Welcome to Violet Crown Cycles, maker of handbuilt city bikes from Deep in the Heart of Texas. We offer fully custom, steel lugged transportation bicycles from our shop in Austin, Texas. You can choose from a variety of colors, components and accessories to have a bike tailored to your body and personal style.
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Read about our recently completed White Ferguson Step Through, French Style Randonneur Light Touring Bike, and Xtracycle with Stokemonkey pedal assist.
Why city bikes? Well, much has been written lately about how stylish Dutch style city bikes are. We agree that they have a wonderful classic look, but what makes them really great is how practical they are as well. You can go shopping, commute to work and do all the things in your everyday life by bike and look good. No need for spandex or jumble colored performance bikes here, just an elegant combination of fashion and function.
Why custom? The Violet Crown Cycles Ferguson line takes all those great features of Dutch style city bikes to the next level with fully customized, hand built frames made in the U.S.A. Your bike is built to your body dimensions and weight. This is especially important if your height or weight are outside of average where stock bikes are too big or too small or handle poorly for you. We hand build with higher quality steel than most production Dutch bikes yielding a bike that is lighter and more sprightly with more attention to aesthetic detail. We also allow you to further customize your bike with higher quality components, a wide selection of colors, color matched parts so your bike can reflect your personality.
Part of our philosophy at VCC is to provide you with a fun, practical bike that you'll look forward to riding as an alternative to a car. We are committed to market driven ways to help the environment and improve our community. As part of the VCC car-free or car-lite package, we offer a joint promotion with Austin CarShare for our Austin customers. When you order a VCC bike, we'll give you a referral code worth $25 in driving credit with Austin CarShare so you have a car on-demand when you need it.
So take a look around, find the right bike for you, and feel free to ask us any questions you don't find on our Frequently Asked Questions page. Let's get started on building you a great, quality custom bike today.
