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Austin Bike Blog hopes you have a relaxing, enjoyable Christmas Day. To get you in the mood, enjoy this version of the Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies from the Nutcracker Suite performed entirely with bicycle parts.

Marcus is not here this week to do the News Roundup, so I though I’d share some holiday related posts from other blogs to add to our Christmas themed Dumbest Product of the Week and Christmas Tree hauling by bike.  PacificPedalling.com has a article about a pilot program UPS is doing right now to deliver [...]

I’m never one to do today what can be put off until tomorrow, especially when it comes to shopping for gifts during the holidays. Just look how late I waited to pick out a Christmas Tree. To help those who are like minded, I’ve put together a brief list of gifts I would think any [...]

As we mentioned earlier this week, any donations you make to World Bicycle Relief, a nonprofit providing bikes to African healthcare workers, will be matched with an equal donation from a private donor. To take advantage of this matching program, please make a donation by noon CST today at the DOUBLEbikeMATCH campaign website.

Get each dollar you give to World Bicycle Relief matched this Wednesday through Friday. As a person that celebrates Christmas as a holy day, I am constantly trying to avoid the commercialization of the season that is the antithesis of the teachings of the guy whose birthday we are celebrating. Still, I must always avoid [...]

Saw this at the Austin Pedicab Alliance blog. A documentary about pedicabers? Sounds pretty good to me. Check it out at their site, and look for more coming soon.

This is terrific! Read more about it here.

Today, I rode my bike for the first time in nearly a week. This absence was not by choice, I assure you. Last Wednesday and Thursday, I began suffering extreme headaches while riding of the sort that I’ve never experienced. At one point, it got so bad I had to dismount and walk the rest [...]

In the last year, transportation cycling has not only become an increasingly popular way for people to get from point A to B, it has also been embraced by part of the fashion industry with the growing velo couture segment.  At Interbike this year, utility cycling took the show by storm and Momentum magazine held [...]

Bike sharing has been around for a while with Yellow Bike as its most anarchist form and Paris as its most wildly successful incarnation (or at least most reported on.) But leave to the City of Montreal, home of North America’s longest running carshare program, to take the good idea one step further. Time has [...]