Thanks to everyone who played our Austin Bike Culture Quiz and Bikes Rock concert ticket giveaway. Congrats to Rob D’Amico, Terry O’Halloran, Jessica Sajak, and Andrew Wade who answered our quiz questions correctly and were drawn to received two free passes to the concert tonight. Thanks to the BFF staff for providing the free passes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Texas Custom Framebuilder’s Show’
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 [...]
1/2 of Austin Bike Blog heading to bike building heaven for 2 weeks
Starting this Sunday, I will be taking a two week class in steel frame bicycle building with master framebuilder Doug Fattic in Niles, Michigan. As part of a crazy idea Marcus and I have been throwing around for a while, I’m going to see if I have the vocation for bike building that I hope [...]
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 [...]
