Posts Tagged ‘austin’

From our events calendar: Give your old bike a new life by donating it to the Austin Yellow Bike Project during Bike Month! REI Austin Downtown (6th and Lamar) will host a bike drive on Sunday, May 3rd, 2009, for the Austin Yellow Bike Project. The donated bikes will be fixed up by Yellow Bike [...]

I’ll have a full writeup later today but I had to get over to an early morning event at Mellow Johnny’s. For now, here’s a slideshow of Friday’s Political Pedal and Cyclist Happy Hour. I was very glad to see our Police Chief Art Acevedo there.

Don’t forget: Bike Month officially kicks off at Austin City Hall, 11:30ish today. Then this afternoon around 4:50pm gather at City Hall again for the 13th annual Political Pedal and happy hour! Keep up with all the Bike Month events on our event calendar and the Austin Cycling Association Bike Month calendar.

This was passed along by the fabulous Eileen at Mellow Johnny’s. Looks like they’re trying to start a series of movies over at the store. I love these kinds of events that bring people in the bike community together for events that don’t necessarily include getting drunk or racing in spandex (or yelling at elected [...]

From the Fort Myers, Florida News-Press comes this story on the state of the bicycle industry. Interestingly, the story there focuses more on bicycles being used for cheap recreation and not transport, although it just may be the location. I’ve heard that commuter sales are still going well in Austin too and that lots of [...]

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 [...]

During the East Austin Studio Tour last November I was standing outside some loft condos on sixth street waiting for my wife to get out of a studio and I snapped this shot of some bikes parked just outside: I had nothing in particular in mind when I shot it (except maybe how glad I [...]

For everyone interested in reading more on the James Clayton bike theft saga, Rob D’Amico of the League of Bicycling Voters has an in-depth story on Clayton’s background, his operations and a lot more in this week’s Austin Chronicle. Highly recommended!

Received this email from Nadia Barrera at the City of Austin Bicycle and Pedestrian Program. They’re looking to fill one full member and two alternate member positions for the Bicycle Advisory Council. Here’s the info: The Bicycle Advisory Council (BAC) is a group of citizens who represent all aspects of the cycling community. They meet [...]

BSS is really giving me a lot of news fodder lately. Their latest effort is launching their own blog for the shop, which is currently focusing on Austin Commuter Challenge news, naturally. Here’s the link: bicyclesportshop.wordpress.com.