Texas Handbuilt Bike Show

Went by the Convention Center with Annie on Friday. Total Weinerville. The bikes were all pushed over to one wall and the entire rest of the hall was filled with vitamin drink tents and investment banking agents. There was a jackass emcee jabbering on about how nothing was taboo at a Livestrong event, interviewing people who's uncle had cancer and then saying how great it was that something so tragic could bring us all together to fight it.

Don't get me wrong, I have more than a few family or friends that have survived or succumbed to cancer, and I think that Livestrong and Lance Armstrong are doing an incredible service to mankind, but I was there to look at bikes. And drink beer.

Well, there was no beer (10 points from Gryffindor!), but there were bikes aplenty.

Bilenky. Favorite Cargo Bike Ever.

Jeremy from Gallus brought these two bikes from his personal collection. A 49cm track bike and a bi-partable 650-b fixed gear commuter. We talked a bunch about building racks and the generator hub he has on the commuter. He said "If someone orders a performance bike from me, they will be dissapointed."

I dug his aesthetic and his 'build it to ride it' mentality that he said all of his work comes out of.

Alchemy fixed gear. Like the paint jobs but Ti builders freak me out.

Wierd/cool blue sparkle with hand painted details on this Daltex.

Faux patina all over this True Fabrication. Kind of wierd,airbrushed spots all over the frame to look like rust, but the ties on this 29r's downtube logo look rad.

Motherfucking Ti Jafar staff at the Willits booth!