Last night was Movie Night at Mellow Johnny’s, a series of weekly events they are trying to continue at least through bike month. This week’s movie night featured local framebuilders in person along with some other custom bikes from various builders. One bike there was a Hetchins, a beautifully kept vintage bicycle from England featuring [...]
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Texas Framebuilders Section Added to Sidelinks
Over the last several months, we’ve begun producing profiles of local framebuilders like KirkLee and True Fabrication. To help you find a great local maker of hand built bicycles, we recently added a new section on our sidebar links listing all the Texas framebuilders we are aware of with active businesses. Here’s a quick rundown [...]
The birth of the hand-built bike industry in Texas
Passion. That is the common word I heard from everyone I interviewed at the first Texas Custom Framebuilder’s Show in Fricso this last Saturday. It was obvious from all my discussion that no one gets into custom frame building for the money. It is an often hand to mouth affair that many must hold a [...]
Pictures from the Texas Custom Framebuilder’s Show
I made it up and back to Frisco (waaaay north Dallas) on Saturday to visit the Texas Custom Framebuilder’s show, the first show of fine makers of hand built bikes in the state of Texas. And I made it there and back without killing my children (always a positive.) Below is a slide show of [...]
