Posts under ‘Austin Bicycle Industry’

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 [...]

The Dario Pegoretti movie D’Acciaio (Of Steel) by Ben Ingham is screened today only for free on the Rapha website. An interesting movie about an iconic, if opinionated, framebuilder in the Old World mold.

Yesterday, I posted about the Texas Custom Bicycle Show coming to Austin October 16-17. The show is a lot of fun and a chance to see some well made, unique bikes built right here in Texas. The show is free and the product of a lot of hard work by the builders. To that end, [...]

UPDATE: The show is also looking for volunteers if you want to help with this show that is free to the public. Also in addition to the website, the show has a blog which will include profiles of the builders and you can follow the show on Facebook and Twitter. ———— Mark your calendar! Now [...]

Austin on Two Wheels site sponsor Bicycle Sport Shop has opened a 3rd location this month at 9900 West Parmer Lane. To celebrate the new store opening, there will be a variety of events and giveaways in the second half of July: Join us for 2 weekends of events as we celebrate the Grand Opening [...]

The tri shop market for Austin just got a little smaller. Today, the owners of VO2 Triathlon and Cycle announced that they are closing their store immediately. We have in hands the hard task that is to announce that VO2 triathlon & cycles has closed doors on June 22, 2010. For the past 18 months [...]

This comes via the Jack & Adam’s blog who are looking for a volunteer intern to help run their Bicycle RE-Cycle Project, a drop off program that seeks to prevent old tubes and bike parts from filling up our landfills. It’s not a paid position but you do get shop discounts and free entry into [...]

Does advocacy get new people on bikes and if not, what will? May is Bike Month, and in addition to all the special rides and bike shop discounts, our local, statewide, and national bicycle advocacy groups are front and center highlighting the need for good infrastructure and encouraging us to get on bikes. Locally, this [...]

After the tragic accident involving Mariel Mentink on New Year’s Eve, Mellow Johnny’s Eileen Schaubert was inspired to put more helmets on riders and has put together Austin’s first city wide bike shop special on helmets for Bike Month, the entire month of May. Here’s the deal – shops are offering a 20% discount on [...]

Freewheeling Bicycles open Sunday one time only for special sale Austin on Two Wheels would like to welcome our newest site sponsor, Freewheeling Bicycles. Freewheeling is having a special sale this weekend and will be open on Sunday, 1-5 PM, a rarity for a shop that normally let’s staff enjoy the day of rest. They [...]