The wet weather has run afoul with the Dirt Derby again making the track conditions unraceable. We’ll see if the third time is a charm for Ladies Night next Tuesday in this weekly cyclocross and short track mountain bike series.
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
New A2W Sponsor: Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop
Austin on Two Wheels is happy to announce our latest sponsor, Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop. Most people know the downtown shop at 4th and Nueces as Lance Armstrong’s bike shop, but a lot of people don’t know all the cool events and advocacy this shop does for the Austin cycling community. In addition to one [...]
Guest post from Bike Noob: The Bike Fest
Editor Note: Bike Noob is a local blog covering road riding in Austin with ride and race reports, useful tips, and long term product testing. The Noob recently wrote about his experience at the Bike Fest at Kiker Elementary School in southwest Austin and agreed to let us re-post here. I wanted to share this [...]
Framebuilder happy hour tonight & two more builders confirmed for the Texas Custom Bicycle Show
The Texas Custom Bicycle Show is coming in five weeks, and as a warm up several local builders will be meeting this evening for a Framebuilders Happy Hour. They’ll be showing off some of their latest work, answering questions, and end up with a social ride (if it doesn’t rain on us!) If you are [...]
David Byrne cycling round table coming one week from Sunday
Next Sunday, September 27, author, cyclist, and former Talking Heads front man David Bryne will be coming to Austin to lead a round table discussion on the future of cities and transportation. This event is being hosted by the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation and is part of Bryne’s tour promoting his new book, Bicycle [...]
Austin Master Bike Plan wins State Planning Project Award
Kudos to the City of Austin Bicycle & Pedestrian Program for winning the very competitive State Planning Project Award for their work on the recently adopted 2009 Austin Master Bike Plan. The City will officially accept the award at the annual conference of the Texas Chapter of the American Planners Association in October in Galveston. [...]
Friday Film Fun: Whoa, Sixteen girls on one bike?
A few weeks ago, I shared the amazing video of two German girls doing artistic cycling. I was impressed but not nearly as impressed as I was of this video of Chinese acrobats doing routines on bicycles. There are flips on and off the shoulders of the riders, and the finale includes 16 girls on [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 9/17- 9/23/09
Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll [...]
LOBV adds staff, Bike-in Movies with Beer, and update on City bike projects
The League of Bicycling Voters recently sent out a newsletter with some interesting developments including the hiring of an Executive Director, Tom Wald. Tom is active in the cycling community serving on the City of Austin Bicycle Advisory Council as well as the person running Orange Bike. The hiring of a staff person shows the [...]
Messenger hang out, Little City, to close doors by January 2011
In a follow up to my post earlier today about the decline of the bicycle courier service, it looks like the Austin bike messenger community is getting a double hit. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for pointing out the Austin American Stateman report that Little City, long a beloved coffee house hang out for messengers [...]
