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 [...]
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Framebuilder happy hour tonight & two more builders confirmed for the Texas Custom Bicycle Show
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 [...]
Texas Custom Bicycle Show coming in October
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. ___ I’ve been working with Glenn Thompson, the owner of Daltex and founder of [...]
Texas Custom Bicycle Show coming to Austin this fall
Word is just in from Glenn Thompson at Daltex confirming that the Texas Custom Bicycle Show will be in Austin Ocotber 23-25 in conjunction with the Livestrong Challenge festivities. The Custom Bicycle show will be a “show within a show” at the Livingstrong Village, the event expo. Here’s the list of confirmed builders so far [...]
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 [...]
