This morning’s Weekend Edition of NPR had an interesting story about Worksman Cycles, America’s oldest bike maker still in business. Their focus is cargo, utility, and industrial bikes, and Worksman is one of the few non-custom American bike builders to still build their bikes in the U.S. out of their Queens, NY factory. The thing [...]
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Austin Bike Plan Petition In-depth: Plan Timelines
This article is part of a series Austin Bike Blog is doing on the recently launched Austin Bike Plan Petition. The City of Austin is preparing the first update to its Bicycle Plan in twelve years, and Austin Bike Plan Petition is an attempt to get the best plan possible. Over the next few weeks we [...]
The birth of the hand-built bike industry in Texas
Passion. That is the common word I heard from everyone I interviewed at the first Texas Custom Framebuilder’s Show in Fricso this last Saturday. It was obvious from all my discussion that no one gets into custom frame building for the money. It is an often hand to mouth affair that many must hold a [...]
Open Thread: What do you want to see more of on Austin Bike Blog?
In honor of election day (go vote already!), we are posting this as an open thread for your opinions. So far in our three months (yep it’s only been three months!) in existence, we have managed to cover many different areas of transportation cycling, from Xtracycles to Bakfiets to regular Dutch and Danish-style bicycles to [...]
Pictures from the Texas Custom Framebuilder’s Show
I made it up and back to Frisco (waaaay north Dallas) on Saturday to visit the Texas Custom Framebuilder’s show, the first show of fine makers of hand built bikes in the state of Texas. And I made it there and back without killing my children (always a positive.) Below is a slide show of [...]
To feedburner or not?
Totally un-bike-related, but I have changed our RSS feed to Feedburner. I know we have quite a few RSS subscribers, and I would like your feedback. Should we stay with Feedburner? Does that work for you? Or should we go with something else, or just go back to our normal locally served feed?
Transportation cycling rising in national consciousness
And little of this is coming from the bike industry Being the consumer driven society we are in America, television commercials often seem to be the cutting edge on the latest trends in the national conscience (One can argue they book end trends based on the number of super-duty pickup truck ads I still see.) [...]
Austin Bike Blog helps launch the Austin Bike Plan Petition
Austin Bike Plan Petition calls for clear time lines for implementation, better bike facilities The cycling community in Austin at a cross roads right now, and Marcus and I believe cyclists are in a unique position to ensure the City of Austin makes biking for transportation a priority and builds the necessary infrastructure to support [...]
Dumbest Product of the Week takes a one week break
Sorry folks, but due to time commitments for another exciting Austin Bike Blog project we’ll be announcing next week, I’m going to have to punt the latest Dumbest Product of the Week until next Friday. We’ll be back to ridicule silly consumerism next week, but in the meantime, in the fine tradition of a sitcom [...]
City of Austin Bicycle Plan (Street Smarts Task Force) Report, Part II
OTHER PARTS OF THIS REPORT: Part I can be found here. Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to be writing a section-by-section summary and info on the City of Austin Street Smarts Task Force 2008 final report, which is Austin’s updated bicycle plan. I will add comments and links to other related [...]
