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Here’s is the week that was in cycling via the abridged version of Austin on Two Wheel’s Twitter feed.
This gives those not on Twitter or who missed our Tweets a chance to check out interesting bike related articles, photos, and videos from the week that might not warrant a full post on our site. If [...]

SXSW is in full swing, and Bicycle Sport Shop is doing its part to encourage people to participate in the fest on two wheels. They are doing a bike valet service this week at the following times and are needing volunteer help:
Thursday 4pm – 7pm
2 people
Thursday 7pm – 10:30pm
3 people
Saturday 2pm – 6pm
3 people
Saturday 6pm [...]

Commuter and utility bike company Civia has issued a voluntary recall of the carbon fork equipped on all their Hyland bikes.
A few weeks ago we became aware that our carbon fork does not meet our expectation for product safety.  We have seen a couple forks begin to crack around the steerer tube and one had [...]

Though some may of thought there was a bike summit going on here in Austin, the tenth annual National Bike Summit was held this last weekend in DC. Here’s an overview from StreetsFilm.

Also, if you are attending SXSW Interactive, there will be a session today at 11 AM called Change the World, Lives, with Bikes [...]

On Saturday, SXSW was in full swing, and Seattle based BikeHugger hosted their fourth SXSW Mobile Social. This year’s was huge with over 1000 two wheelers, but luckily BikeHugger brought in the pros at SocialCyclingATX who regularly handle 100s of cyclists on Austin’s streets without major conflict with cars.  Their able ride leaders shepherded us [...]

Today, Google launched a bike route mapping option to their popular Google maps resource, and Austin was included in the cities with this option in its initial roll out. Google has been on the forefront of adding alternative transportation to their mapping programs with walking and transit options available in the last few years in [...]

This week is the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC, a meeting of all the major bicycle advocacy organizations to push for more resources for bikes as a valid form of transportation. At the summit, the Bikes Belong Coalition has rolled out their new People for Bikes initiative with a goal of getting the signed [...]

Bike Month is less than 60 days away, and the newly created Austin Bike Poster Show is looking for artists to submit their take on promoting cycling and celebrating Austin bike culture. The show will select 25 posters to be part of the show which will run May 6- June 5 at Frame Corner at [...]

Back in December, we shared a video that mentioned how Copenhagen is so focused on making bikes the preferred form of transportation that the lights on one of their major roads is timed to allow cyclists 6 km of travel without having to stop. Rotterdam is installing an even higher tech version called Evergreen that [...]

The theft of this rather unique looking bike comes to us from the Austin Texas Bike Polo Social Club. Please keep a look out for this bike and report to the police and the owner below.

My polo bike was stolen last night. It was sitting out on avenue f and 46th st. For those of [...]