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In between holiday parties, we hope you are getting a chance to ride your bike. To help you with that, here is our last pre-holiday round up of recommended cycling events. 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 [...]

December is upon us which means the Urban Farm Bicycle Tour and Holiday Sing-Along & Downtown Roll are on deck for Saturday! 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 [...]

This Saturday, Bicycle Sport Shop and Edible Austin will be giving you a chance to sample local food, experience urban farming, and support a good cause. 4th Annual Urban Farm Bicycle Tour will offer a self guided tour of farmers markets, urban farms and community gardens all to benefit the Sustainable Food Center and Urban [...]

No weekly recommended events post this week… most of the regular events are not happening due to the holiday weekend and there is not much else happening. See our our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events to catch a group ride if you are needing to pedal off the mega calories. There are a few [...]

The week before Thanksgiving has a lot to offer if you want to go off road. The Dirty Duathlon and Natural Bridge Caverns Duathlon make you do some running before you hit the trail while Bicycle Sport Shop continues its beginner friendly ride series with their No Turkeys Allowed Ride on Sunday. Of course, the [...]

Program to help children in need looking for volunteers For over a decade, Mix 94.7 DJs JB & Sandy’s has been bringing holiday cheer to local children with their Bikes for Kids giveaway. To date, the program has given away 10,000 Trek bicycles to families in need throughout the central Texas community. This year, the [...]

The cycling scene is starting to slow down towards its winter slumber… if you can call 60 degrees and sunny winter! Still, there are some great end of season tours on Saturday and the return of the “Dude Looks Like A Lady Ride” on Sunday. Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the [...]

The Austin weather has been this side of gorgeous and even with a cold front does not look to be letting up. If you are not motivated to ride now, you never will! Cyclocross racing with grass has finally appeared with two races this weekend in Manor plus the annual massively awesome Mellow Swap on [...]

This is the first of periodic posts from Tom Wald, Executive Director of the League of Bicycling Voters. The CAMPO Policy Board meetings, like most public meetings, charge no admission and provide little overt entertainment to the uninitiated. I’m not currently in a position to take a gonzo journalism approach to reporting from such meetings, [...]

This is the second part of Rob D’Amico’s series looking at Tour Das Hugel and his attempt to do the 2011 ride. See here for Part I.  He also is hosting a fundraiser that lets you donate a set amount for each mile he completes, with all proceeds going to local bike nonprofits. About Me: [...]