Posts Tagged ‘austin’

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 [...]

Yesterday at Eastwoods Park I ran into something I haven’t seen EVER before while out shooting photos for our story on bike polo: somebody else was doing it too! I had to stop and talk with my fellow photographer and found out he was Daniel Liebowitz from local cycling blog Thy Neighbor’s Bike. What a [...]

I finally got a chance to go see hard court bike polo this weekend! Week after week Elliott and I have been putting this on our list of “must see” cycling events around town but this is the first time it has worked out. Riding up to Eastwoods Park in the worst headwind since Thursday [...]

The seller seems to be in Dallas, but if you just gotta get your own personal pedicab to give all your friends rides in, fork over $700 and this baby could be yours! Not every day you see a pedicab for sale hiding amongst all the ads for “vintage” Huffys. Is this thing up to [...]

It’s Bicycle Sport Shop’s time for a big sale this weekend. They advertise every bike will be on sale, and looks like pretty decent discounts on accessories and clothing.

On Sunday, I competed in the what is hoped to be the 1st annual Enchanted Rock Extreme Duathlon put on by San Antonio based Redemption Race Productions. The 4 mile run/16 mile bike/2 mile run race was advertised as a challenging course with a finish on the top of Enchanted Rock. Their race motto was “No [...]

OK, this is one… huge… slideshow. I took photos at the Enchanted Rock Extreme Duathlon on Sunday and culled my 450 photographs down to 300, which you see here. This should feature every single participant in the cycling portion of the event. Elliott will provide his thoughts on the event soon. See yourself in one [...]

Austin Commuter Challenge from David Tillman on Vimeo. Thanks to the guys at Bicycle Sport Shop for sending over this video for the Austin Commuter Challenge.

Bike messengers speeding across town to deliver a message… of love? That’s Jaclyn Pryor’s “pink: a (love) courier service,” an art project that started in Austin in 2006, has traveled since then to Portland, Oregon and Chicago and is now coming back to Austin next month. As Jaclyn describes the project: PINK is both a [...]

Bikes are everywhere at SXSW. Here’s a small gallery of bikes seen and a look at just how many were parked around the convention center. Racks? totally full. In one photo above, you can see that all the stair railings on the west side of the building have been put to work too. By the [...]