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On Saturday, the site Tasty Touring organized the Tasty Up Trailer Tour, a self paced tour of many of the trailer eateries that have become so popular in Austin as of late. Biking was encouraged in these tours, but because the geographic distance covered between all points, the tour organizers conceded that those wanting to [...]

Social Cycling ATX is pulling out all the stops to help Mariel Mentink, a cyclist put in ICU by a hit and run driver early on New Year’s Day. They are organizing a Friday night version of their social ride with the final stop being a benefit for Mariel’s medical fund.
The Benefit Ride and Party [...]

This week is a great one for social riding in Austin. In addition to Tasty Touring’s Trailer Tour on Saturday, Social Cycling ATX has really stepped up with not only their regular Thursday Night Ride but volunteering at a Kids Bike Rodeo and ride to the Benefit Party for Mariel Mentink on Friday.
Here’s a quick [...]

If you haven’t been able to find just the right hub, gruppo, or handlebar while pursuing the monthly Frankenbike or last fall’s Mellow Swap, you might want to make a trip up I-35 this weekend to the Great Southwest Bike Swap.
In its third year, this is a one day event where bicycle shops, frame builders [...]

After a last minute cancellation last week, Daniel Sato sent out an e-mail confirming this week’s ride is on tonight. With rain projected through the evening, you might want to slap on some fenders if you can.
Cutting it close with the short notice this week, but with rain in the forecast, we have a shot [...]

My apologies for getting the weekly event round up out late this week, but our full calendar of events needed some major updating and now has all the upcoming ACA rides, Traffic 101 classes and mini clinics and TXBRA road races as well as most of the charity rides on the calendar for this spring. [...]

Daniel Sato, the organizer of the Wednesday Night Road Ride, just sent out this e-mail indicating there will be no ride tonight:
Sorry guys, but I’m way too busy to lead a ride tonight! Heck, I’ve been way too busy to even realize I was supposed to until just now! Sorry for the late notice. Hope [...]

If you’ve ever wanted to brush up on your bike safety but cannot swing the time for the full Traffic 101 classes offered by the Austin Cycling Association, here’s your chance to pick and choose the portions you need help with in bit sized amounts. ACA will be offering Traffic Skills 101 Mini Clinics starting [...]

The Austin Texas Bike Polo Social Club is celebrating their one year anniversary this weekend with a two day, three match weekend of bike polo. While wide spread bike polo is a relatively new part of current bike culture, it actually is a sport that is 100 years old and was very popular in the [...]

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 [...]