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Three more days to take the A2W reader survey

If you haven’t have a chance to do so yet, please take a few moments to take our Austin on Two Wheels reader survey. Anyone who participates in the survey from now until 7 PM CST on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 will be entered into a drawing for some cool prizes. We’ll draw two names [...]

Get to Bicycle Sport Shop and Win $100?

Just posted by Brooks Goldsmith of Social Cycling ATX:
From Wantandfound.com:
The first person to visit the Bicycle Sport Shop South Lamar location and tell an employee at the front register “wantANDfound.com says Ride Your Bike Everywhere!” gets a $100 gift card, absolutely free.
In order to spread the love, we’ll give the next five (5) people who [...]

Join the Juan Big Ride tomorrow and eat a whole lot of breakfast

Eileen from Mellow Johnny’s sends this fun event in for tomorrow’s Bike To Work Day breakfast stations:
The Juan Big Breakfast Ride – Celebrate Bike to Work Day by not going to work! Plan your route and visit as many Bike to Work Day stations as you can in 2 short hours. This is all in [...]

Think you can design a better street? Good Magazine wants to hear from you

Good Magazine is doing a contest this month called Project: Design a Livable Street and wants your submissions. Here are the details:
 
America’s streets leave a lot to be desired. As Carly Clark and Aaron Naparstek write in the latest issue ofGOOD, “For the most part, [traffic engineers] viewed the city from behind a windshield and saw the [...]

Love your bike? Prove it and get a prize or two!

Russell Pickavance, Bike Month Coordinator for the Austin Cycling Association (and employee at The Peddler, huge supporter of Yellow Bike and an all around great guy) sent us this request for submissions for the 2009 Bike Month Guide he’s helping put together.
Here’s what he needs:
Little poems, cartoons, small stories about why you love your bike, [...]

Momentum wants to hear ’bout your life on a bike

Momentum magazine is putting on a very open-ended contest. They want to hear about your “real life on a bike,” and the winner wins the Wald bag and basket to the right.
So, if you have the urge for shameless self-promotion, wanna see your mug in Momentum, and need a new basket, enter their contest here. [...]

On Flickr? Have nice shots of bikes with lights? Enter the Princeton Tec contest

Princeton Tec, makers of really, really bright bike lights, is having a contest for the best/coolest/most amazing photo of “bikes with lights.”
If you think you have the photography skills and you’re on Flickr, follow the instructions on their Flickr group page and submit some!
They’re giving away an SE Lager singlespeed, bags from Crumpler, some nice [...]

Bicycle Design releases finalists for Commuter bike design. What’s missing?

Late last week, the blog Bicycle Design released the finalists for its competition to design a new commuter bike for the masses. The winner of this contest will win a Cannondale Bad Boy Disc.
It’s a pretty cool idea to see what the general cycling populace would come up with it they could design a bike. [...]

It’s Friday – have a beer!

Austin Bike Blog reader Frye sends in a very late, but pretty entertaining, tale of carrying a laaarge object on his bike’s front basket. Here’s what he had to say.

This picture was from Thanksgiving day, 2007, when i was still living in Denver.
My friends threw a party at one house the night before and the [...]