{"id":1740,"date":"2009-01-29T19:54:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T01:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2009-01-29T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T01:54:43","slug":"austin-bike-blog-profiles-brad-cason-of-kirklee-bicycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/austin-bike-blog-profiles-brad-cason-of-kirklee-bicycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Bike Blog Profiles Brad Cason of KirkLee Bicycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s note: This article is the first in a series of articles we are doing to profile Texas handbuilt framebuilders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Life is good right now at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkleebicycles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KirkLee<\/a>. In just over 12 months, framebuilder Brad Cason has taken a \u00c2\u00a0framebuilding business that was just an idea and generated a tremendous amount of buzz as an up and coming custom carbon brand to watch. KirkLee has been reviewed in the Nov\/Dec 08 issue of Road, <a href=\"http:\/\/uscyclingreport.com\/content\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=921&amp;Itemid=1\" target=\"_blank\">drew\u00c2\u00a0some notice at Interbike<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/velonews.com\/article\/86337\/technical-qa-with-lennard-zinn---the-tall-man-s-dilemma\" target=\"_blank\">was recommended by Velonews Tech writer (and framebuilder) Leonard Zinn<\/a>, and is being found under the body of U.S. Road Champion Tyler Hamilton as his bike of choice when sponsors don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t force him to ride another bike.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/austinbikeblog.org\" href=\"http:\/\/austinbikeblog.org\/2009\/01\/28\/framebuilder-profile-brad-cason-of-kirklee-bicycles\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Link to the full profile at Austin Bike Blog<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s note: This article is the first in a series of articles we are doing to profile Texas handbuilt framebuilders. Life is good right now at KirkLee. In just over 12 months, framebuilder Brad Cason has taken a \u00c2\u00a0framebuilding business <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/austin-bike-blog-profiles-brad-cason-of-kirklee-bicycles\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[640,641],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-hand-built-frames","tag-kirklee-bicycles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-s4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}