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 [...]
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Pink: a (love) courier service is back in Austin this April
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: the official vehicle of SXSW
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 [...]
San Francisco considers banning most auto traffic on Market Street
San Francisco’s board of supervisors are seriously considering making Market Street nearly a completely pedestrian and cyclist-focused street. This would be roughly equivalent to us making Congress between the river and the capitol building carfree, or Guadalupe between MLK and 30th or so. Quoting today’s story in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Having been a great [...]
