Posts from ‘March, 2010’

On Saturday, SXSW was in full swing, and Seattle based BikeHugger hosted their fourth SXSW Mobile Social. This year’s was huge with over 1000 two wheelers, but luckily BikeHugger brought in the pros at SocialCyclingATX who regularly handle 100s of cyclists on Austin’s streets without major conflict with cars.  Their able ride leaders shepherded us [...]

This week the European Pro racing season kicked off in earnest with Paris-Nice, the Race for the Sun. With the race, comes the return of the play by play commentary of Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin and all their unique metaphors. Like anyone who watches coverage provided by this duo regularly, I’ve often had their [...]

Spring Break and SXSW start this weekend that there’s a crazy amount of stuff going on. Luckily, the weather should be beautiful. Finish out the ACA Traffic 101 mini clinics on Saturday morning and join in the massive SXSW BikeHugger Mobile Social with currently over 1800 RSVPs. Here’s a quick run down of recommended events [...]

The national film tour of Bike Porn 3: Cyclebound had its Austin stop moved from the Dobie Theater to 11 PM, tonight at Coldtowne Theater, 4803-B Airport Blvd. (next to I Luv Video). $8 or $6 for Austin Film Society Members, seniors and students.

Today, Google launched a bike route mapping option to their popular Google maps resource, and Austin was included in the cities with this option in its initial roll out. Google has been on the forefront of adding alternative transportation to their mapping programs with walking and transit options available in the last few years in [...]

This week is the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC, a meeting of all the major bicycle advocacy organizations to push for more resources for bikes as a valid form of transportation. At the summit, the Bikes Belong Coalition has rolled out their new People for Bikes initiative with a goal of getting the signed [...]

Bike Month is less than 60 days away, and the newly created Austin Bike Poster Show is looking for artists to submit their take on promoting cycling and celebrating Austin bike culture. The show will select 25 posters to be part of the show which will run May 6- June 5 at Frame Corner at [...]

Tweed Rides have gotten a lot of press lately, but for us Texans, denim and boots are more our style. Social Cycling ATX has picked up on this and is making this week’s Thursday Night Social Ride themed as a Denim Ride. I want to see stitched denim, bedazzled denim, jorts, denim jackets, denim loin [...]

Back in December, we shared a video that mentioned how Copenhagen is so focused on making bikes the preferred form of transportation that the lights on one of their major roads is timed to allow cyclists 6 km of travel without having to stop. Rotterdam is installing an even higher tech version called Evergreen that [...]

UPDATE: The Dropout is now offering a yearly subscription to their magazine for $20. This gets you 6 issues at a $1 off each plus a copy of this great zine delivered to your door. The Dropout Issue 3 Release Party Sunday, March 7, 7 PM Fast Folks Cyclery, 2513 East 6th St Austin’s very [...]