Posts under ‘Cycling with Kids’

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 [...]

Riding your bike is like being in a parade, a daily parade if you commute with your bicycle. I feel like the center of attention with all eyes on me when I am the sole bicycle with 3 cars at a all-way stop sign. Should I Miss America wave or throw some candy? Instead I [...]

When I get on a cargo bike with my children, I think about what effect bicycle transport will have on their future. Will they break the American wealth draining cycle of car ownership? Will they be better prepared for peak oil? I don’t know, but I do know riding with them is a supremely more [...]

Very shortly after I started this site, I got my first cargo bike, an Xtracycle Free Radical. At the time, we had a trailer for our kids that they were out growing, and the kit which converts most bikes to long tails with room for 1 adult or 2-3 kids seemed like a good idea. [...]

Editor Note: Please welcome new Austin on Two Wheels writer Katie Jo Dixon who will be sharing her experiences in Austin on two wheels with us over the coming months. Some of you may remember Katie Jo’s earlier posts on picking up baby chicks on a cargo bike and theater by bike as part of [...]

This morning I attended an exciting meeting at my children’s elementary school put on by the City of Austin’s Safe Routes to School program. We have been chosen as one of 6 campuses to receive support from the program designed to encourage parents to skip being a juvenile’s chauffeur and let kids do what they [...]

Today is the first day back at school for many Austin kids, who mostly pile into a car and cue up at the drop off drive at the front of the school house. Where walking and biking were once the norm, it is estimated that only 12 percent of children now do so. Given our [...]

Austin’s Yellow Bike Project does a lot of good stuff, but one of its best public service is the release of children’s bicycles to kids who can’t afford two wheels. After a very successful bike release earlier this year, YBP has found their kids bike stock extremely low. If your child has out grown their [...]

For those who did not bike to work today (or any other day), let 4 year-old Max Boyd inspire you.

Editor Note: This is our fifth winning entry in our March- May My Ride Writing Contest, Austin mom on two wheels Katie Jo Dixon. We want an autobiographical story about your experience riding a bike in Austin where previously you might have done so by car. Each week, Austin on Two Wheels will select a [...]