There is a lot to like about this weekend for the person on two wheels. Critical Mass is Friday (with an after party celebrating ATXBS’ 2nd birthday), the return of Austin Bike Zoo’s Alice in Wonderland on bikes on Saturday, and Talking Heads’ lead man David Byrne’s panel discussion on cycling in the city on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Violet Crown Cycles’
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 9/17- 9/23/09
Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll [...]
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 [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 9/10- 9/16/09
Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll [...]
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. ___ I’ve been working with Glenn Thompson, the owner of Daltex and founder of [...]
A Series of Tubes: Marcus’ Randonneur Bike, Details, Details, Details
“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles To followup on my initial post in this series on frame building, I wanted to share some of the work and challenges that went into designing a randonneuring bike for Marcus, my co-editor. The frame [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 9/3- 9/9/09
If you are ready to suit up, there is a whole lot of racing going on this week. In addition to the old standby Driveway Crits, the twice monthly RunFar Time Trial, and the return of the Dirt Derby, the Tour of Austin cranks up with some serious road racing all holiday weekend. Here’s a [...]
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 [...]
A Series of Tubes: The latest Ma Ferguson step through city bike
“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles On Friday, I dropped off my latest custom city bike to the customer. She choose the Ma Ferguson, the step through “woman’s” style to replace a her recumbent. She had gotten the recumbent for comfort [...]
A Series of Tubes: Articles on the Art and Science of Framebuilding
“They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, [...]
