Posts Tagged ‘Bicycle Sport Shop’

From the Texas Bicycle Coalition: The 2009 Safe Passing Bill will have a Texas House hearing by the Transportation Committee next Tuesday, March 24 at 8:00am. The room at the capitol is E2.014. The bill includes the “3-feet clearance” provision for cars passing cyclists. It has also been expanded to address right and left hooks [...]

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 [...]

Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll add your [...]

Bicycle Sport Shop and the Texas Bicycle Coalition are teaming up to help increase memberships and get cyclists more power! Leslie Luciano at Bicycle Sport Shop sent in this announcement about a pilot program between the shop and TBC. At Bicycle Sport Shop you can get a Texas Bicycle Coalition premium membership for half price, [...]

Both locations of Bicycle Sport Shop will be closed this Sunday, March 1 in memory of Carol Masterson, a BSS staffer who recently past. I didn’t know Carol, but I remember her always being helpful and saying funny things when I’d check out. A memorial service will be held from Sunday, from 10am-Noon at the Lady Bird Johnson [...]

Where can I buy a bike? What’s the closest place to pick up some tubes? Where are repair shops in my neighborhood? With three dozen bike shops in Austin, Austin On Two Wheels has but together this comprehensive list of all the bike shops in town to help you find the right shop for you.   [...]

Bicycle Sport Shop is the behemoth of Austin bike shops. Whatever you want, they probably have it tucked away in a corner of their massive, warehouse-like central shop at south Lamar and Barton Springs. Last month, I interviewed Leslie Luciano, Community Relations Manager, about the shop and got some quite interesting facts and tidbits about [...]

In case you missed some of the 42 Austin cycling and bike culture events that happened this weekend, he’s a quick highlight of some of the cool things that happened. Don’t want to miss out on this weekend? Visit us on Thursdays for our highlight of the week’s coming events or visit our comprehensive calendar [...]

Today, I joined Gary Smith and Joe Ingram from custom bicycle framebuilder Independent Fabrication for a Tour of Austin ride sponsored by Bicycle Sport Shop. This ride was part of a roll out of Independent Fabrication as an offering at BSS which now joins Freewheeling as part of the IF dealer network. Gary Smith is [...]

Who says Austin doesn’t have a vibrant bike culture? There are 50, count ‘em 50 events on our comprehensive calendar of Austin cycling events this week. That means there is on average a cycling related event every 3 1/2 hours in Austin. And it’s not even spring yet! We can’t list them all here, so [...]