Posts from ‘February, 2009’

I came across this video via Bike Hugger of the owner of Arudnel Bicycle Company out of Ft. Worth motorpacing with a derny, The production quality of this short is high and nicely captures the obsession of the amateur racer. Plus its set to a great deep fried rock tune from Phil Lynott. Enjoy!

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 [...]

Austin’s fastest growing cycling site broadens to cover all aspects of Austin Bike Culture You may notice some changes here at Austin Bike Blog, changes like we’re no longer called Austin Bike Blog. From this point forward, this site will have the new name Austin on Two Wheels to better reflect our new scope of promoting [...]

Help YBP reach their goal and build a permanent headquarters at East 12th and Webberville The Austin Yellow Bike Project is a community supported ALL-VOLUNTEER 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing human-powered transportation for the people of Austin, running a community bike shop, and educating kids and adults. In addition to leaving bikes to be shared [...]

James Clayton’s home raided by police for stolen bike parts Jason at ATXBS has broken a story about the police raid and arrest of James Clayton, a local Austin cyclists that has been accused of rampant bike theft. The Travis County Sheriff’s Booking Records indicate that Clayton is being charged with 2nd Degree felony for [...]

- and stop a $50 billion giveaway to the road lobby This is not directly related to cycling, but transit is a key component in making biking for transportation work. I just received an action alert from Transportation for America stating that two Republican senators, Kit Bond of Missouri and Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, have [...]