Posts under ‘Bicycle Frame Builders’

In case you haven’t been following the site in the last week, the 2010 North American Handmade Bicycle Show was held last weekend in Richmond, VA and ended with the exciting announcement that the show is coming to Austin in 2011. This will be our chance to see some of the finest crafted bicycles made [...]

Yesterday, I posted a photo gallery from this weekend’s North American Handmade Bicycle Show. Here are more photos taken by my classmate from Doug Fattic’s framebuilding class who was able to make it to this year’s show. There are some really great bikes here and get’s me even more excited about the show coming here [...]

As we mentioned yesterday, the North American Handmade Bicycle Show is coming to Austin next February. This is exciting news and a chance for all you bike geeks to see some of the world’s best crafted bikes up close and person.
Our city also got honors at this year’s show with Austin’s own Nick Crumpton picking [...]

I just received word that the North American Handmade Bicycle Show will be held in Austin in 2011. With the growth of local framebuilding and the success of the Texas Custom Bike Show, Austin has been in the running in years past, but this is great news and a sign we are growing as one [...]

The North American Handmade Bicycle Show is this weekend in Richmond, VA, and while I’m a framebuilder, events in my life have conspired to prevent me from attending this year. Since A2W will not have direct coverage there, here are some recently made films from various great North American framebuilders to get you thinking about [...]

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. [...]

Economic woes be damned, business is good at Alchemy Bicycle Company these days. Framebuilder James Flatman is weathering the storm fine with a traditional build-anything-you-want full custom approach that has yielded a surprisingly steady customer cue for one of Austin’s newest hand built bicycle companies. Still, Flatman is anything but new to the industry offering [...]

“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 problem [...]

The second annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show wrapped up on Sunday in Dripping Springs at the finish line of the LiveStrong Challenge. The show saw a large number of attendees in addition to the LiveStrong participants with folks coming in from Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Conroe, and Fredericksburg just to see custom bicycles made by [...]

This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the finest custom bicycle builders from all over the Lone Star state (plus one honorary Texan from Philadelphia) will converge on Austin for the second annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show. The show is free and open to the public and will be a part of the Expo at the LiveStrong [...]