Posts Tagged ‘bike culture’

Klunkerz: A Film About Mountain Bikes Directed by Billy Savage Pumelo Pictures Official site: Klunkerz.com Overall Impression: 7/10 Pumelo Pictures were kind enough to provide us with a review copy of Klunkerz, their documentary about the orgins of the modern mountain bike, recently. I watched Klunkerz with my wife, who (thankfully!) takes a passing interest [...]

For a century, Detroit was the center of America’s slow dismantling of non-automotive forms of transportation, but with the American auto industry reeling, some are seeing the bicycle as a possible tool of renewal. The New York Times recently wrote how the flat and relatively deserted center city of the Motown have made for a [...]

Our good friend and prolific bike event writer Jason over at Austin Texas Bike … Stuff has had a bad week and could use a hand. He’s had the misfortune of not one but THREE major bike parts break on him this week and he’s out a few hundred dollars. Trust me, I feel his [...]

Summary: A look at the growing urban bike culture in the United States and Europe, with a special emphasis on the personalities involved. Rating: 5/5 Availability: Order it from Powell’s if you want to feel authentic. Otherwise you could go for the usual, Amazon. “I often saw cyclists running red lights, riding the wrong direction [...]

We were just sent this video clip of Downtown Austin that features bike messengers. Check it out!

We’d like to congratulate Jason Abels over at the local bike blog ATXBS on winning a “Best of Austin” award from the Austin Chronicle this year. The Chron says: The clean-lined blog is a treasure trove of timely listings for stuff like Critical Mass rides, nighttime group cruises, underground alley-cat races, and pub crawls. Blogger [...]

I’m a little bleary eyed today as I’ve spent the last 24 hours making up for all the time I’m not been in a car the last several months. Yesterday, Marcus and I went on a business road trip to the Dallas area that put us in a car for 9 hours. Blah. They we [...]

We live in such a car dominated culture that most people think only of the price of gas and maybe insurance when thinking about the cost of gas. Few people think of the other hidden costs like depreciation and the lost revenue from having tens of thousands of dollars tied up in a hunk of [...]

I just took this picture of the bike rack at my office when I arrived at 10 am. When I began commuting by bicycle two years ago, many days I had the rack to myself. Now the demand is so high, our landlord doubled the number of racks and it’s still full every day. I [...]