Posts from ‘January, 2009’

I was just over at Bicycle Sport Shop’s site and was very happy to see they are sponsoring a ride with Gary Smith and Joe Ingram of Independent Fabrication next Friday, January 30 at noon starting from the South Lamar store. As an aspiring framebuilder, I’ve really admired Independent Fabrication’s story as an up and coming [...]

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Once again, it’s time for our weekly highlight of up coming bike culture events in Austin with thanks to ATXBS. Got an upcoming cycling or bike culture event you want us to promote? Contact us and we’ll add you to the weekly round up. Thursday, January 22 City of Austin Parks update on the Proposed [...]

So I just got back from the Shifting Gears bike ride sponsored by BikeTexas. It involved a ride around downtown to look at the bike infrastructure that is or will soon be built. About 50 cyclists joined in with everyone from spandexed roadies to plain clothed hybrid riders. I had a chance to talk briefly [...]

“Building more roads to fix traffic is like throwing gas on fire.” “Parking is not a constitutional right.” “If an 8 year old can’t safely use a bikeway, then it is not a good bikeway.” Today, BikeTexas (formerly Texas Bicycle Coalition) hosted a lunch time lecture by Dr. Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Columbia with [...]

In interesting e-mail from Austin cyclist Tom Wald is circulating about the Austin Police Department and their much reported crackdown on cyclists who break traffic laws. Tom wrote the police department a letter criticizing the program for singling out cyclists when motorists cause the vast majority of accidents that involve injury and deaths. Regardless of [...]

For those who missed last night’s super hero themed Midnight Ridazz pub crawl, Doug now has a galley of pictures from the ride up including a mysterious bandaged man who may or may not be a certain Jason of ATXBS. (His secret identity is safe with us.)

Shifting Gears with Enrique Peñalosa sponsored by Bike Texas Wednesday, January 21 11:30 AM, Luncheon, Sumners Hall, St. David’s Episcopal Church, 304 E. 7th Street 3:00 PM, Bike Ride, BikeTexas offices, 1904 E. 6th Street Texas Bicycle Coalition, aka BikeTexas, is sponsoring a luncheon called Shifting Gears with guest speaker Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá. Peñalosa is most famous in the [...]

It appears that bears are not nature’s only godless killing machines. Now we can add cows to the list. The Denver Post is reporting a Boulder woman was knocked down and her leg stepped on by a cow when she stopped to allow the cow to cross a road. The article quotes Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance [...]

Now that cyclocross season is over, it’s time to relieve your race jones. The Tour Down Under starts today, and it marks the first pro race return of Lance Armstrong in his comeback season. Lance’s bike shop, Mellow Johnny’s, is celebrating his return with viewing parties all this week. They’ll be showing the coverage on a [...]