Princeton Tec, makers of really, really bright bike lights, is having a contest for the best/coolest/most amazing photo of “bikes with lights.” If you think you have the photography skills and you’re on Flickr, follow the instructions on their Flickr group page and submit some! They’re giving away an SE Lager singlespeed, bags from Crumpler, [...]
Posts on ‘March 4th, 2009’
Yellow Bike Project Fundraiser next Saturday!
The Austin Yellow Bike Project, which is inching ever closer to having a new location out on Webberville road, is putting on a fundraiser next Saturday, March 14. This is one looooooooooooooooooooong party, from 1pm ’til midnight. It’s at The Compound, 1300 E. 4th Street. Go, have fun, and give ‘em some cash because they [...]
Action Alert: Austin City Council to vote on Lady Bird Lake Trail Extension This Thursday
Please let the City Council know you support this cycling infrastructure Lady Bird Lake is a jewel in Austin’s crown, and the parks and hike and bike trail surrounding the lake is a public resource for everyone in our community. Unfortunately, the vision of the park has remained incomplete in a 1 mile section where [...]
Bring B-Cycle Velib-style Bike Sharing to Austin?
Marsha Ungchusri sent the following submission in to us. B-Cycle is a Bike Sharing concept nearly identical in function to Velib in France. It’s a corporate collaboration between health firm Humana, Trek Bicycles, and ad firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky. The site looks promising, but it isn’t backed up with quite enough information to make [...]
Austin On Two Wheels on KOOP radio today
Marcus and I are leaving the electronic world for the airways today with a guest appearance today at noon on the ANC Radio show on KOOP, 91.7 FM. The theme of the show is “What’s Austin’s Two Wheel Plan”, and we’ll be joined by City of Austin Bicycle Program Manager Annick Beaudet and Urban Transportation [...]
