Posts Tagged ‘Bicycle Frame Builders’

Editor note: James Flatman is no longer a part of Alchemy Bicycle Company. Economic woes be damned, business is good at Alchemy Bicycle Company these days. Framebuilder James Flatman is weathering the storm fine with a traditional build-anything-you-want full custom approach that has yielded a surprisingly steady customer cue for one of Austin’s newest hand [...]

With Hanukkah in full swing and Christmas just around the corner, those with two wheeling significant others may be scrambling to find something that will be appreciated. Similarly, cyclists may be looking for ideas to plant in others heads. To help you through this giving season while supporting local Austin businesses, we’ve put together this [...]

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 [...]

Editor’s note: This article is a continuation in a series of articles we are doing to profile Texas handbuilt framebuilders. A few weeks ago I stopped by the north Austin workshop of framebuilders Cody Baron, Clark Davidson, and Cole Thompson, the team behind True Fabrication, one of Austin’s great local bike brands. I spoke with them about [...]

Bike Portland is reporting on a new ad campaign by Northwest Community Credit Union which features Portland framebuilder Tony Pereira of Pereira Cycles. Not only are there some cool shots of his workshop shop (which make the 40+ hours of to build a frame look easy) but cyclocross makes an appearance at the end reminding [...]

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series of articles we are doing to profile Texas handbuilt framebuilders. Life is good right now at KirkLee. In just over 12 months, framebuilder Brad Cason has taken a  framebuilding business that was just an idea and generated a tremendous amount of buzz as an up [...]

I was just over at Bicycle Sport Shop’s site and was very happy to see they are sponsoring a ride with Gary Smith and Joe Ingram of Independent Fabrication next Friday, January 30 at noon starting from the South Lamar store. As an aspiring framebuilder, I’ve really admired Independent Fabrication’s story as an up and coming [...]

Waiting, waiting, waiting. Today, I arrived in Niles, MI to start my frame building class with Doug Fattic. Unfortunately, Doug has symptoms of the flu and decided to rest most of the day in hopes of starting the class tomorrow. I’m anxious to get started and see if I can actually do this thing already! [...]