Demo & Rental Bike Sale SAVE 25% – 50% OFF! This spring, Austin on Two Wheels brought you a series of extraordinary social rides in and around downtown Austin. We made Gazelle Dutch bikes available to ride participants as rental bikes as well as holding a series of bicycle demo days. Now that the series [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Violet Crown Cycles’
A Guide to the 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show
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 [...]
Series of Tubes: Show Rando Bike with Belt Drive & S&S couplers
“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles If you are a regular reader of this site or attended the Texas Custom Bicycle Show in October, you know I built a new bike for the show, a travel version of my La Salle [...]
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: A.N.T. Bicycles The Movie
In addition to my framebuilding business, Violet Crown Cycles, there are only a handful of U.S. custom builders focusing on bicycles truly designed to replace cars as a valid transportation option. Mike Flanigan, formerly of Independent Fabrication, is one of those builders making great roadster style bikes under the name Alternative Needs Transportation or A.N.T. [...]
A Series of Tubes: Ferguson City Bike with Carbon Belt Drive
“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden,Violet Crown Cycles This fall, I was contacted by a customer wanting a Ferguson city bike as a possible replacement to his car. He lives and works downtown and was ready to give car free living a try. The [...]
Dirt Derby is on for tonight
The gorgeous fall weather has proved favorable to racing conditions, and the weekly cyclocross and short course mountain bike series, the Dirt Derby returns tonight. Come out to the Hammerhead Bicycles Dirt Derby, Nov. 3rd, for the Light & Motion demo and get 10% off any lights purchased at that time! Hammerhead Bicycles and Light [...]
Dirt Derby is finally back on track, Ladies Night tonight
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 [...]
A Series of Tubes: Xtracycle Long Tail with Stokemonkey Pedal Assist
“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden,Violet Crown Cycles In April during one of my first ventures to the Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market with the Violet Crown Cycles tent, I met an individual who loved the look and functionality of my Ferguson city bikes but [...]
A Series of Tubes: Final buildup on Marcus Rando Light Touring Bike
“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden,Violet Crown Cycles Earlier this month, I wrote about the randonneur bicycle, a French style light touring bike, I designed and built for Marcus. It came back from powder coating a few weeks ago, and I built it up [...]
