Posts Tagged ‘KirkLee’

I got a call from my fellow frame builder Brad Cason at KirkLee this morning with some bad news. Someone broke in and has made off with six of his bikes. A couple of them were from his booth at NAHBS this year and one was featured in Bicycling Magazine. Please read below and keep [...]

This weekend, hundreds of custom bicycle framebuilders and bicycle companies from all over the US will descend on Austin for the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. I’ll be exhibiting there myself with Violet Crown Cycles. Here’s a quick guide the show, some of the parties going on, and info on some of the local Austin [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]