KirkLee, True Fabrication, and Alchemy Bicycle Company. They also wrote a bit about my framebuilding company, Violet Crown Cycles. I specialize in building custom city bikes [...]

This weekend, hundreds of custom bicycle framebuilders and bicycle companies from all over the US will descend on Austin for the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. I’ll be exhibiting there myself with Violet Crown Cycles. Here’s a quick guide the show, some of the parties going on, and info on some of the local Austin [...]