“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles On Friday, I dropped off my latest custom city bike to the customer. She choose the Ma Ferguson, the step through “woman’s” style to replace a her recumbent. She had gotten the recumbent for comfort [...]
Posts on ‘August 17th, 2009’
Cycling Community Wants More Bike Education – Where is it?
Editor Note: Eileen Schaubert, Mellow Johnny’s Community Outreach person, took the Austin Police Department’s bicycle training in July and is doing a series of articles for A2W about her experience. I’ve just spent three days out at the Austin Police Department’s training academy as the first civilian to take their mountain bike patrol class. I [...]
Safe Routes Action Committee looking for feedback on future projects
Safe Routes to School, a project of the Austin/ Travis County Health and Human Services Department, works with schools and communities to increase walking and biking to school safely. This is achieved through education and promotion efforts such as media campaigns, promotional activities & contests, educational presentations, and community involvement. This is a non-infrastructure project [...]
