Posts on ‘February 5th, 2009’

One year ago today, the world cycling community lost a great resource in the passing of Sheldon Brown. For anyone who’s every searched the internet for answers to bike repair and maintenance questions, you’ve probably already visited is Bike Encyclopedia to get help. If you’ve never been there and you ever rode or ever will ride a [...]

So after all the hubbup over Austin’s most notorious bike thief, I see that Velonews is reporting Team Barloworld had 21 bikes stolen overnight at their training camp in Tuscany. A press release from the team says the bikes were taken from the training camp storage shed. Most of the team is S.O.L for training and racing [...]

This morning Detective Scott Askew with the Austin Police Department held a press conference regarding the arrest and property raid of James Clayton, an Austin cyclist allegedly linked to dozens of high end bike thefts in the last year. “On Tuesday, February 3, the Austin Police Department acted on a search warrant for the residence and storage [...]

Bicycle Sport Shop is the behemoth of Austin bike shops. Whatever you want, they probably have it tucked away in a corner of their massive, warehouse-like central shop at south Lamar and Barton Springs. Last month, I interviewed Leslie Luciano, Community Relations Manager, about the shop and got some quite interesting facts and tidbits about [...]

So after last week’s highlight of over 50 cycling related and bike culture events, this week we are coming roaring back with 63 events on our calendar. In addition to the events we’re promoting below, we also added the regular rides of the Sun City Cyclists. They do a group ride every day at 9 [...]