Posts from ‘May, 2009’

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 [...]

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, [...]

From Rob D’Amico of the League of Bicycling Voters: League of Bicycling Voters Early Voting Rally (Chris Riley will be in attendance) Sunday, May 3 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Woolridge Square (9th and Guadalupe) (Early Vote polls are across the street at the Courthouse….closes at 6 p.m.) I believe they plan on pulling out [...]

Last night my wife and I went to the Austin Bike Zoo’s HQ at 91 Red River for something Elliott had put on the calendar. I had no idea what to expect, but we ended up being really glad we were there! The Bike Zoo is putting on a performance they call “Wheels of Wonderland,” [...]

From our events calendar: Give your old bike a new life by donating it to the Austin Yellow Bike Project during Bike Month! REI Austin Downtown (6th and Lamar) will host a bike drive on Sunday, May 3rd, 2009, for the Austin Yellow Bike Project. The donated bikes will be fixed up by Yellow Bike [...]

I’ll have a full writeup later today but I had to get over to an early morning event at Mellow Johnny’s. For now, here’s a slideshow of Friday’s Political Pedal and Cyclist Happy Hour. I was very glad to see our Police Chief Art Acevedo there.

As you may have read in the New York Times or Bike Portland, there was a bike tour featuring 200 bright orange Batavus bikes in NYC  on Thursday. They now have a Flickr slideshow up of the event, which we feature below: For more on this cool event, which was unfortunately overshadowed in Holland by [...]

I just saw over at ATXBS that now barber shops are getting in on the Bike Month activities. All this month, Birds Barbershop is offering free shampoos to cyclists who come in for a cut on their bike. Better yet, they promise they have racks at all their locations.

In the latest issue of Urban Velo you may want to take a look at page 81, ’cause right there in the mix is an ad for a little company we know a thing or two about. See for yourself in the online version!

Don’t forget: Bike Month officially kicks off at Austin City Hall, 11:30ish today. Then this afternoon around 4:50pm gather at City Hall again for the 13th annual Political Pedal and happy hour! Keep up with all the Bike Month events on our event calendar and the Austin Cycling Association Bike Month calendar.