Matt Wellsted sent me this little teaser of the special TBA crowd funding illustration he’s been working on for us. A single-colour version will be screen printed on all the TBA T shirts, and a full colour version will used to create the ltd edition prints that are also available as rewards on peoplefund.it. I [...]
#VendrediVelo – Props Fabrication
This week I’ve found a video about Pops Fabrication popsfabrication.com (formerly Shorty Fatz). Owner Matthew Rodriguez gives some insight into his frame building, bike designing, and fabrication business located in San Jose, California. The bikes are really cool, and clearly pretty unique but the keen eyed amongst you will notice that they choose to file down their fillet brazing, [...]
Frome Fling – Saturday 19th November
For the second year running Marjory Hatvany has organised the Frome Fling Ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee) as a fund raiser for the Black Canon Collective mountain bike club and the charity Re~cycle. Tickets are still available for this brilliant event so please come along and support it, there’ll be great food, fantastic live music, lots to drink and [...]
Inverse crowd sourcing
Quite flatteringly I’ve recently been asked to give various talks about The Bicycle Academy and now Crowd Sourcing too. Speaking in front of large groups of people is really intimidating, it’s something that few manage without shaking or loosing the ability salivate. I’m one of those people – I become a dry mouthed quivering mess. The first talk is the Annual [...]
Learning to ride…
During our first meeting I managed to convince Brian that the best way for us to kick things off was for him to teach me how to braze. Brian kindly agreed, so we started weekly brazing sessions at Brian’s workshop every Saturday morning. Eager to learn, and hopeful that things would work out, I looked forward [...]
Bicycle Portraits – a photographic book
This is a great project…I’ve just ordered all three books which I’ll donate to the Bicycle Academy library when they arrive. Have a look at their funding page and for all you budding crowd funding dragons why not make a pledge too…
We Made This
Exactly five and a half days after we began our crowd funding campaign we crossed the magic £40,000 line at 19:00 yesterday . I’m obviously very proud of what we’ve accomplished but most of all I’m thankful for all the support we’ve received. Things like this don’t happen due to the work of just one [...]
