We recently got this e-mail from the Rachel Fields, one of the authors of the new local cycling blog Two Chicks on Bikes. Dear Austin On Two Wheels, My friend, Kathleen Rabe, and I are currently cycling around Europe for 2.5 months. We have been keeping a blog, Two Chicks On Bikes, of reflections on [...]
Posts on ‘June 23rd, 2009’
Rapha and Mellow Johnny’s celebrate Breaking Away with our own Little 500 Race
This year marks the 30th anniversary of arguably the best cycling film of all time, Break Away. It is a movie about blue collar/white collar classicism and growing up to adulthood, but bikes play a central roll with the racing of the Little 500 at the end. This track bike race started in 1951 and modeled [...]
