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There seems to be a real trend in recycling bike parts lately. In just the last week, we reported on Bike Furniture Design, a company that recycles bike parts into furniture, and let you know about an open call for your old bike gear cogs to be used to build iconic bike rack sculptures in [...]

Last night, Austin Chronicle reporter Dan Mottola had his bike stolen from his house near 38th and Guadalupe. Bummer! He sent out this e-mail asking everyone to keep an eye out for it. I was getting ready to go out and had the bike in my back yard for maybe 10 minutes while I took [...]

Late last week, the blog Bicycle Design released the finalists for its competition to design a new commuter bike for the masses. The winner of this contest will win a Cannondale Bad Boy Disc. It’s a pretty cool idea to see what the general cycling populace would come up with it they could design a [...]

As part of our Getting Started guide, I wrote an article on how to prevent the theft of your bike. While most of the article was about best practices in bike locking, I did mention the perfectly reasonable strategy of riding a cheap beat up bike and not worrying too much about locking. The downside [...]

I was just over checking out Joe Bike, a Portland distributor of inexpensive utility bikes. In addition to Yuba Mundo and Batavus bikes, Joe imports Flying Pigeon bikes from China and upgrades them with decent brakes and cranks. A Flying Pigeon that stops? What a radical idea! Anyway on his information page for the Flying [...]

Yesterday, Marcus wrote about the plan the City of Austin has to replace all the meters downtown with electronic kiosks and how this will eliminate thousands of de facto bike parking racks. This story was picked up today by Streetsblogs, a transportation network we are a part of, with this picture below where meter posts [...]

I just saw over at ATXBS that Eastside Pedal Pushers has finally moved to their new location at 1414 East 5th Street which is 5th and Onion. Cool photo gallery of the move here. As you may recall in the recent review we did of this bike shop that the landlord for their old location [...]

The folks across the pond are at it again with a new ad to raise awareness of cyclists on the road. This follows up a great PSA done last year involving guys playing basketball and someone in a bear costume. If we had PSAs like this is on American TV, we might actually get some [...]

Now is the time for New Years’ resolutions. Most of us are filled with hope for the new year and bite off more than we can chew in an attempt to be a better person. There is nothing wrong with being ambitious, but this cycle tends to end in failure. Rather than over-reaching, I would [...]

I just got back in town after visiting my in-laws in Lubbock, Texas. To say I have different world view from my in-laws and most of West Texas is putting it mildly. So it was with some amazement when I saw a Prius parked next to my brother-in-law’s house with a “Drill here, Drill now” bumper [...]