We have one more late addition to the cycling events calendar, a Lady Ride organized by ATX Babes on Bikes. If you are a lady and want to join others for this ride, just show up at the Lamar Blvd Pedestrian Bridge at 6:30 PM this Friday, June 12. For other girl powered rides, join the ATX [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
Tasty Touring’s South Austin Food Trailer Tour This Saturday
This event missed the weekly roundup, and we wanted to make sure everyone knew about it. Tasty Touring is a local blog that recently did an East Austin Taco Bike Tour, but is now tackling the rise of the South Austin Food Trailer. RSVP via their Facebook page and join them by bike to check all the [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 6/11- 6/17/09
Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll add your event on and [...]
Why this roadie really likes the new SRAM mountain group
Is the SRAM XX Mountain Group the death of the road triple? SRAM has released its latest mountain group, dubbed the XX, which is the first 20 speed mountain drive train on the market (i.e. 10 gear cassette and double chain ring.) For those mountain bikers wanting more info on this latest product release, both [...]
Austin cyclist “Reverend” David Dillon passes away
ATXBS is reporting that local cyclist David Dillon passed away last Friday at the age of 35. Here are more details: The Austin bike community lost a friend with the passing of David Dillon, known to friends as Reverend Dave, on Friday, June 5, 2009, at the age of 35. Dave moved to Austin from Oklahoma [...]
Austin cyclist shot with BB while riding
KVUE is reported last night on an Austin cyclist, Brad Urry, who was shot in the back with a BB gun while riding on Southwest Parkway in May. Urry said, two people in a light-blue Prius shot him in the back with a pellet gun and kept going. The half inch deep wound barely missed his spine. “When [...]
Early Bird Coffee Rides: a slow, social and heavily caffeinated way to start your Wednesdays
Terrific local event organizer Brooks Goldsmith of Social Cycling ATX and the rapidly growing Thursday night social rides has another great event you may not know about yet: Weekly Early Bird Rides! I had the pleasure of coming along for last week’s ride and had a great time. These rides are super casual and slow, [...]
City Council Action on the Master Bike Plan, Part Deux
Due to a technical snafu, the Austin City Council was not able to vote on the 2009 Austin Master Bike Plan when the plan was presented at the May 21 meeting. Instead, the plan is scheduled to be voted on this Thursday. While there was overwhelming support for the plan at the last meeting, this [...]
Violet Crown Age Group Crits Results, Pictures now online
On Saturday, the Violet Crown Sports Association hosted the Texas Age-Based State Criterium Championships at The Driveway. Results are now online with VC, Team Hotel San Jose, Team AT&T-Brain and Spine Cycling, and Austin Flyers all having some good showings and wins. In addition, local photographer Dave McLaughlin of DCM Photography was on hand to take some great [...]
Notice: Tuesday’s CAMPO Bicycle and Pedestrian Subcommittee Cancelled
I just got word that the monthly CAMPO Bicycle and Pedestrian Subcommittee meeting for June has been cancelled. Greg Griffin over at CAMPO did however mention a item on tonight’s CAMPO board agenda to fund an Interlocal Agreement with the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) for up to $100,000 to develop a bicycle and pedestrian traffic count and [...]
