Posts from ‘April, 2009’

While updating our comprehensive calendar of Austin Cycling events this weekend, I came across these rides that got left off the weekly event roundup. April 22-26, Art Alliance Austin is hosting their Art Week Austin, a series of citywide visual art happenings produced both by Art Alliance Austin and partner organizations.  Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop is [...]

This week The New York Times reported on what Marcus and I have always known: Dutch bikes aren’t only practical, they are very stylish. The Times goes on to mention how traditional European city bikes are becoming increasingly popular with the fashion set. This new It object is the glossy black Dutch bicycle, its design [...]

Over the last several months, we’ve begun producing profiles of local framebuilders like KirkLee and True Fabrication. To help you find a great local maker of hand built bicycles, we recently added a new section on our sidebar links listing all the Texas framebuilders we are aware of with active businesses. Here’s a quick rundown [...]

So I’m not sure how I’ve been doing this online cycling coverage for so long and never heard of The Bicyclists until last week. It is an online TV series featuring a wholesome Midwestern boy who moves to Portland to discover his inner cyclist. Or something. The series of five minute episodes give us some pretty [...]

I found this video today supporting a bill in the Oregon legislature to legalize rolling stops for cyclists. Under this law, cyclists would be able to treat stop signs as yield signs only being required to come to a complete stop when they must yield the right of way. This legalizes what the vast majority [...]

Every few years, someone does a study to tell us that the well meaning things we do to save the environment actually are hastening its destruction. Sustain Lane recently reported on such a study being done by Karl T. Ulrich, a professor at the Wharton School of the Business at the University of Pennsylvania showing that [...]

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 event on and possibly [...]

Good Magazine is doing a contest this month called Project: Design a Livable Street and wants your submissions. Here are the details:   America’s streets leave a lot to be desired. As Carly Clark and Aaron Naparstek write in the latest issue ofGOOD, “For the most part, [traffic engineers] viewed the city from behind a windshield and [...]

Yesterday, KVUE ran a story about Capital Metro doing a pilot test of a bike locker called the BikeLid at the Northwest Austin Pavilion Park and Ride. From the story: “Some people may be apprehensive about leaving their expensive bikes here all day. So this is another way to encourage them to give it another [...]

Talk about mean streets. Here’s a story of a Newcastle, IN driver so enraged that a cyclist had stopped to talk to some kids that he bit the cyclist’s ear off. Sounds like somebody needs a little anger management. Full story here.