Pallas Athena Custom Cycles Newsletter

June 8, 2011

Contest Winner

In May, I ran a contest, giving away a free custom rear rack to people who signed up for our mailing list. The prize was won by Sam Hulin of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the bike pictured below is the one that the rack will be going on. For more about the contest and what I learned, click here.

Second Chance at a Free Rack

If you were already on the mailing list before the contest started, or you were disappointed not to win a free custom rack, well, here's your second chance. Every time you share this newsletter on Twitter, like it on Facebook, or forward it to a friend, that counts as an entry in the second-chance sweepstakes, with the winner to be announced in the next newsletter! Read More.

Blood, Skin, and Sweat

I do give a lot of myself -- if it's not bleeding on a frame, it's leaving chunks of skin behind when I burn myself. An artist should leave some of himself in everything he does, right? Read more.

Personal Projects

You'd think that as a framebuilder, I'd have a pretty awesome fleet of custom steel frames that I'd be hammering around on. For more on my personal fleet, please read onward.

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Minor Things

New Website

So after dwelling on the current site for awhile and never being 100% happy with it, I've started developing the materials to create a new one. Don't worry — I actually used to do it for a living, so it won't be all Geocities and shit.

Moving Shop

Nothing is set in stone yet, but it looks like my workshop will be moving again. My wife and I are planning on buying a house, moving out of the city and into the burbs. I don't have any deep information yet, but in the future, I'll show off the new workshop, once it's set up.

Minnecycle 2011

I'll be showing my bikes at Minnecycle this year. If you're in the Minneapolis area, you should come out — there's an influx of new builders this year. Besides me, Three Stars and A-Train will both be there.