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 [...]
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Ladies race free at the Dirt Derby tonight
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 a [...]
Texas Custom Bicycle Show coming in October
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.
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I’ve been working with Glenn Thompson, the owner of Daltex and founder of the Texas [...]
Pictures from Dirt Derby opener, A2W & Violet Crown Cycles come on board as sponsor
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 instead [...]
Photos from Frankenbike #47
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 [...]
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 for [...]
Texas Framebuilders Section Added to Sidelinks
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 of [...]
Framebuilder Profile: Cody Baron, Clark Davidson, and Cole Thompson of True Fabrication
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 founding [...]
Hammerhead Bicycles moves to new location in North Central Austin
Last night, I was doing an interview with the guys at True Fabrication for an upcoming framebuilders profile, and Cody Baron, a True Faber but also local bike shop owner, mentioned his shop Hammerhead Bicycles has moved from way far north Austin to north central.
Hammerhead is now at 6706 Burnet Lane. Please note this is NOT [...]
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 day [...]
