Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Program Manager for the City of Austin, was nice enough to answer some interview questions for us. We think she is doing a great job, and wanted to give her an opportunity to talk directly to the cycling community on some issues that are important to all of us. Here’s what [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
Full Wolf Moon Photos now online
One of these days, just one of these days, I’m actually going to stay up past my bedtime and make a Full Moon Cruise. In the meantime, I have to live vicariously through others by checking out Doug’s photo gallery posted online. Enjoy!
Book Review: “A Dog in a Hat” by Joe Parkin
Summary: Released by VeloPress last fall, A Dog in a Hat is a revealing memoir of former American journeyman pro cyclist Joe Parkin. Rating: 4.5/5 Price: $21.95 Availability: Most bookstores or order online from Velopress In a genre dominated by “How I won” autobiographies, A Dog in a Hat is a refreshing behind the scenes look [...]
A new way to prevent your bike from getting stolen
As part of our Getting Started guide, I wrote an article on how to prevent the theft of your bike. While most of the article was about best practices in bike locking, I did mention the perfectly reasonable strategy of riding a cheap beat up bike and not worrying too much about locking. The downside [...]
Let your old bike parts become part of a downtown landmark
This fall, the Downtown Austin Alliance chose three artists to produce sculptures to be installed on Congress Avenue that will also serve as bike racks for the community (Download the really big PDF of all the designs here.) With the possible elimination of thousands of de facto bike racks downtown in the near future, this [...]
Bike Riot with Annie P. this weekend
I just saw this event over at ATXBS which failed to make the weekly calendar of upcoming bike culture events around Austin. Annie P., Ms. May in the must-have Cute Commute Austin calendar, is organizing an afternoon ride, dubbed Bike Riot, to see where the road takes them. Saturday Bike Riot with Annie P. Saturday, January [...]
Dumbest Product of the Week- 18th Edition, Nubrella
It seems that dumb products fall into broad two categories: overpriced entries into an established market and creative attempts to address non-existent problems. The first, whether blindly following current trends, representing yourself as something you are not, or repackaging a mediocre product to cash-in on fame, all receive my highest contempt as modern day huskerism. [...]
It’s Friday – have a beer!
Austin Bike Blog reader Frye sends in a very late, but pretty entertaining, tale of carrying a laaarge object on his bike’s front basket. Here’s what he had to say. This picture was from Thanksgiving day, 2007, when i was still living in Denver. My friends threw a party at one house the night before [...]
Upcoming Austin Bike Culture Events- 1/8- 1/15/08
With AXTBS as our guide, here’s preview of this week’s bike culture events around Austin. 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 8 The 6th Thursday Night Road Ride 7 PM, Cafe Medici, 1101 West Lynn [...]
Olympic track cyclist prefers a utility bike to a track fixie
I was just over checking out Joe Bike, a Portland distributor of inexpensive utility bikes. In addition to Yuba Mundo and Batavus bikes, Joe imports Flying Pigeon bikes from China and upgrades them with decent brakes and cranks. A Flying Pigeon that stops? What a radical idea! Anyway on his information page for the Flying [...]
