Posts from ‘February, 2012’

Loyal readers of Austin bike blogger Jason Abels can now rejoice. The popular ATXBS.com has been down for the last month and many feared it might be gone for good. Luckily, it was just a technical snafu that now been fixed: Thanks to the miraculous healing touch of the resident machine god Ed, ATXBS is [...]

The fine balance between being a post-feminism mother of two and and slut mom on bicycle with kids on board. Soccer mom tennis shoe on one foot, and a 4 inch high heel on the other. A cargo bike to haul groceries and children atop and a sleek fix geared bicycle to race through stop [...]

The weather is great and there’s lots to do on 2 wheels this weekend! Mellow Johnny’s is sponsoring a whole slew of rides and events to encourage more minorities to ride with their Growing the Movement conference. If art is your thing, check out ARTCrank on Friday and the art benefit for injured cyclist Bethany [...]

I don’t know when I first heard about ARTCRANK, but I expect it was some combination of friends in the Minnesota artist/bike communities and Twitter (those “people you should follow” suggestions may actually work).  I have spent the last couple of years following the Flickr feed and ogling all of the cool posters from other [...]

Local ABC affiliate KVUE reported 2 stories yesterday that address the bane of cyclists existence: getting hit by a car and bike theft. These are not world changing stories but it’s good to know things work out sometimes. Witnesses catch hit and run driver after cyclist injured Arrest made after UT police use bait bike [...]

Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll add your event on and possibly add it to the weekly round up. Thursday, February 16 [...]

Austin is finally jumping on the ciclovía bandwagon with the proposed first one dubbed Viva! Streets scheduled for this May. The event will close East 6th Street to automobile traffic and reclaim city streets as public space for people. Tonight is an information session on the event. encourage recreation for active, healthy lifestyles.  Austinites will [...]

There is a special set of circumstances that accompanies biking with children in tow. The streets seem kinder, the traffic slower, and the world smiles with us. The light heartedness of childhood is contagious. Remember the first time you took your bicycle out with out your parents? I do. I was 5 years old. My [...]

Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll add your event on and possibly add it to the weekly round up. Thursday, February 9 [...]

I can hear the characteristic ding-ding of the train bell announcing its approach.The sound of the bell has become white noise as it rolls through my neighborhood a couple dozen times a day. This morning it’s a siren in my head. I am less than a half mile away and I can see the dual [...]