Posts under ‘Bicycle Frame Builders’

“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden,Violet Crown Cycles
In April during one of my first ventures to the Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market with the Violet Crown Cycles tent, I met an individual who loved the look and functionality of my Ferguson city bikes but really [...]

This weekend, the Oregon Manifest kicked off with their Oregon Manifest Constructors Challenge contest and race. The Oregon Manifest, their hand built bike show, has expanded this year from a long weekend highlighting local builders to a six week celebration of all things bicycle related. The schedule of events puts our annual Bike Month celebration [...]

“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden,Violet Crown Cycles
Earlier this month, I wrote about the randonneur bicycle, a French style light touring bike, I designed and built for Marcus. It came back from powder coating a few weeks ago, and I built it up but [...]

I am helping the founder of the Texas Custom Bicycle Show organize and promote the three day exhibition of fine hand built bikes coming to Austin, October 23-25. The event is entering just its second year, and we are trying to make the show really big this year so that it can be an ongoing, [...]

The Texas Custom Bicycle Show is coming in five weeks, and as a warm up several local builders will be meeting this evening for a Framebuilders Happy Hour. They’ll be showing off some of their latest work, answering questions, and end up with a social ride (if it doesn’t rain on us!) If you are [...]

The Texas Custom Bicycle Show is less than six weeks away, and to whet your appetite for locally hand made bicycles, the Austin frame building community is holding hopefully what will be the first in a series of Austin Framebuilders’ Happy Hours. Local builders will have examples of their latest work, be on hand to [...]

UPDATE: A Facebook page has been created for the Texas Custom Bicycle Show so if you want to keep up the latest on the show and see cool pictures from exhibitors, you can join as a Fan of the show here.
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I’ve been working with Glenn Thompson, the owner of Daltex and founder of the Texas [...]

“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles
To followup on my initial post in this series on frame building, I wanted to share some of the work and challenges that went into designing a randonneuring bike for Marcus, my co-editor. The frame went [...]

Though Dominion Bicycle Company is a relatively new addition to the Austin frame building scene, company owner and builder Scott Ross is anything but a newbie when it comes to building bikes or working with his material of choice, steel. His experience with the material shows in artfully built bikes that function as well on [...]

“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles
On Friday, I dropped off my latest custom city bike to the customer. She choose the Ma Ferguson, the step through “woman’s” style to replace a her recumbent. She had gotten the recumbent for comfort but [...]