Posts from ‘March, 2009’

Sitting around people watching a bit on second street Tuesday I saw this cyclist fly by and grabbed a quick photo with my Blackberry. I though it was impressive how his bike and safety vest matched so exactly. This is one commuter who will be SEEN in traffic.

My experience: About a six weeks ago, I put a VO Model 8 saddle on my Xtracycle and have been riding it several times a week. Function: 5/5 Style: 5/5 Build Quality: 4/5 Overall: 5/5 Availability: Retails for $85 in Brown or Black at retailers who stock Velo Orange products or directly from the Velo [...]

Thanks to Bicycle Sport Shop‘s Leslie Luciano for sending over this revised, texas-focused release about the 2009 National Bike Summit! Record Number Attended 2009 Bike Summit! In total, 580 registrants from 47 states and four countries (Canada, Denmark, Czech Republic and the USA) visited more than 350 Congressional offices on Thursday, March 12. More than [...]

Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll add your [...]

You may have noticed some changes in the upper right corner of our site today. We’ve added three more links in addition to our usual RSS Feed and Email digest options! Twitter: yes we semi-old fogies have finally gotten on Twitter. Follow us for updates on rides and events along with news and other tidbits. [...]

Bicycle Sport Shop and the Texas Bicycle Coalition are teaming up to help increase memberships and get cyclists more power! Leslie Luciano at Bicycle Sport Shop sent in this announcement about a pilot program between the shop and TBC. At Bicycle Sport Shop you can get a Texas Bicycle Coalition premium membership for half price, [...]

From a blog post at Momentum magazine: check out these photos from the North American Handmade Bicycle Show! All photos were taken by David Niddrie.

There are four more opportunities to put in your two cents’ worth on the Austin Bike Plan before it becomes THE LAW. You can look at our full calendar for more details along the way but this is what’s left: April 14: The plan will be considered for recommendation by the Urban Transportation Commission April [...]

Editor’s note: Seattle writer Paul Andrews was kind enough to catch Metrofiets at the Seattle International Bicycle Expo for us and wrote this fantastic article. by Paul Andrews You’re thinking about taking the plunge and ditching the car. But you wonder: How will I shop for groceries? What about the toddlers? And what if I [...]

I just saw over at ATXBS that Fast Folks Cyclery, which I’m supposing is a new bike shop, is sponsoring an all day music festival at their new location, 2513 A. East 6th St., from 2 PM to 11 PM. They’ve arranged to have something like 19 bands from all over North America play which is pretty impressive.  Here’s [...]