Posts from ‘June, 2010’

Austin on Two Wheels is please to announce our latest site sponsor, Hope Market, which will also be the starting and ending point of our Eastside Home Tour this Sunday. The Sunday HOPE Farmers Market is a weekly community gathering space where local farmers, artisans, community groups, families, and urban consumers can find fresh foods, [...]

Summer is now in full swing, and there are plenty of opportunities to get on your bike including our next social ride, the Eastside Home Tour, as well as the rain date for our Taste of Downtown II Tour. If you want to make a real statement, the World Ride Nake Day ride for Austin [...]

Thanks to everyone to called and wrote to the Austin City Council to voice concern about the calendar games being played with the Downtown Bicycle Boulevard briefing and to ask for public comment on the staff recommendations. I just heard from Rob D’Amico, President of the League of Bicycling Voters, that Councilmembers Chris Riley and [...]

Sorry for the confusion, folks, but the Republic of Texas Bike Rally is this weekend, and our restaurant stops have highly recommended we not hold our Taste of Downtown II Tour rain date at the same time. So instead, we are pushing the ride to Wednesday, June 16. That was originally the night of the [...]

UPDATE: The rain date was changed to Wednesday, June 16. —— The weather man is not cooperating for the second ride in our social ride series, the Taste of Downtown II, originally scheduled for Wednesday, June 9. With a 60% chance of heavy thunderstorms tomorrow, we are moving the ride to our rain date of [...]

Colorado, like Texas, has two sides when it comes to treatment of cyclists. On the one hand, Boulder routinely gets awards as a bike friendly community, and in just the last week Denver’s bike-share program B-Cycle announced early successes with over 8000 users in the first 30 days. Then the casino town of Black Hawk [...]

UPDATE 2: Sorry for the confusion, folks, but the Republic of Texas Bike Rally is this weekend, and our restaurant stops have highly recommended we not hold our Taste of Downtown II Tour rain date at the same time. So instead, we are pushing the ride to Wednesday, June 16. That was originally the night [...]

UPDATE: An A2W reader sent me an e-mail asking me to clarify a point in this post. The decision to put items on the City Council agenda is done at a managerial level above the City of Austin Bicycle and Pedestrian Program. ——- In a move reminiscent of some of the slimier actions taken by [...]

Due to the course route of the Pride 5K happening at the same time, the start location of our Downtown Culture Cruise tomorrow has moved to Royal Blue Grocery at 4th & Nueces. Downtown Austin Blog & Austin on Two Wheels present: Downtown Culture Cruise Saturday, June 5 Meet up at 8:30 AM, Ride at [...]

With summer in full swing, enjoy this light little pop song, Cursis melodías or Tacky Tunes, from Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade as she pedals a tiny wheeled bike with sissy bars around various cosmopolitan locales.