Posts Tagged ‘Austin Cycling Association’

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just received via the Austin Cycling Association list: The Ride2Recovery riders are coming through Austin today and departing tomorrow on their way to Dallas/Ft Worth. Join us to cheer these US veterans on and ride with them as they reach Lake Austin Blvd and Exposition Road. See Schedule below. (Times are approximate.) Tuesday, March 31, [...]

Candidates present: Chris Riley, Perla Cavazos Opening statements: Cavazos – I’m a triathlete. Hope to do the MS150 someday. Very supportive of multimodal transportation options and cycling. We need to do a better job of improving our city streets and adding bicycle lanes. Would also like to see better signage and education about sharing the [...]

Very rough notes taken as fast as I could, sorry about any typos, but wanted to get this out as fast as possible. – Marcus Bethel Hall, St. David’s Episcopal Church, 7th and San Jacinto. 6pm-9pm Candidates present – Brewster McCracken, Lee Leffingwell, David Buttross, Josiah Ingalls Big crowd. Easily over 100. This is an [...]

Reprinted from a League of Bicycling Voters email. This is your chance to tell your next city council members that you want safe cycling to be a priority, and find out where they stand on our issues. Want to make an impression? The best way to advance safer and more accessible bicycling in Austin is [...]

Thanks to Bicycle Sport Shop‘s Leslie Luciano for sending over this revised, texas-focused release about the 2009 National Bike Summit! Record Number Attended 2009 Bike Summit! In total, 580 registrants from 47 states and four countries (Canada, Denmark, Czech Republic and the USA) visited more than 350 Congressional offices on Thursday, March 12. More than [...]

Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo spoke and answered questions before a large audience at the Austin Cycling Association meeting last night. Before we talk about the rest, let’s get the Austin Police Chief’s “big faux pas”  out of the way: In the middle of a really long answer about sharing the road, APD Chief [...]

We are up one event over last week for a total of 85 cycling events this week in the Austin area. Our comprehensive cycling and bike culture event calendar has slowed in growth a bit the last week, but I prefer to think we are taking a breather before spring comes roaring in. As always, [...]