If you’ve been on any of the Thursday Urban Night Rides, you’ll have seen Brad Beneski. Well, you may not have seen Beneski., but you certainly will have seen his flashing back, lit up like a helicopter landing pad. The lighting system that he is sporting, called the FlashBak, was developed by Beneski in the [...]
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Chronic Cycling Wear – Locally Grown Technical T’s and Jerseys
Nando Caban-Mendez is just an ordinary cyclist, with an ordinary day job as an environmental designer. “I’m not a racer,” he said. “I just love to ride bikes.” And he has designed cycling jerseys and technical t-shirts that fit that same love for bikes. He started Chronic Cycling about a year ago, and has collected [...]
My ride with Independent Fabrication
Today, I joined Gary Smith and Joe Ingram from custom bicycle framebuilder Independent Fabrication for a Tour of Austin ride sponsored by Bicycle Sport Shop. This ride was part of a roll out of Independent Fabrication as an offering at BSS which now joins Freewheeling as part of the IF dealer network.
Gary Smith is former [...]
Framebuilder Profile: Brad Cason of KirkLee Bicycles
Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series of articles we are doing to profile Texas handbuilt framebuilders.
Life is good right now at KirkLee. In just over 12 months, framebuilder Brad Cason has taken a framebuilding business that was just an idea and generated a tremendous amount of buzz as an up and [...]










