Posts from ‘April, 2009’

Surely you are… aren’t you? Since I enrolled on Thursday, I have recorded 36 miles for 8 trips. Pretty easy to beat, right? The best member of the League of Bicycling Voters team is Tim Diller with 130 miles over 23 trips so far. Impressive. Let me know how the rest of you are doing. [...]

I finally got a chance to go see hard court bike polo this weekend! Week after week Elliott and I have been putting this on our list of “must see” cycling events around town but this is the first time it has worked out. Riding up to Eastwoods Park in the worst headwind since Thursday [...]

Searching through Google news these past two or three days, I’ve come across a TON of mentions of the City of Austin Bike Sharing program. Kudos to them so far on the initial interest and coverage and let’s all hope this will translate into enthusiastic usage of the program. The Caffeinated Cyclist North Loop Neighborhoods [...]

Cyclicio.us has some very sharp photos from the San Diego Custom Bike Show along with a full trip report from the event. There are are some amazing bikes in this set. My favorite is the randoneering bike from Rene Herse that’s right in the middle of the set.

…between Copenhagenize and Amsterdamize: Slow Bicycle Race – Copenhagenize vs Amsterdamize from Colville Andersen on Vimeo.

It’s been a long while since we’ve done a Bicycle News Roundup around here! Every time I start to put one together it seems like the stories are big enough to merit their own post. While you’re enjoying this beautiful weekend, be sure and check out these notes: We might be behind our peer cities [...]

via TexBiker.net – Cycling Sports Group (formerly the Cannondale Sports Group) plans to consolidate all North American product development, marketing and business management functions for the four cycling brands Cannondale, Schwinn, GT and Mongoose to Bethel, CT, said Dorel Industries in a press release this week. Bike frame manufacturing will shift from the Bedford, PA [...]

The seller seems to be in Dallas, but if you just gotta get your own personal pedicab to give all your friends rides in, fork over $700 and this baby could be yours! Not every day you see a pedicab for sale hiding amongst all the ads for “vintage” Huffys. Is this thing up to [...]

  Long time readers of the site will remember I took a framebuilding class in December from master framebuilder Doug Fattic. I also positively reviewed the class here.   Well, Doug is teaching some more classes and has had a cancellation for his April class. The only downside is you’ve got to get yourself to [...]

The City Department of Public Works has put out this statement regarding MLK, Jr. Blvd which might effect cyclists this weekend: Weather permitting; the City’s contractor will place the final layer of asphalt on MLK, Jr. Blvd from Lamar Boulevard to Pearl Street this weekend on Saturday, April 4 and Sunday, April 5. MLK will [...]