Posts from ‘January, 2011’

If you’ve pursued our preview of 2011 Austin road races and either are a racing noob looking to try a race this spring or a seasoned pro wanting to sharpen your skills, check out this racing class on Saturday. Team Super Squadra, Austin’ local elite racing team, will be putting on a road racing tactics [...]

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 arctic front that hit yesterday seems to have taken its toll on a couple weekly social rides/events. The Leander / Cedar Park Social Cycling group just sent out a message that tonight’s regular social ride is canceled: Were gonna go ahead and cancel the ride for tonight. Pretty damn cold and I know a [...]

In part three of our preview of 2011 cycling events (following the preview of century rides and road racing), today we will preview Austin area triathlons for 2011. Now triathlons aren’t purely cycling (there’s some swimming and running in there), but they are near to my heart as they got me back on a bike [...]

Today marks the beginning of the biennial legislative session at the Capitol. While no doubt the looming $25 billion budget deficit will garner the lion’s share of attention, BikeTexas, the statewide bike advocacy group, will be doing it’s work to make the roads safer for cyclists. While the BikeTexas staff does a lot for our [...]

In a followup to last week’s preview of upcoming spring century and charity rides, today we take a look at the road racing coming our way in the Austin area. Unlike most of the country who waits until late spring or summer, much of the road racing calendar in Central Texas occurs in February and [...]

Now that the Yellow Bike Project has a permanent home on Webberville road, the bike distributing non-profit is seeking a way to spruce up the joint with an awesome sculpture to keep Austin weird. They are working to build a pedaling Tyrannosaurus Rex sculpture out of recycled bicycle parts in front of Yellow Bike HQ. [...]

UPDATED WITH RIDES WE MISSED ON 1ST POSTING! I’ve been a busy beaver this week updating our comprehensive calendar of Austin area rides, races, and bike events for the coming months. Today, I’ll give you a brief summary of all the upcoming century and charity rides so to aid you in planning training for the [...]

When looking over this week’s list of events, there are only a few events to awaken this winter slumber. Still, it’s sunny and pretty darn nice right now in Austin. Rediscover a regular club ride on our calendar or head out by your self for some soul riding. Just get out and ride before it [...]

I fear for the safety of Copenhagenize author Mikael Colville-Andersen who took great risks to bring us this shocking video. Many Bothans died to bring you this information. Pass it on and then watch your back!