Posts under ‘Cycling in the Media’

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 [...]

Carlton Reid of the bike industry site BikeBiz mentioned earlier today on Twitter that today is pro cycling sportscaster Phil Liggett’s birthday. If Wikipedia is to be believe, the other half of the commentating Commonwealth duo of Phil and Paul who narrate the Verus coverage of cycling is 67 years old today.
To celebrate Phil’s contribution [...]

If you’ve been around downtown in the evenings or at most major events in this town, you know how awesome pedicabs are. The Discovery Channels’ Planet Green recently showed how well a pedicab does against a motorized taxi in Manhattan.

Closer to home, the Austin Pedicab Alliance recently posted a documentary about our local pedicab drivers [...]

On Christmas Eve, I received an e-mail from Carl Jameson, the Portland based film maker, who is currently in Austin for the holidays. Jameson has put together a screening of his movie The Bicyclists this Sunday, December 27 at 6 PM at Cafe Mundi, 1704 East 5th St.

The Bicyclists is a feature length version of [...]

In advance of the Climate Control Conference earlier this month, the City of Copenhagen lit their city Christmas tree with a pedal power from local cyclists.

Meant to highlight how to continue traditions in an environmentally sustainable way, the tree lighting system unfortunately only worked while people were actively pedaling. Seems like they could have had [...]

Continuing our near daily mention of Copenhagen, today’s video comes via Copenhagen Cycle Chic. Not only is this woman nattily dressed, this ad for Charge Bikes’ Lazy Susan brand shows us the real freedom and joy of riding.

Charge Bikes_Lazy Susan from Charge Bikes on Vimeo.

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Inspiration for the Copenhagenization the rest of the world
With the Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen remains very much in the news especially on the bike front. As a city with a dominate car culture until the 1970s, Copenhagen pulled back from the gasoline induced sprawl most of the Western world embraced and now has 37% of [...]

With all the discussions, designing, and arguments over bicycle boulevards, it can be hard to see the forest from the trees. The details can often trip us up in our overall goal: to make the bicycle a substantial part of our transportation mix and a natural choice for a growing number of citizens.
Since the Climate [...]

Yesterday, NPR ran a story on cargo bikes as a new market in the U.S. They brought up the concept of these bikes a green replacement for the minivan and their practicality among business users looking to reduce fleet fuel costs. The report included interviews with Bakfiets supplier Clever Cycles in Portland as well as [...]

This recent local broadcast of Fox 7 News gives a quick overview of biking to work with resources from the City of Austin, Bicycle Sport Shop and Mellow Johnny’s. It’s a nice cursory look at biking as an option but does spend quite a bit of time focusing on showers. Also mentioned is the free [...]