Posts from ‘September, 2009’

Recently, the Washington Post published an article about the decline of the bicycle courier service in Washington, D.C. In the past, messengers have depended on the delivery of filings and legal papers to maintain the business. A confluence of events including the rise of electronic filings, security increases at government buildings, and the downturn in [...]

UPDATE: Due to track conditions, the Dirt Derby is canceled this week. Ladies Night will be rescheduled for next Tuesday. Although the Dirt Derby has had a decent women’s showing the last couple weeks, the weekly Tuesday cyclocross and mountain bike short track series wants more participation from the fairer sex. Tonight’s edition will be [...]

Tonight, the City of Austin will be holding an open house for feedback on plans for adding a bike lane on West 6th Street between Lamar and Patterson. Rob D’Amico from the League of Bicycling Voters has indicated some of the merchants in the area are trying to block the plan because 8, count ‘em, [...]

We got ourselves a copy of the film, Bicycle Dreams, from the film’s director last week. The film is about the crazy unique people who race the 3000 mile, coast to coast time trial called the Race Across America (RAAM). Look for a review later this week.

The Texas Custom Bicycle Show is less than six weeks away, and to whet your appetite for locally hand made bicycles, the Austin frame building community is holding hopefully what will be the first in a series of Austin Framebuilders’ Happy Hours. Local builders will have examples of their latest work, be on hand to [...]

One of our favorite shops, The Peddler, has moved to a new location down the road at 5015 Duval, at the corner of 51st and Duval. They’ll be having a causal stop in party this Sunday afternoon with some beer tastings whilst you check out the new digs. More on the Peddler in our shop [...]

This week’s videos highlight the struggle between good and evil all cyclists struggle with every day on the mean streets of America. The first has been making the rounds this week after it was posted then removed then re-posted and removed again on YouTube. Better watch it quick before it gets removed from Vimeo. Bike [...]

This missed the weekly events roundup. I got a message from ATX Babes on Bikes that the semi-regular Ladies Ride has been resurrected this Friday for a social ride to the Women’s Cycling Magazine kickoff at Mellow Johnny’s. Here are the details: Annie G suggested that we try to revive the Friday evening ladies cruize [...]

Most of you may be familiar with CAMPO (Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization) as the entity in charge of building most our highways, but they also have staff and programs dedicated to getting people out of their cars and onto bikes, buses, and eventually, next week, next month, next year some day Metrorail. Part of [...]

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 [...]