Posts from ‘January, 2009’

For those of our readers who are fixed gear fanatics or are interested in Austin’s fixed gear scene, we’d like to give a quick shout out to Austin fixed blog, ATXFixed. There’s great videos, pictures, and articles about all things fixed in Austin, Texas, and occasionally nationally.  This short movie by Austinite Arak Avakian is [...]

Today, I joined Gary Smith and Joe Ingram from custom bicycle framebuilder Independent Fabrication for a Tour of Austin ride sponsored by Bicycle Sport Shop. This ride was part of a roll out of Independent Fabrication as an offering at BSS which now joins Freewheeling as part of the IF dealer network. Gary Smith is [...]

Carbon seems to do something to bicycle manufacturers’ brains. I don’t know if its off gassing or fiber weave induced hypnosis, but there is something about carbon that makes builders of perfectly good bikes and components do wacky things in the name of this aerospace material. Not that carbon does not have perfectly reasonable applications, [...]

This didn’t make it in time for the weekly calendar of Austin Bike Culture Events, but that’s OK ’cause it deserves its own post. I just saw over at ATXBS that the guys who’ve been putting together occational bike polo matches have gone legit (well, as legit as bike polo gets) and formed an Austin [...]

Who says Austin doesn’t have a vibrant bike culture? There are 50, count ‘em 50 events on our comprehensive calendar of Austin cycling events this week. That means there is on average a cycling related event every 3 1/2 hours in Austin. And it’s not even spring yet! We can’t list them all here, so [...]

The League of Bicycle Voters is working to improve bicycle infrastructure in Austin and to that end have come up with a campaign called Project Catapult with the goal of seeing five significant bicycle projects/programs put in the works in five months. If you’d like to help, please join them for a Project Catapult meeting [...]

Editor’s 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  framebuilding business that was just an idea and generated a tremendous amount of buzz as an up [...]

What I’ve seen in the past week that I wanted to share with Austin Bike Blog readers: Brain Pickings, a side which focuses on “brilliant ideas” has an interesting post about bike culture innovations. A couple of the ideas are pretty good. Unfortunately, two of them are also on our Dumbest Product of the Week [...]

Last night at the Urban Transportation Commission Bike and Pedestrian Subcommittee meeting, one very important point came up that needs feedback from Austin cyclists involving the Downtown Austin Plan. Currently, Trinity street is proposed as the east downtown bicycle priority street for north-south travel. Several cyclists spoke last night, though, and proposed that Red River [...]

And we get the feeling you guys like to ride your bikes Thanks to everyone who participated in the Austin Bike Blog Reader’s Survey. Congratulations are also in order to Les Bennett who won a $25 gift certificate to Bicycle Sport Shop by having his name drawn randomly from all the survey participants who left their name and [...]