New Austin on Two Wheels series chronicling the cyclocross season coming soon With no end of temps in the 100s, I find great hope in the announcement of 2011 Austin area cyclocross race calendar. Like the arrival of college football, cyclocross season for me indicates cooler temperatures will return and our long, sweltering nightmare will [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2011’
Bikesharing saves lives?
As Austin considers a public bike share program, we have looked at success stories like Washington DC, London, and Sevilla. The focus of the coverage to date has been on how popular the programs are, how they are changing the nature of city streetscapes and how people view the bicycle. There has been precious little [...]
Friday Picture Fun: Star Wars and bikes
As a child of Generation X, I loved Star Wars as a kid. Actually, love is probably not strong enough of a word. Not only did I go see all three of the original trilogy in the movie theaters about a dozen times, I was the pride of the block with toys of the Milleinimununum [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 8/4- 8/10/11
This summer is already in the top 5 for hottest on record and and like Mark Cavendish hunting for Tour de France sprint victories looks poised to be the hottest record by the end of August. Does that get us down? Naw, there are a ton of events to commiserate celebrate what is historically the [...]
More Bikeshare Success: DC’s Capital Bikeshare
Yesterday, we shared an update on the public bikeshare program the City of Austin is working to bring to town in the next few years. There are several successful, well used programs in the U.S. including this brilliant Streetfilms piece on Washington, DC’s Capital Bikeshare. The Phenomenal Success of Capital Bikeshare from Streetfilms on Vimeo. [...]
New bicycle infrastructure connects Riverside to Oltorf on South Congress
When returning from the Bike Share briefing at the Downtown Austin Alliance on Monday, I had a chance to try out the newly installed bike lanes on South Congress just south of the river. Before this project was done where there was any bicycle infrastructure at all on this section of South Congress, it was [...]
Austin Bike Share Update: City moving closer to final plan
In an update at yesterday’s Downtown Austin Alliance Mobility and Transportation Committee, Austin Bicycle/Pedestrian Project Coordinator Nadia Barrera laid out the City of Austin’s current plan for bringing a bicycle sharing system to Austin by spring 2013. The short term bike rental service similar to systems in San Antonio and Minneapolis would allow one way [...]
From the Department of Awesome: Lithuanian mayor crushs car parked in bike lane
This story just off the wire actually goes beyond awesome. Arturas Zuokas, the Mayor of the Lithuanian town of Vilnius, has a message for inconsiderate motorist who park in bike lanes: park elsewhere or see your car become the victim of a monster truck show. Zuokas took to an armored troop carrier and crushed a [...]
First look at the Bodhi Electric Bicycle
Last week, we announced Bodhi Electric Bicycles as the newest site sponsor of Austin on Two Wheels. On Saturday, they had a demo day at their local retailer, Alien Scooters, and I stopped by to take a look at their new bikes. I met the co-founder and President of this Ft. Worth based company, Paul [...]
Lend Your Legs- Meals on Two Wheels Addition finally begins this Tuesday
Back in June, we let you know about a new community project of Social Cycling Austin, Lend Your Legs- Meals on Two Wheels Addition. The group is partnering with the local Meals on Two Wheels food bank to deliver food to those in need via bike. The project got delayed but is now back on [...]
