Posts from ‘August, 2009’

If you read a lot of cycling sites, eventually you’ll come across Fat Cyclist. It is a well written, humorous site about racing, riding, and bike culture. If you’ve read it recently, you’ll know that the author’s wife, Susan, was battling cancer and there was a whole group of Team Fatty riders nationwide raising over [...]

There is a TON of bike related stuff this week on the order of we’ve not seen since Bike Month thanks to the Bicycle Film Festival. There are screenings all weekend starting Friday night, Gold Sprints, and Austin’s first Bike Polo Tournament. If racing is more your thing, the State Time Trail Championships is this [...]

The Austin Ridge Riders is the oldest and most well established mountain bike club in Austin. Judi Ronkartz, the president of the Austin Ridge Riders, was nice enough to sit down with Austin on Two Wheels and discuss the many facets of the club.

Bikes on the beach at Pace Bend
Bikes on the beach at Pace Bend

Ridge Riders in a nutshell…
When the Ridge Riders was established in 1987, mountain biking was still in its infancy. As mountain biking has grown, so has the Ridge Riders. If you ride on a trail in Austin the Ridge Riders have likely had a hand in it. Besides trail work, the Ridge Riders promote safe environmentally friendly biking, organize rides, volunteer at biking related events and work to the benefit of mountain biking in the greater Austin Area. The Ridge Riders are as passionate about giving back to the community as they are about having fun. Calling them a club may be selling them short as an organization. If it’s Austin and its mountain biking, it’s also the Ridge Riders. Follow the link to read more.

Austin on Two Wheels welcomes our latest site sponsor, the Law Office of Jennifer R. Cochran. Jennifer is a local cyclist and author of the blog, MTB Law Girl. She volunteers with BikeTexas and is developing a “Cycling and Texas Law” series for us in the near future. In her practice, Jennifer focuses on providing [...]

The August Full Moon Cruise got left off our weekly round up of cycling events, so if you don’t have to work earily on Thursday or just want to go for a ride after the Bikes Rock concert come on out. August Full Moon Cruise: Full Sturgeon Moon Wednesday, August 5 11:59 PM Lamar Blvd [...]

For over three decades, Austin developers and citizens have been dreaming up something big for the Waller Creek corridor, the area along Waller Creek downtown from Lady Bird Lake up to the University of Texas campus, and it looks like things are finally rolling. According the City of Austin official page on the project, urban [...]

On Monday, we let you know about an online petition that is asking the Iowa legislature to ban bicycle on all Iowa farm to market roads. Not to be out done, a group calling itself the Coalition for the Safety of Citizens of Iowa put together a humorous counter petition, Stop sharing Iowa FM roads. [...]

Thanks to everyone who played our Austin Bike Culture Quiz and Bikes Rock concert ticket giveaway. Congrats to Rob D’Amico, Terry O’Halloran, Jessica Sajak, and Andrew Wade who answered our quiz questions correctly and were drawn to received two free passes to the concert tonight. Thanks to the BFF staff for providing the free passes [...]

Austinites are no longer limited to a stretch of Barton Springs when looking for a triathlon specific shop for their tri needs. VO2 Triathlon and Cycles is now open in North Austin at 9222 Parmer Lane. They are open Monday – Friday, 9am to 7pm, and Saturdays, 10am to 6 pm. They carry Kestrel and [...]

Hertz, the giant car rental company, has a car sharing service, called Connect By Hertz which is expanding to new cities very quickly. For an overview, I recommend this Dave Brooks article today in World Streets. This is interesting because Hertz seems to be taking on Zipcar, the current largest carsharing service, directly. From the [...]