Posts under ‘Austin Bicycle Industry’

“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles If you are a regular reader of this site or attended the Texas Custom Bicycle Show in October, you know I built a new bike for the show, a travel version of my La Salle [...]

The North American Handmade Bicycle Show is coming to Austin in February, and this week they released their promotional poster for the event. I was happy to see my friend and fellow framebuilder James Flatman of Alchemy Bicycle Company is the featured builder on the poster. Congrats to James on the much deserved recognition! To [...]

It’s been way too long since I updated the A2W bike shop map and guide, a contact list and interactive map of all the bike shops in Austin. Since Christmas is right around the corner, I wanted to make sure everyone had current information on where to get bikes and accessories. We’ve also had some [...]

Yesterday, we posted audio from the first framebuilder roundtable at the 2010 Texas Custom Bicycle Show. Today, here is the second roundtable which included Brad Cason of KirkLee Bicycles and Dimitri Harris of MEECH Custom Bikes. Framebuilder Roundtable #2, Part 1 of 3 Framebuilder Roundtable #2, Part 2 of 3 Framebuilder Roundtable #2, Part 3 [...]

The weekend of October 16-17, 2010, framebuilders from all over Texas and beyond descended on Austin for the third annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show. In addition to all the great show bikes and cyclocross racing, I hosted two framebuilder round table discussions on Day 1 of the show. The idea was to expand on the [...]

I’m still a little bleary eyed from all the prep and work that went into the Texas Custom Bicycle Show this weekend, but in short the show was great, and thanks to Glenn Thompson, the show organizer, it continues to grow every year. I’m impressed with the variety and skill of builders we have in [...]

Saturday, the Texas Custom Bicycle Show will kick off at the Austin Music Hall, and Austin On Two Wheels will be adding a new program to the show this year with two Q&A framebuilder roundtable discussions. These will be conversations with some of the builders about what got them into building, what goes into building [...]

The Texas Custom Bicycle Show is coming up this weekend, and Glenn Thompson, the show organizer, let me know they still need some volunteer help with the show, especially for Sunday during the cyclocross race. If you are available and want to help with this great show of locally produced bikes and accessories, please contact [...]

In a followup to yesterday’s post about the bike I’m building for the Texas Custom Bicycle Show, here’s a cool poster the show came up with. Feel free to download and distribute the printable version and let others know about this locally make goodness.

The Texas Custom Bicycle Show is just 10 days away, and I’ve been liternally burning the midnight oil to get the show bike down for my Violet Crown Cycles booth. For the show, I decided on building a travel randonneur bike with some special features. As the bike is designed to breakdown into a regular [...]