Today is the final day of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show at the Austin Convention Center with bicycles on display from framebuilder from all over the US. On Day 1, I was only able to cover 1/2 the floor (yes, the show is that big and that awesome.) Here are shots from the other [...]
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Photos From 2011 NAHBS- Day 1
The North American Handmade Bicycle Show continues today at the Austin Convention Center with framebuilder from all over the US in Austin. Here are some shots I took from Day 1 including my favorite bike so far, a beautiful randonneur bike with wicked cool integrated lighting built by Herbie Helm. I’ve also included some pictures [...]
Photos from 2011 NAHBS- Pre-Show Parties
The North American Handmade Bicycle Show begins today at the Austin Convention Center with framebuilder from all over the US descending on Austin with all manner of two wheeled creations. While I’ll be exhibiting, I’ll also be shooting pictures and sharing each day. Here is a gallery of shots from the yesterday’s pre-show parties including [...]
A Series of Tubes: Latest pictures from Violet Crown Cycles
The North American Handmade Bicycle Show starts tomorrow, and the Austin American Statesman did a nice write up on some of the local Austin builders including my friends at KirkLee, True Fabrication, and Alchemy Bicycle Company. They also wrote a bit about my framebuilding company, Violet Crown Cycles. I specialize in building custom city bikes [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 2/24- 3/2/11
So we’ve been cruising along nice and quiet through the winter until ***BOOM** this weekend hits with an absolutely insane number of cycling events going on. First there is this little get together called NAHBS, then comes a bike-in movie premier, forum on getting cycling more diverse, 2 road races (turns out they are next [...]
A Guide to the 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show
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 [...]
Top 5 Austin Bike Stories of 2010
As the year comes to an end, Austin on Two Wheels takes a look at the stories that defined 2010 for cycling in Austin. While this year was not as eventful as 2009, much still happened to change the face of cycling in our town, some for good and some not. 5. Social cycling steps [...]
Austin framebuilder James Flatman makes 2011 NAHBS poster
The North American Handmade Bicycle Show is coming to Austin in February, and this week they released their promotional poster for the event. I was happy to see my friend and fellow framebuilder James Flatman of Alchemy Bicycle Company is the featured builder on the poster. Congrats to James on the much deserved recognition! To [...]
2010 Texas Custom Bicycle Show coming to Austin, Oct 16-17
UPDATE: The show is also looking for volunteers if you want to help with this show that is free to the public. Also in addition to the website, the show has a blog which will include profiles of the builders and you can follow the show on Facebook and Twitter. ———— Mark your calendar! Now [...]
Friday Film Fun: Shots from the 2010 NAHBS
In case you haven’t been following the site in the last week, the 2010 North American Handmade Bicycle Show was held last weekend in Richmond, VA and ended with the exciting announcement that the show is coming to Austin in 2011. This will be our chance to see some of the finest crafted bicycles made [...]
