After a full house at REI last week, Laura Crawford and Russ Roca from the site Path Less Pedaled will be doing a second class tonight on all the basic info you need to do unsupported bicycle touring. Laura and Russ are riding across the US and writing about it. They’ve already been taking in [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
Dirt Derby returns with spring series every Tuesday
After a rain and mud delay of a few weeks, the Dirt Derby is back with their second in the weekly Anaerobic Annihilation race tonight out at the Austin/Del Valle Motorcross Park (ADVMX). The B race race starts at 6.30, A race at 7.30. There is once again booty to be gotten by racing: Each [...]
City updates bike boulevard, drops Nueces Street from the name
Pro-business economist Angelos Angelou hired to do economic analysis Yesterday, the City of Austin put out a release announcing updates to the bicycle boulevard planning process. Noticably missing are now are the words Nueces Street. I drew some criticism by publishing a remark from un-named city staff about Nueces being dead, but it appears these [...]
MetroRail to limit number of bikes to 8 per train
After a week of operations under their belt, Capital Metro announced today that they will be limiting the number of bicycles on each train to 4 per car or 8 total on each Red Line train. The problem cited is safety: Bikes by themselves are not exactly the problem; too many bikes sharing the space [...]
Austin on Two Wheels makes 55 Bicycle Sites To Go Green & Get Fit
Hey, we’re moving up in the world! Last year A2W was ranked #39 in the Top 50 Cycling sites in the world and made the recently published list of the 55 Bicycle Sites To Go Green & Get Fit. The site Environmental Science Degrees ranked us #11 between Bike Hugger and Bicycle Design. Thanks!
Friday Film Fun: More awesome riding from Danny McAskill plus a Ghostbuster rides in ATX
If you haven’t seen the incredible bike skills of Scotsman biker Danny McAskill, you are in for a real treat. Amazing is all I can say. More locally, former Ghostbuster Bill Murray was in town for SXSW last week and stopped by Mellow Johnny’s while riding around our fair city and indulged staff with this [...]
Ride to Save the Cathedral of Junk this Sunday
In case you hadn’t heard, some administrative paper pushers at the City of Austin recently threatened to make artist Vince Hannemann tear down the Cathedral of Junk unless it can be made to comply with city building code. This is the same city government that has used this South Austin landmark to promote Austin’s unique [...]
Using a bike to transport a bike
As part of the Discover the City on Two Wheels Spring Urban Living Rides we’re doing, we are going to offer folks a chance to test ride some cool bikes like the bakfiets, the Dutch cargo box bike ubiquitous in Amsterdam and Copenhagen as the cyclists version of the SUV. Local developers at Constructive Ventures [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 3/25- 3/31/10
UPDATE: I inadvertently left the Rosedale Ride off the list of recommended events. It’s an awesome ride and the shirt design this year is pretty cool. Sorry guys. Sorry this is getting up a little late this week. Google calendar problems slowed my progress. I guess I can’t complain about free! The insane crowds of [...]
A2W to bring Spring Urban Living Ride series in April, need your help to make it happen
Help put Austin on the map as the cycling mecca of the U.S. It’s spring time, and there’s no better way to experience Austin than by bike. I have teamed up with Keith Byrd from Social Cycling ATX to put together the Discover the City on Two Wheels Spring Urban Living Ride series in April [...]
