NAHBS 2011 – Austin Day 2

Day two at the North American Handmade Bike Show (NAHBS) brought in a really good crowd. The show was bustling all day with excitement. Stu and I dragged ourselves out of bed after a late night out with our friend Wade, the Vulture of Vulture Cycles who we met up with at the party at Mellow Johnnies, and then headed over to see the lewd and crude and all-around entertaining Mojo Nixon.

We powered through motivated by the enthusiasm for cycling in the air. And after a few technical difficulties on the video end, captured a whole lot of great video that we should be offering up over the next few days–including an over-the-top interlude with Gary Fisher.

With some of our interviews focused on the discussion of integrated accessories, I began to realize that custom builders are in a unique position to critique. As I mentioned yesterday, the intimate relationship between bike builders and customers results in a requirement for a very high level of reliability.

 
Customers are not only trusting the builder to fit the bike frame to their function, they are often relying on the builder to bring together all aspects of the bicycle, frame, parts and bicycle accessories together into a seamless and long-lasting solution that fits their needs and unleashes their cycling potential.