Posts from ‘March, 2009’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just received this email from the city, there’s a survey due by tomorrow (Wednesday) about what kind of amenities and transportation facilities should be at Auditorium Shores when it’s rehabilitated. Cyclists: If you ride your bike any where near area bordered by Barton Springs/Lamar/Riverside/South First Street, PLEASE fill out the below questionnaire and send any [...]

Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo spoke and answered questions before a large audience at the Austin Cycling Association meeting last night. Before we talk about the rest, let’s get the Austin Police Chief’s “big faux pas”  out of the way: In the middle of a really long answer about sharing the road, APD Chief [...]

Though I have only been able to make one of them, I’m a big fan of the Thursday Night Road Ride organized by local roadie Daniel Sato. To allow people to both race the Cat 4/5 at The Driveway Crits and be able to ride the Thursday Night Road Ride, Daniel has moved the time [...]

Stretching has been getting a lot of attention in sports literature recently, so I thought it would be a good time to talk about its role in sports conditioning. First off, it is important to understand the purpose of stretching: to increase range of motion (ROM) about a specific joint by stretching the muscles around [...]

Edit: Part 2 of the review is here, with a slideshow of the damage to my laptop along with a rebuttal of Axiom support. How does an $80 bag turn into a $1000 bag? Read on. Summary: The Axiom Transition pannier is an attractive, functional bag for urban commuters that unfortunately suffers from terrible design [...]

Miami has been trying to ramp up their bike infrastructure in a huge hurry the past couple years. The Mayor has committed to spending at least $1 million on bike lanes in 2009, Transit Miami reports. Elliott’s put together a great list of photos from NAHBS, but I couldn’t help but want to share this [...]