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Posts on ‘May 4th, 2009’

(Mystery?) Bike in Movie Night Tonight at Cafe Mundi

Bike in Movies are continuing over at Cafe Mundi in East Austin, and there’s one scheduled for tonight at 7pm too. I called a few times but they had no idea what movie was going to be shown, so just show up and it will be a SURPRISE! They promised it would be good. Bike [...]

Austin Commuter Challenge Happy Hour tonight and every Monday in May

Just sent over from Leslie Luciano at Bicycle Sport Shop: Attention all Austin Commuter Challenge participants! There will be a Happy Hour tonight at Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant from 5:30pm to 7pm. Meet at the pedestrian bridge at 5pm or meet us there. The first 10 people at Rio Grande will receive a complimentary beverage. [...]

Shepard Fairey designs bikes for Lance Armstrong

These pictures are posted here via Lance Armstrong’s twitter feed, so if you’re following him you’ve already seen these. The bikes look great, though, so I wanted to get them all together in one place for people who might have missed this over the weekend. Shepard Fairey, he of the Obama Poster and ‘Giant’ poster [...]

LEED-ND standards could be great for bikes

Urban planning organization the Congress for the New Urbanism is working on developing green building standards that go beyond just a single structure and the lot it sits on and, for the first time, takes context into account. Together with the U.S. Green Building Council, the CNU is developing guidelines for making whole neighborhoods walkable, [...]