As a teaser for next week’s Bicycle Film Festival, this week’s film is a trailer for the film, Anima D’Acciaio, about Italian frame builder Giovanni Pelizzoli, know to his fans as “Ciocc.” This film will be shown during the sixth program of the festival called Urban Bike Shorts on Saturday, August 8 at 9 PM. [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
Alabama bans wine with ‘racy’ label
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board pulls wine with naked nymph and bicycle In another News of the Weird moment, the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has banned the sale of Cycles Gladiator wine because the label has a drawing of a naked nymph riding a bicycle. The AP reports that: The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board [...]
A2W Contest: Free passes to Bikes Rock kickoff concert for the Bicycle Film Festivals
On Wednesday, August 5 at 8 PM, the Bicycle Film Festival will kickoff it’s tour stop in Austin with the Bikes Rock concert at La Zona Rosa featuring The Black Angels and Tia Cerrera. Tickets are $15 and can be ordered online. In partnership with the BFF, Austin On Two Wheels will be giving away [...]
Review: Versa 8 Speed Road Shifter for Shimano Internal Hub
My experience: I installed the Versa shifter/brake levers on my Ritchey Breakaway cyclocross bike and rode about 150 miles over a two week period. Function: 5/5 Style: 3/5 Build Quality: 5/5 Overall: 5/5 Price: $229 ($199 for a limited time directly from Dynamic Bicycles, 1-800-935-9553) Summary The Versa integrated road bar shifter/brake levers are a [...]
The challenge of overcoming the car culture
When President Obama was elected, one on his top priorities was to tackle global warming head on. After years of pro-polluting policies under the Bush administration and a Republican Congress, it seemed like our country was finally ready to face the fact that continuing on the oil dependent, over consuming path we have chosen is [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 7/30- 8/5/09
The Bicycle Film Festival is still a week off yet there are tons of events going on this week including Gold Sprints, Critical Mass, an alleycat race benefiting the Yellow Bike Project, and my favorite “just for the shirt” triathlon, Jack’s Generic Tri. Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week [...]
Free cycling safety class to be held in Wells Branch Thursday night
The Austin Cycling Association will be holding condensed, cycling safety class Thursday night at the Wells Branch Community Library in far north Austin. It will be a one hour class based on the League of American Bicyclists Traffic 101 program ACA regularly hosts, but this one is free. The program will focus primarily on safety [...]
Training with life’s demands: an example of balance and success.
If you’ve been reading this blog over the last few months, you will have picked up on a few key aspects of my training philosophy: *evidence based exercise prescription *emphasis on quality over quantity *keeping it simple, fun, and adaptable to a real-world environment *focus on specificity of the events For the most part, these [...]
A2W updates its sponsor packages, looking for new sponsors
Austin on Two Wheels has recently redone its sponsor package and is looking for new sponsors for our site. We offer several different sponsor packages starting as low as $50/month for banner ads and $25/month for text ads. Sponsoring is done on a monthly basis, but we do offer discounts and free ad design with [...]
Family of cyclist killed in wreck asking parole board to deny parole of intoxicated driver
On August 26, 2006, Austin cyclist Arjun Khanna was struck and killed by driver Jeremy Ron Wigley. Police found Wigley to be intoxicated, and since he was on parole for earlier convictions, he was jailed and later convicted of Intoxication Manslaughter. This conviction carries a ten year term in addition to Wigley’s previous convictions. Wigley [...]
