If you head out on a weekend club ride, you might not think cycling and style go together, but as sites like Copenhagen Cycle Chic point out you don’t have to suit up just to get on a bike. In fact, learning to jump on a bike in street clothes is a habit every cyclist [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2010’
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 5/27- 6/2/10
With the Memorial Day weekend upon us, the event calendar is a little light with special events. That doesn’t mean there is not a lot of opportunities to ride your bike. In addition to the monthly Critical Mass, Frankenbike, and Full Moon Cruise, the Thursday Night Social Ride is doing a fundraising ride tonight to [...]
New A2W Site Sponsor: Austin CarShare
Austin on Two Wheels is pleased to announce Austin CarShare as our latest site sponsor. If you read this site much, you know I’m not much of a fan of automotive culture and its negative effects on our society. So why Austin CarShare? Well, aside from the fact that I founded this organization and it’s [...]
A2W produces second social ride series for summer
In a followup to our popular Spring Urban Living Rides, Keith Byrd and I have teamed up again to put together a new five ride series for summer. The Discover the City on Two Wheels Summer Social Ride Series includes variations on some of the spring rides with new stops as well as some new [...]
Friday Film Fun: Something Golden by LCMDF
Today’s film is a music video of “Something Golden”, a new ditty from the Helsinki band Le Corps Mince de Françoise, or LCMDF for those in the know. In addition to being a catchy little tune, the girl band spends most of the video riding the streets of their city until dawn. Bikes are involved [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 5/20- 5/26/10
Friday is Bike to Work Day and the bike community is pulling out all the stops to keep you well fed on your ride to work. In addition, the Real Ale Ride is on Saturday, and Fast Folks, our only fixed gear specific shop, is celebrating a year in business this weekend. Here’s a quick [...]
Looking at the value and ROI of bicycle advocacy
Does advocacy get new people on bikes and if not, what will? May is Bike Month, and in addition to all the special rides and bike shop discounts, our local, statewide, and national bicycle advocacy groups are front and center highlighting the need for good infrastructure and encouraging us to get on bikes. Locally, this [...]
A chance to remember fallen cyclists at the Ride of Silence tonight
Most of the rides and events in Bike Month are festive, but there is one which is a little more somber and rightly so. The Ride of Silence is the world wide ride in honor and in memory of fellow cyclists that have been injured or killed while cycling on public roadways. Let’s hope we [...]
Thoughts on Bike to Work Week
This week is Bike to Work Week, and it will culminate on this Friday with Bike to Work Day which will include breakfast stations all over Austin from 7- 9 AM at these locations: AJ’s Cyclery, 10019 W. Parmer Lane. Banister Lane at Casey Street. Bicycle Sport Shop, 517 S. Lamar Blvd. BikeTexas, 1902 E. [...]
Bike Art on 2nd show running now until May 31
For Bike Month, the Real Gallery on 2nd Street (450 W. 2nd St) will be hosting a “Bike Art on 2nd” show from now until May 31. The show features the Creative Arts Society’s Traveling Exhibit with artists who interpret the subject of bicycles in multi-medium artworks. In addition, there will be an Artist Reception [...]
