Posts from ‘July, 2009’

At KVUE, ratings trump community good and a little things like the facts On Tuesday, we published a statement from city staff asking cyclists to refrain from making their own bike lanes with paint. This statement was in response to some online musings about doing DIY lanes similar to those done in Los Angeles. Seeing [...]

ATXBS recently reported on a driver who aggressively passed the group in the July Moonlight Cruise and eventually hit some of the cyclists in the ride. A local photographer on the scene caught the incident in this video. The driver fled the scene after striking the cyclists with his car, but police caught up with [...]

MADRE, an international aid organization that works with women around the world to create long term solutions to local problems, has begun a program with Worldbike to provide bikes to women in eight communities around Nairobi, Kenya. Worldbike’s specially designed motor assist bikes allow women to carry drinking water and people much further than on [...]

There are a lot of great events this week including the Thursday night Urban ride which seems to get bigger and better each week, a Tour de France photo show the same night, a ladies alleycat race on Saturday, plus the pièce de résistance Breaking Away memorial Little 500 race on Sunday. Thanks to Jason [...]

Over at the Bicycle Austin forum e-mail list, a poster recently suggested some guerrilla street painting to carve out space for cyclists on Austin streets specifically on parts of Parmer Lane and along the IH-35 access road. The post was in response to a recent Bicycling magazine article about a group in Los Angeles that [...]

For a century, Detroit was the center of America’s slow dismantling of non-automotive forms of transportation, but with the American auto industry reeling, some are seeing the bicycle as a possible tool of renewal. The New York Times recently wrote how the flat and relatively deserted center city of the Motown have made for a [...]

Social Cycling ATX, the Facebook group that puts on the Thursday Urban Night Ride, has started a new ride for Monday night with a little less social pace. It looks like beer and other fun will still end the ride. Heavy Metal Fitness Ride Monday, July 6 8 PM Sharp! Lamar Blvd Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge [...]

From our Weekly Events Calendar: Mellow Johnny’s Tour de France Launch Party Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop, 400 Nueces St. 6pm-11pm, Sunday July 5 This event will celebrate the start of the 96th Tour in our parking lot with family activities, contests, raffles, and a viewing of Stage 1 on the big screen provided by Alamo [...]

This Dieter inspired Tour de France video from Kraftwerk got left out of my guide to the Tour de France yesterday. It’s a great way to start the Grand Depart. Enjoy!

We normally don’t cover international racing much at Austin on Two Wheels, but the Tour is the big one. With Austinite Lance Armstrong returning professional cycling to try for an eighth win, there is more interest than normal in the Grande Boucle. Here’s our quick intro to the Tour, where you can watch, and our [...]