Via ATXBS: the great Wheels of Wonderland performance being put on by the Austin Bike Zoo (read our review of it here) has had to change their schedule and location for this weekend: Saturday’s performance will be at their 91 Red River location and start at 6:00pm.
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
Texas slides 6 places in ’09 Bike Friendly State Rankings
Just out today are the 2009 rankings from the League of American Bicyclists, and the news isn’t good for our state. Last year, we were ranked 30th by their measures of “bike friendliness” and now we’re down to 36th. Ouch. From the LAB website, a description of the rankings: The Bicycle Friendly State Program is [...]
Universal Sports adds last minute Giro d’Italia coverage
Tomorrow, the Giro d’Italia, the first grand tour of the season, begins it’s three week journey around Italy celebrating its 100th year. The Giro has a special place in my heart as it was the first bike race I ever watched years ago when Versus (then OLN) used to do daily coverage a la the Tour [...]
Some notes from Seattle
One thing that’s been great since we started this site is that we’ve met a lot of great writers from bike sites here in Austin and beyond. Just Monday, for example, we met the writer of local blog Cyclebum. A couple of the best bloggers we’ve met so far are Anne and Tim from the [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 5/7- 5/13/09
Bike Month is in full swing, and there are a whole lot of events for those on two wheels.n We’ve got the annual Armadillo Hill Country Classic, the Full Moon Cruise, and plus the Central Slow Crawl Ride if you are not feeling too ambitious. And once again we have some events just for the ladies. If [...]
Movie night at Mellow Johnny’s featuring local framebuilders
Last night was Movie Night at Mellow Johnny’s, a series of weekly events they are trying to continue at least through bike month. This week’s movie night featured local framebuilders in person along with some other custom bikes from various builders. One bike there was a Hetchins, a beautifully kept vintage bicycle from England featuring [...]
Application for Cargo Framebuilding Apprenticeship opens
A couple of weeks ago when we wrote about the growing list of American builders making Bakfiets, Dutch style box cargo bikes, we mentioned that the Center for Appropriate Transportation in Eugene, OR, offers a five month apprenticeship in cargo bike building. They’ve just opened up registration for their next session which starts July 15 and [...]
Innovative transportation policy sacrificed on the altar of bipartisanship
Plus Obstacycle and other thoughts of the day There have recently been a few items I wanted to share but didn’t necessarily warrant separate posts. Marcus might have done this as a news roundup, but I’ll just submit this random assortment of ideas. Transportation Secretary says he’d be just as happy being in charge of [...]
(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. [...]
