Posts Tagged ‘Austin Cycling Association’

The Austin Cycling Association will be holding condensed, cycling safety class Thursday night at the Wells Branch Community Library in far north Austin. It will be a one hour class based on the League of American Bicyclists Traffic 101 program ACA regularly hosts, but this one is free. The program will focus primarily on safety [...]

This week’s pretty quiet with the holiday weekend coming up, but there are still plenty of great rides on our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. And if you get too hot, there’s always the Tour day France to watch on Versus. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we [...]

Biking to work on Friday and want to get some little reward for your efforts, spend a little time with your fellow cyclists and generally get in on the good vibes from Bike Month? Obviously you need to come to one of the Bike To Work Day breakfast stations on Friday!
From 7am-9am on Friday, May [...]

These photos from the 2009 Armadillo Hill Country Classic are not mine, but were posted to the Austin Cycling Association mailing list yesterday. If you like them, thank the publisher on Flickr, GadgetAdam. These look great!

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Bike Month begins on Friday, and there are a TON of events, rides, and races going on. We’ve got not one, but two Cross Club races and two FREE alleycat races this weekend as well, plus movies, classes, and Austin Bike Zoo doing its awesomeness with on bike version of Alice in Wonderland.
Here’s a quick [...]

The ACA is continually getting great events together that serve elementary school students across central Texas, providing helmets and safe riding instruction along with holding special events like “bike rodeos.”
One thing they really need for all these events? You. Help them out by volunteering at one of the upcoming events below:
To volunteer contact Laura King [...]

Austin Cycling Association Celebrates the 15th Annual
Armadillo Hill Country Classic
Proceeds allow ACA to provide free helmets for children, along with helmet fittings and safety training classes
Austin Cycling Association (ACA), a nonprofit organization that serves the interests of Central Texas cyclists, invites bike riders to join them in the 15th annual Armadillo Hill Country Classic.
The Armadillo [...]

The Austin Cycling Association meets at 7pm tonight at the LCRA Redbud Center, 3601 Lake Austin Boulevard (it’s on the south side of the road, not the north side like the other main LCRA buildings:  click for a map)
Tonight’s topic is camping by bicycle. From their website description:
If you’ve ever dreamed about doing a self-contained [...]

I’m not much of a mountain biker, but I gather from the calendar that April is when things start to really happen in MTB racing and riding. The Austin Ridge Riders are having their big Single Track Stampede and the Austin Flyers have just posted an updated club ride schedule for mountain bike rides including [...]

Russell Pickavance, Bike Month Coordinator for the Austin Cycling Association (and employee at The Peddler, huge supporter of Yellow Bike and an all around great guy) sent us this request for submissions for the 2009 Bike Month Guide he’s helping put together.
Here’s what he needs:
Little poems, cartoons, small stories about why you love your bike, [...]