Posts from ‘April, 2010’

League of Bicycling Voter’s President blasts City of watered down bike boulevard proposal Today, City staff will release the initial recommendation on Austin’s first bicycle boulevard, and League of Bicycling Voter President Rob D’Amico pulled no punches in his displeasure in the plan. “First they took the word ‘Nueces’ out and began calling it the [...]

The first Austin Bike Summit will be held this weekend to bring all parts of the cycling community together to plan for what’s next in bike advocacy. The summit is hosted by the League of Bicycling Voters, Yellow Bike Project, Austin Cycling Association, and Bike Texas. Registration is free and all are invited. Friday, April [...]

Registration for Austin on Two Wheels’ Discover the City on Two Wheels Spring Urban Living Rides is now open, and we hope you’ll join us for these fun social rides. Austin on Two Wheels is teaming up with Keith Byrd from Social Cycling ATX offering three exceptional social rides in April that highlight the best [...]

Hi.  My name is Amy McFadden.  You may have seen me, or read about me, in some of Elliott’s other posts, such as the one about taking our son to kindergarten on my bike.  Over the past few years I have become a pretty regular bike-rider; being married to Elliott, it would be hard not [...]

Here’s is the week that was in cycling via the abridged version of Austin on Two Wheel‘s Twitter feed. This gives those not on Twitter or who missed our Tweets a chance to check out interesting bike related articles, photos, and videos from the week that might not warrant a full post on our site. [...]

If you had a bicycle stolen recently in Central Austin, the Austin Police Department wants to hear from you. Has your bike been stolen? Austin Police North Bureau detectives are currently investigating a series of bicycle thefts that occurred during the middle of February, in the area north of downtown and south of Koenig Lane. [...]

Much is brewing with the Downtown Bicycle Boulevard, formerly know as the Nueces Bicycle Boulevard, and I will be writing more about that in the coming weeks. In the meantime, I wanted to share this great StreetFilms video from Washington DC where traffic engineers took a formerly 4 lane one-way road and gave it a [...]

To all our friends, family, the cycling community and everyone who wants to make Austin a better place, thank you for your generous support of our social ride series pilot. In 7 days, you helped us smash our goal of $5000 with a final amount of $5,808 raised on Kickstarter. Keith Byrd and I are [...]

What started as a Twin Cities challenge has now gone global, and with our perfect spring weather, Austin needs to step up to the 30 Days of Biking challenge. Cyclist Patrick Stephenson of St. Paul and Zachariah Schaap of Minneapolis are using Twitter to encourage everyone to get out on their bike every day this [...]

Things have quieted down a bit for the Easter holiday weekend, but it’s only a temporary respite before the onslaught of charity rides, social rides and other cool bike community events. Take a breather if you must but get out your bike while the weather is soooo good! Here’s a quick run down of recommended [...]