Posts from ‘May, 2011’

Summary: With tons of full color, detailed photos and information on a wide variety of components, Complete Bike Maintenance by Fred Mislon makes a good repair and maintenance manual for both the novice looking to learn to wrench and the seasoned hand who needs a refresher on less common parts. Rating: 4/5 Price: $21.99 This [...]

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 [...]

Editor Note: This is our thirteenth and final winning entry in our March- May My Ride Writing Contest, Katie Jo Dixon, also our week five winner.  We were asking for an autobiographical story about your experience riding a bike in Austin where previously you might have done so by car. Each week, Austin on Two [...]

Social Cycling Austin is not just about riding your bike to drink beer. The leadership have taken upon themselves to give back to the community most recently with their Lend Your Legs rides. The Monday night rides through June 20 takes kids from the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired along on tandem [...]

The City of Austin is considering funding a public bikeshare program in the near future as part of the goals of the Master Bicycle Plan. Bikesharing, short term bike rentals with self check kiosks spread throughout the city or certain neighborhoods, has been credited with some pretty impressive results in other cities. BCycle, a national, [...]

For those who did not bike to work today (or any other day), let 4 year-old Max Boyd inspire you.

So, how did you ride go? Any especially good station stops? Let us know. If you missed out on the stops this morning or just want to get more freebie, there are still afternoon stops and these events: Chipolte Bike to Work Day Giveaway Chipolte Downtown, 8th & Congress From 11 AM – 6 PM [...]

Friday is Bike to Work Day with tons of locations providing free food both to and from work! And if racing is more your style, this weekend offers a triathlon, road race, and adventure race as well as the Real Ale Ride for those who just want to ride long, not race. Finally, for the [...]

Editor Note: This is our twelfth winning entry in our March- May My Ride Writing Contest, a multi-week winner Minor Baker. We only have one more chance to win. We want an autobiographical story about your experience riding a bike in Austin where previously you might have done so by car. Each week, Austin on [...]

This spring, the fine folks at Wolverine Farm Publishing sent us a copy of the recent Boneshaker: A Bicycle Almanac (plus a few more that were given out as prizes to lucky recipients on our Urban Living Rides.) The pocket field manual size booklet is published twice a year and contains original bicycle related stories, [...]