Posts from ‘September, 2010’

Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll [...]

The Austin Cycling Association’s October meeting on Monday will be an annual hosting of TXDOT to get feedback on how they can improve facilities for cyclists. The last couple years have been pretty testy seeing as TXDOT has dutifully gotten our feedback and then routinely ignored it in the building and upgrading of state roads. [...]

Cycling blogger Darryl Kotek from LovingTheBike.com is now an Austin resident. To kickoff his move to our fine city, Darryl is hosting a Cycling and Social Media Tweetup at Waterloo Ice House Bee Cave (at 71 & Bee Cave Road.) Here are the details: Your favorite cycling blogger Darryl Kotek of LovingTheBike.com has just arrived [...]

As a cargo bike aficionado, I’m living in some pretty good days with everyone from Trek to Puma putting out car-replacing offerings. Interbike, the bike industry’s annual trade show, is this week and with it the roll out of some new products. First, cargo bike maker Madsen has come out with a new and improved [...]

Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll [...]

This last week, the Austin Chronicle published a story about a recent sharp uptick in citations to pedicabbers downtown for various seemingly minor infractions such as cuing up outside of the “designated areas.” Since regulations on pedicabs have come along in an organic fashion and can be wildly different from each company depending on how [...]

This just in from the Dirt Derby: Unfortunately, we have to cancel tonight’s races at the Bicycle Sport Shop Dirt Derby. The rains coupled with the wear and tear on the track from motocross races over the weekend, and the possibility of more rains tonight, have made things unrideable. So as consolation, we’ll be doing [...]

It has been observed that if we really want to accelerate transportation cycling into mainstream culture, a focus on the needs of women is needed. Cycling in America is male dominated with a report 2:1 or more ratio of men to women choosing two wheels. In addition to expanding the pie, women have a larger [...]

Editor Note: This Monday, City staff had a planning meeting to discuss implementation of the adopted plan for a downtown bicycle boulevard. Many in the cycling community missed this important meeting (including myself unfortunately), but Bicycle Advisory Council and LOBV board member Eileen Schaubert was there and made this report. Monday night’s Bike Boulevard meeting [...]

Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll [...]