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Last held at the Indianapolis show in 2009, this street-art project runs for the month of February in Sacramento and is designed to get the bicycle juices flowing in the community and get the city in the mood for NAHBS.

“It’s great how many talented people and businesses want to get involved with this, it’s going to be a really fun event!” said ArtBike! manager Julia Beckner.

Sponsored by Bicycle Times magazine, the month’s activities involve street art, bike art in galleries and businesses around the Midtown and Downtown, as well as two bike parades with kinetic sculptures, artistic bikes and just regular riders, on February 11th and again on March 3rd.

Festivities reach a peak with a blow-out pre-NAHBS party on Thursday night, March 1st, at Hot Italian, one of Sacramento’s leading pizzerias.

Gone is the long Sunday afternoon ceremony, and in comes the opportunity to discover NAHBS Awards winners as of Saturday afternoon.

The build-up to the Awards now starts early February, when builders announce their entries on the NAHBS website.  Judging will take place on Friday night, all in a corralled area.

The awards will be made on Saturday starting at noon. Most awards will not be made on the stage, but winners will be marked by a plaque that appears by the award-winning bike, which will be returned to the booth after judging.

More than one bike can win an award in each of the categories: up to three bikes can receive an award if the judges consider none to be clearly superior.

Best of Show, People’s Choice, President’s Choice and Rookie of the Year will still be awarded on the main stage, Sunday afternoon.

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NAHBS’s loss is Carl Strong’s gain. Here’s the short version: (full story here) After trying his hand at running a large frame building business in the late ’90s Carl decided he was best suited to the one-man shop model, so gradually he and his wife Loretta rented out their 7,000 foot space and shrank the frame building business.

Their dream became to have a workshop in the garden behind their home. “It would be a place providing us with privacy and simplicity, and it would allow us to build fewer frames so we could ride our bikes and travel more,” said Carl.

Well, a couple of years ago they put the large workshop on the market and very recently it sold, which means they now have to move and have a lot of bikes to build prior to the move. “We just can’t take the two weeks needed to prepare for and attend NAHBS while still meeting our commitments to current customers. We will truly miss the show and seeing all our friends,” said Carl.

NAHBS president, Don Walker, said, “We at NAHBS wish Carl and Loretta well with their move and look forward to having them back at the show in 2013.”