Posts from ‘January, 2010’

In early January, the League of Bicycling Voters put out a bike boulevard plan for Nueces Street as the cycling community’s best effort to create a true bike boulevard within some constrictions. The LOBV now has an online petition up where you can voice your support for this plan. It is important that the bike [...]

Last night, the City of Austin held its second in a three part series of open houses on the proposed bicycle boulevard on Nueces Street. While city staff maintained publicly that all options were still on the table,  a source told A2W that a high level city staffer communicated to cycling advocates that Nueces as [...]

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 [...]

Will good public policy prevail or will a handful of property owners derail the first major project of the Master Bike Plan? Tonight is the second in a three part series of open houses on a proposed bicycle boulevard for Nueces Street from 3rd Street to MLK downtown. All are welcome at this public forum [...]

Seattle Bike Supply working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a voluntary recall of their 2010 Redline Conquest Pro cyclocross bike. The bicycle’s fork legs can separate from the fork crown and cause the rider to lose control, posing a risk of serious injury if the rider falls. The firm is aware of [...]

In the fall of 2008, we reported on a south Austin bike shop that had put itself up for sale on Craig’s list. After talking to the owner, he requested that we not disclose which shop it was. It turns out South Side, the store in question, did not find a buyer and will cease [...]

Attend this Wednesday’s Bike Boulevard Open House to bring back bikeable streets If you pay much attention to rail history in this country, you’ll know the current move to build light rail and street cars system in the many American cities is a movement to restore rail that was widespread until the 1950s. Most American [...]

Over the weekend, KVUE ran this story on Mariel Mentink, a Chicago resident who was severely injured in a hit and run accident early New Year’s Day while coming home from the Social Cycling ATX New Year’s Eve ride. Police are looking for a gray or silver SUV or truck with recent front end damage [...]

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Austin on Two Wheels reader survey. Last week we drew from participants, and Austinite Amy Dolejs won our Flashbak giveaway and Jeff Gjertsen won the Velo Orange leather saddle. We’ll leave the survey up through the end of January in case you didn’t get to participate, and you [...]

Yesterday, Austin had its first Tweed ride, the Dapper Dan Dash with a nice attendance of about 80 cyclists. Hosted by The Peddler Bike Shop, Austin has come late to the Tweed ride concept despite our vibrant social cycling scene. I blame it on the fact that our Texas climate means there’s only 20-30 days [...]