Posts on ‘February 27th, 2009’

I was just leaving work when I saw link over at ATXBS to a Craig’s List posting about a non-profit bike sale on this Saturday morning. Here’s the scoop from Craig’s list:  Bike Sale this Saturday, 9am The Austin Arts and Music Partnership. 411 West Monroe at South First Street. 9am until we run out [...]

The fashion industry has inspired us to pen more than one Dumbest Product of the Week. When fashion and cycling converge as they often do with clothing maker Rapha, we have pay dirt. Some of you may recall Rapha’s $750 Tweed Softshell as our 16th edition Dumbest Product winner. This softshell may be OK for [...]

Next Saturday, March 7 is the deadline to submit a film for the 2009 Bicycle Film Festival. Entries should be submitted in a DVD or miniDV format, and while they’ll accept films of any length, those “shorter than 10 minutes are easier to program.” Basically, a long film has to be really good to be part of the [...]

Austin cyclists are engaged and excited about what’s coming. That was the message city staff heard loud and clear last night at the bicycle plan open house held at Mellow Johnny’s. Political campaigns and local organizers are also paying attention to the increased excitement. Representatives from the Chris Riley Austin City Council campaign were there, [...]

Last night, my wife introduced me to the site FAIL blog where sometimes funny, sometime pitiful photographic and video examples of failure are shared. While there, I came across this video of not so cool BMXers. Enjoy.