Posts Tagged ‘framebuilders’

As a teaser for next week’s Bicycle Film Festival, this week’s film is a trailer for the film, Anima D’Acciaio, about Italian frame builder Giovanni Pelizzoli, know to his fans as “Ciocc.” This film will be shown during the sixth program of the festival called Urban Bike Shorts on Saturday, August 8 at 9 PM. [...]

Wes Williams of Willits Bicycles doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to bicycle design. The creator of the modern 29 inch wheel bike and maker of custom titanium and steel bikes let me know early on in our conversation, “I have no tolerance for people who can’t see my vision.” His vision is of [...]

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 [...]

Boston framebuilder Geekhouse has put together this video montages of TIG framebuilding which is fun to watch whether you build or not. Enjoy.

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 [...]

Cyclicio.us has some very sharp photos from the San Diego Custom Bike Show along with a full trip report from the event. There are are some amazing bikes in this set. My favorite is the randoneering bike from Rene Herse that’s right in the middle of the set.

If you happen to be heading up to Seattle in mid-March and are going, or could stop by the Seattle International Bicycle Expo, we could use your help as a guest writer. Elliott and I are too busy with ongoing projects to get up there, but we would still like to get some reports back [...]