Posts from ‘August, 2009’

The national group Losing the Training Wheels is teaming up with the Down Syndrome Association of Central Texas to put on a Losing the Training Wheels Camp next week at the Crockett Center. The organization seeks to teach children with disabilities how to ride a bike without training wheels. They are in need of volunteers [...]

Once a year, the University of Texas Police Department holds an auction of unclaimed or seized bicycles from the UT campus. It has been scheduled this year for Thursday, September 3. You can view the bikes to be auctioned at the UTPD site. Bikes are in varying degrees of entropy, but if you are looking [...]

Sunday was the last night of the Austin leg of the Bicycle Film Festival. The organization and support of the local cycling community this year far surpassed last years hastily put together stop. Five days of activities offered something for everyone from music to rides to alleycats to bike polo to a whole lot of [...]

My wife and I attended the 6pm showings at the Bicycle Film Festival Saturday and had a great time. This particular program had two shorts and one feature. The crowd size was really impressive – we got there plenty early and were waaay back in line to get in. Glad to see the festival draw [...]

The Bicycle Film Festival will be winding down its Austin stop today but there is still plenty to see if you’ve missed out so far. Watching the Bike Polo Tournament at Metz Park is free and film sessions are at 501 Studios. Tickets are $10/session. Sunday’s sessions are repeats of sessions earlier this weekend. Bicycle [...]

Friday was the third day for the Bicycle Film Festival, and now we are into the meat of things. There were two film sessions Friday night. The first featured the full length “Where are you go.” The film documented the 4 month long 2008 Tour d’Afrique, a ride that goes from Cairo to Cape Town [...]

Brian Davies from the Bicycle Film Festival is still looking for volunteers for this weekends events. The biggest shortage right now is for working checkpoints for Saturday mornings’ Triple Alleycat race, but they probably will need help elsewhere. If you want to help, contact Brian via e-mail or (512) 576-5849

Last night was the second night of the five day Austin stop of the Bicycle Film Festival. The main event on Thursday was an art show called Joyride at an East Austin studio called Co-Lab. I rode over with the ATX Social Cycling’s Thursday Night Urban Ride which is always a blast and is consistently [...]

We’d like to welcome Bicycle Sport Shop as the latest sponsor of Austin on Two Wheels. BSS owner Hill Abell served on the StreetsSmarts Task force that helped in the Master Bike Plan revisions and a has been a leader in Austin cycling advocacy for years. We are happy to have his store support our [...]

Last night kicked off the Austin stop of the Bicycle Film Festival with the Bikes Rock concert at La Zona Rosa. The show was headlined by The Black Angels and Tia Cerrera. About 200 people were in attendance at the beginning of the show. Many came by bike, however there was very little in the [...]