Posts Tagged ‘True Fabrication’

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 [...]

The weekend of October 16-17, 2010, framebuilders from all over Texas and beyond descended on Austin for the third annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show. In addition to all the great show bikes and cyclocross racing, I hosted two framebuilder round table discussions on Day 1 of the show. The idea was to expand on the [...]

After five weeks of cancellations due to poor course conditions, the Dirt Derby is finally making its comeback tonight with cyclocross and mountain short course racing. It will be Ladies Night meaning women race free. Fellas wanting to honor our beloved, fallen Leslie can get in on the action as well but halfhearted attempts won’t [...]

UPDATE: Due to track conditions, the Dirt Derby is canceled this week. Ladies Night will be rescheduled for next Tuesday. Although the Dirt Derby has had a decent women’s showing the last couple weeks, the weekly Tuesday cyclocross and mountain bike short track series wants more participation from the fairer sex. Tonight’s edition will be [...]

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 [...]

VCC will give away a custom cyclocross frameset to a lucky Dirt Derby participant in December Last night was the season opener of the Dirt Derby, the Tuesday night cyclocross and mountain bike short track course racing that runs through December 15 at the Austin/Del Valle Motorcross Park (ADVMX). I did not suit up but [...]

This Saturday was the 47th incarnation of Frankenbike, Austin’s monthly bicycle and bike parts swap. I’m building a randonneuring bike for Marcus and a road bike for myself, so Marcus and I headed up to Hammerhead Bikes, this month’s host, to look for some low cost, lightly used components before we buy new. Not only [...]

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 a continuation in a series of articles we are doing to profile Texas handbuilt framebuilders. A few weeks ago I stopped by the north Austin workshop of framebuilders Cody Baron, Clark Davidson, and Cole Thompson, the team behind True Fabrication, one of Austin’s great local bike brands. I spoke with them about [...]