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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
