Welcome to the fifth installment of my month-long series about me and the 30 days of biking challenge. Over the month of April, I will take my bike out for at least a short ride every day. I’m also hoping to reduce my car use and perhaps even shed a pound or two. You might [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2010’
Friday Film Fun: Schwinn says “Let’s go for a Ride”
The social cycling scene in Austin is absolutely on fire these days. Led by the success of Social Cycling Austin and their Thursday Night Social Ride, social rides are popping up everywhere. In addition to Austin on Two Wheel‘s current spring ride series, the Austin Cycling Association is forgoing their May meeting for a social [...]
Texas 4000 Style Show reception tonight at BoConcept Austin
The Texas 4000 is the longest charity bicycle ride in the world. Student teams ride 4,687-miles beginning in Austin, Texas and finishing in Anchorage, Alaska. Money raised benefits cancer research. To kick off the 2010 ride, BoConcept Austin will be hosting a fashion show tonight starting at 6 PM to benefit the Texas 4000. e [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 4/29- 5/5/10
Bike Month kicks off this weekend, and there’s lots of cycling goodness happening. The City of Austin will be having a big kickoff party Friday at City Hall then A2W will be having it’s final spring social ride, the Pampered Pedal, on Saturday. Yellow Bike Project will be having their grand opening party on Saturday [...]
Submission deadline for Austin Bike Poster Show this Friday
The Austin Bike Poster Show is looking for artists to submit their take on promoting cycling and celebrating Austin bike culture by this Friday. April 30. The show will select 25 posters to be part of the show which will run May 6- June 5 at Frame Corner at 5601 Adams Avenue, located north central [...]
Oak Cliff residents make guerilla complete streets
I was going to make this Friday’s Film Fun, but I think it’s just too cool to wait. Dallas hasn’t exactly been known for embracing the bicycle and pedestrian, but the fine people at Bike Friendly Oak Cliff have been taking on the car culture in incredible ways the last couple years. First, they were [...]
Boggy Creek Farm Picnic ride wrap-up
After the weather gods forced us to reschedule the Pampered Pedal to May 1, the great weather we had for the Taste of Downtown returned this Saturday for the Boggy Creek Farm Picnic ride, the second in our three social ride series Discover the City on Two Wheels. The ride sold out Saturday morning, and [...]
Stolen Bike Report: 3 high end mountain bikes go missing last week
This comes in from Cameron Lindsay, a local racer and one of the guys behind the Dirt Derby. These bikes were stolen in San Antonio late last week, but often bikes stolen in one city end up in another in the Austin-San Antonio corridor. If you see these bikes or have any info, please contact [...]
1 mom, 2 kids, 30 days of bike: part 4
Welcome to the fourth installment of my month-long series about me and the 30 days of biking challenge. Over the month of April, I will take my bike out for at least a short ride every day. I’m also hoping to reduce my car use and perhaps even shed a pound or two. You might [...]
Box biking the Gazelle Cabby around Austin
A couple years ago, I did a head-to-head comparison in cargo bike design between the long tail design made popular with the Xtracycle and the Bakfiets, the traditional box bike of Amsterdam and Copenhagen. At the time, I gave the Xtracycle the edge in its balance of day to day utility with generally fun ride. [...]
