Posts Tagged ‘bike shop’

Last night was Movie Night at Mellow Johnny’s, a series of weekly events they are trying to continue at least through bike month. This week’s movie night featured local framebuilders in person along with some other custom bikes from various builders.
One bike there was a Hetchins, a beautifully kept vintage bicycle from England featuring incredibly [...]

Sorry to start the roundup with sad news, but 52-year-old Burleson County cyclist Donald Nelson was killed last Monday outside of Caldwell. On Wednesday, a six-year-old was run over by an SUV in Dallas. Which vehicle is the dangerous one again?
Rob D’Amico reports in a “virus-induced fog” (his words, guess I’ll trust him that he [...]

Yesterday we reported on the upcoming March 4th Austin Bicycle Plan open house, but there’s an earlier event if you just can’t wait to get your hands on this phone-book-sized document and learn more about it will affect your biking life for the next decade or so.
This open house is next Thursday, February 26 at [...]

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.
 
In addition, [...]

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 Bicycle [...]

ATXBS reported earlier today on a South Austin bicycle shop for sale on Craig’s list. Here’s the posting:
Profitable Bike Shop for sale!! – $110 (South Austin)
Reply to: sale-934229895@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-11-25, 5:17PM CST
Profitable bicycle shop for sale in south austin. With yearly sales of $180k to $200k, and possibly more with proper management. This business was established in [...]

This article is a first in a series Austin Bike Blog will be doing to review bicycle shops in Austin.
Old school. That is the approach Eastside Pedal Pushers owner Lee Gresham has taken in the way he has established his shop. There is no sprawling shop room floor or plasma TVs on the wall, no [...]

This article is part of our AustinBikeBlog becomes PortlandBikeBlog series I’m writing on my recent trip to Portland and my exposure to its bike culture. Look for additional articles later this week.
While staying in Portland, I decided I needed to make a pilgrimage to Clever Cycles, one of the bike stores leading the move toward [...]