Posts Tagged ‘Austin Chronicle’

Sponsored by Austin on Two Wheels welcomes you to a second season of extraordinary social rides from March to May dedicated to the simple pleasure of riding a bicycle with friends. More rides, more giveaways! We have expanded to 16 rides this spring with an art ride and two family fun rides in addition to [...]

Just a quick reminder that voting in the Austin Chronicle‘s Best of Austin Reader Poll ends on Tuesday. There are tons of categories including best Bike Ride and Bike repair. Social Cycling ATX has been doing some serious lobbying for their Thursday Night Urban Ride for the best Bike Ride. In the category for best [...]

Austin on Two Wheels would really appreciate your vote for ‘Best Local Blog’ It’s that time of year again. The Austin Chronicle is asking its readers to submit ballot for their annual reader’s poll Best of Austin awards. You can vote online or by paper ballot printed in the Chron and the voting deadline is [...]

Ever since James Clayton was arrested last week on felony charges of high end bike theft and burglary in Austin and Arizona, the cycling community has been abuzz with discussion about the case, but on forums and blogs. Well, add one more source to learn more information about this serial liar and thief. Today, the [...]

In interesting e-mail from Austin cyclist Tom Wald is circulating about the Austin Police Department and their much reported crackdown on cyclists who break traffic laws. Tom wrote the police department a letter criticizing the program for singling out cyclists when motorists cause the vast majority of accidents that involve injury and deaths. Regardless of [...]

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 [...]

We’d like to congratulate Jason Abels over at the local bike blog ATXBS on winning a “Best of Austin” award from the Austin Chronicle this year. The Chron says: The clean-lined blog is a treasure trove of timely listings for stuff like Critical Mass rides, nighttime group cruises, underground alley-cat races, and pub crawls. Blogger [...]

If a columnist in the “Arts & Living” section at the Washington Post can make a great story like this one: Cycling Back Around: Four Wheels Good, Two Wheels Better. In the City, an Old-Fashioned Conveyance Returns In which David Montgomery writes amazing things like This is the summer of women on bicycles riding around [...]