Posts from ‘July, 2009’

Wired magazine recently produced a list of five iPhone applications that you can use with your bike. Most are pretty silly and not practical, but the GPS powered cyclometer Speed could help replace a Garmin with a few more features like an interface with Google Maps or MapMyRide. Also, the Gear Calucator is a cool [...]

Just a quick reminder that voting in the Austin Chronicle‘s Best of Austin Reader Poll ends on Tuesday. There are tons of categories including best Bike Ride and Bike repair. Social Cycling ATX has been doing some serious lobbying for their Thursday Night Urban Ride for the best Bike Ride. In the category for best [...]

Editor Note: This article was sent to us by Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Coordinator for the City of Austin, which was written for the Southwest Cycling New, the monthly newspaper of the Austin Cycling Association. She heads the Bike/Ped section  of the Public Works Department and works with her staff to implement the Master Bicycle [...]

Social Cycling ATX recently added a higher paced evening ride on Mondays to the mix to suppliment the Thursday Night Urban Ride.  Here are the details: Heavy Metal Fitness Ride hosted by Social Cycling ATX Monday’s, 7 PM, Ride leaves at 7:30 Sharp Lamar Blvd Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge The Metal Heads really picked up the [...]

This event was sent to me yesterday from Tasty Touring and got left off the weekly calendar roundup. It is designed as a walk, but I’m sure you can more efficiently get to your libations on your bike. East Side Pub Crawl Saturday, July 18 7 p.m. – Black Star Co-op July Beer Social at [...]

I did not get around to posting these on Friday but still wanted to share. The first video comes from last weekend’s Double Down Ladies’ Alleycat Race. The second is a great video from StreetsFilms critiquing various locking jobs on bikes on the streets of New York. The host appears to be the same bike [...]

The Yellow Bike Project just announced in their monthly newsletter a microloan program to get the rest of the financing for their new headquarters. Here’s what they say about the program: After learning that our arrangement with the city for our new headquarters will prevent us from taking out conventional loans, Yellow Bike is kicking [...]

Members of the Bicycle Advisory Council vented their frustration with City Bike/Ped staff last night at the lack of notice given for last minute changes to the Master Bike Plan adopted by the Austin City Council in June. The changes were made just days before the Council adopted the final plan, and while they were [...]

Tonight is the meeting of the City of Austin Bicycle Advisory Council and part of the agenda includes discussion of proposed amendments to the recently adopted Master Bicycle Plan. The suggested changes come from Jim Carrillo, a planning consultant hired by the City with Halff Associates, Inc. The amendments include the removal of Speedway on [...]

Talk about a convergence of green concepts. Designer Chiyi Chen has come up with a concept that combines bike sharing, renewable energy, and regenerative hybrid technology into one system. The Hybrid2 would use ultracapacitors to store the energy produced by a bicycle and feed it back into the grid when the bike is put back [...]