The Texas Custom Bicycle Show is coming up this weekend, and Glenn Thompson, the show organizer, let me know they still need some volunteer help with the show, especially for Sunday during the cyclocross race. If you are available and want to help with this great show of locally produced bikes and accessories, please contact [...]
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Texas Custom Bicycle Show Poster!
In a followup to yesterday’s post about the bike I’m building for the Texas Custom Bicycle Show, here’s a cool poster the show came up with. Feel free to download and distribute the printable version and let others know about this locally make goodness.
T-minus 10 days until the Texas Custom Bicycle Show
The Texas Custom Bicycle Show is just 10 days away, and I’ve been liternally burning the midnight oil to get the show bike down for my Violet Crown Cycles booth. For the show, I decided on building a travel randonneur bike with some special features. As the bike is designed to breakdown into a regular [...]
Friday Film Fun: Pure Sweet Hell
Earlier this week, I mentioned cyclocross season will be starting up again on September 7 with the weekly Dirt Derby series. Look for some cyclecross fun at the Texas Custom Bicycle Show as well, and hopefully some enterprising chaps will start up the underground alleycross races again. We’re no Portland, but cyclocross is on the [...]
Texas Custom Bicycle Show looking for volunteers
Yesterday, I posted about the Texas Custom Bicycle Show coming to Austin October 16-17. The show is a lot of fun and a chance to see some well made, unique bikes built right here in Texas. The show is free and the product of a lot of hard work by the builders. To that end, [...]
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 [...]
Ten biggest stories of 2009 in Austin cycling
2009 was a momentous year for cycling in Austin with several mile stones passed and the volume of people moving on two wheels growing. Here is a quick run down of what I think are the top ten Austin bike related stories in order of importance. If 2010 is anything like this year, Austin’s cycling [...]
Wrap up of Texas Custom Bicycle Show
The second annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show wrapped up on Sunday in Dripping Springs at the finish line of the LiveStrong Challenge. The show saw a large number of attendees in addition to the LiveStrong participants with folks coming in from Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Conroe, and Fredericksburg just to see custom bicycles made by [...]
Texas Custom Bicycle Show Photos Up Now
I took around 150 shots at the Texas Custom Bicycle Show today and have a slideshow to share here from Flickr. Enjoy, and look for more over the weekend! The show goes on all weekend, so come out to see some beautiful bikes and support these great Texas framebuilders!
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 10/22- 10/28/09
The Texas Custom Bicycle Show rolls into town this weekend with the LivesStrong Challenge Ride. There’s plenty more to do though including an extra spooky Thursday Night Social Ride, the season finale of the Driveway Crits Series, Día de Los Muertos ride, and Webberville Cyclocross race. Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for [...]
