Thick Bikes Blog

This is the first part of the hitch mechanism for another Brett Marshall project - The Bike Train.

I have been making some very limited run T-shirts and this is one of the designs that I put on them. I silk screened white ink on this slate blue shirt and also on a rusty orange color shirt. The idea of Sofa King came from a certain episode of ATHF which I found to be very funny. You may click on the thumbnail to view a larger image.

The infamous Art Bike garnered some serious attention when it was rolled out in Las Vegas at the Interbike trade show. I couldn’t go ten feet without someone stopping me to as a question or take a picture of it. Here are some links to photos and mentions that I found on the web. If there are any I missed please let me know. Thanks

Bike Radar
Koobi
MTBR
bluecollarmtb
DirtragTV interview
Dirtrag Gallery
Check out more of the Art Bike at Velospace.org. You can even be the Art Bike’s friend!

Setting up the whole blog template and whatnot is taking some time. I’m trying to get the blog site to resemble the old regular HTML site as much as I can. As soo as I get it to the point where either I’m happy with the layout or I can’t figure out how to make any more changes I’m going to enlist the help of my friend Colin who will take over and make this look really slick and professional.

It has been a long time since I had time to update the thickbikes.com website properly yet I add updates at least twice a week to the DORC site. Why is that? The answer is simply that the DORC site uses WordPress (blog software) while the thick bikes site uses (until now) HTML code which I wrote painstakingly. The HTML code took a long time to write and as a result less pages were written and less information got out to you. Now everything will be different…