The Austin Bike Polo Social Club‘s regular Sunday hardcourt bike polo match has been moved this week to the covered basketball courts at Metz Park (2407 Canterbury St) in East Austin. The match will start at 2 PM sharp. For a refreshed on bike polo, take a look at our recent article on the ATXBPSC [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
Friday Film Fun: Klunkerz Trailer
Klunkerz is a movie about the early days and development of the mountain bike. I’ve not had a chance to seen this award winning documentary, but it looks like something along the lines of Dogtown and Z-Boys, a movie that the dedicated will love but the general public will find interesting as well. The film [...]
Austin on Two Wheels turns one year old today
Help make year Two even better with your contribution of stories and reviews Whew, what a year. One year ago today, Marcus and I launched Austin Bike Blog after a conversation at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin. We started the site as a place to promote transportation cycling and share our thoughts on the [...]
Armstrong to move to new Team Radio Shack
Yesterday, we reviewed some of the off road drama going on at the Tour de France regarding post race sponsorships and what will happen to the currently dominant Team Astana. Today, a website featuring Armstong under the name Team RadioShack was launched and with more announcement expected today and in the next week. Team RadioShack? [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 7/23- 7/29/09
With summer showers keeping the temperatures below 100, you might just want to get out and ride your bike. Still, there is indoor respite with Jack and Adam’s sponsoring a Tour Watch Party of the possible decisive penultimate stage on Mont Ventoux on Saturday night with lots o’ schwag and the GoldSprints Series starting on [...]
Gold Sprints series starts up in Austin
ATXBS is reporting that a weekly Gold Sprints series called 42Below Gold Sprints has started up and will be running every few days through mid August. If you are not familiar with Gold Sprints, it is an indoor race where two bikes on trainers are set up next to one another and riders sprint against [...]
Armstrong rumored to be jumping the Astana ship
As the Tour de France heats up in the Alps, the rumor mills are swirling around who will be riding for who in the current Astana powerhouse. VeloNews is reporting that Johan Bruyneel, the director of Astana and for Lance Armstrong during all his Tour winning years, will be leaving as the head of Team [...]
Route Report: Shoal Creek Bridge at 3rd closed this week
The Bike/Ped Divison over at the City of Austin sent over this closure announcement regarding the 3rd Street Hike and Bike bridge over Shoal Creek: To Shoal Creek Trail users: There will be a full trail closure sometime this week (the week of July 20th) on the 3rd Street Bridge over Shoal Creek for the [...]
Mellow Johnny’s Free Alps Stage Tour Watch Party this Wednesday Morning
This Wednesday, Mellow Johnny’s will be hosting a breakfast viewing the Alpine Stage 17 of the Tour de France. They will be joined by JB & Sandy from 94.7 FM, and there will be free mimosas, giveaways, and a chance to win 2 entries to the Livestrong Challenge. Tour de France Stage 17 Watch Party [...]
Bike Infrastructure: What we can learn from Seattle
Over the July 4th holiday, I visited Seattle to see some family, but I also took my travel bike with me to get in some riding and test the new Versa Shifters for internal hub (review coming later this week.) Now that I have been back in Austin for a few weeks, I’ve reflected on [...]
