I took around 150 shots at the Texas Custom Bicycle Show today and have a slideshow to share here from Flickr. Enjoy, and look for more over the weekend! The show goes on all weekend, so come out to see some beautiful bikes and support these great Texas framebuilders!
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For over three decades, Austin developers and citizens have been dreaming up something big for the Waller Creek corridor, the area along Waller Creek downtown from Lady Bird Lake up to the University of Texas campus, and it looks like things are finally rolling.
According the City of Austin official page on the project, urban planning [...]
The ‘Original Alamo’ is putting on a bike event, which is good news for all fans of the Bike-In-Movie. This one is a classic, most definitely. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure! This showing will be outside next to Progress Coffee on East 5th, and they’re planning a bike ride to go along with the whole thing [...]
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 [...]
Last night my wife and I went to the Austin Bike Zoo’s HQ at 91 Red River for something Elliott had put on the calendar. I had no idea what to expect, but we ended up being really glad we were there! The Bike Zoo is putting on a performance they call “Wheels of Wonderland,” [...]
This was passed along by the fabulous Eileen at Mellow Johnny’s. Looks like they’re trying to start a series of movies over at the store. I love these kinds of events that bring people in the bike community together for events that don’t necessarily include getting drunk or racing in spandex (or yelling at elected [...]
The Austin Cycling Association meets at 7pm tonight at the LCRA Redbud Center, 3601 Lake Austin Boulevard (it’s on the south side of the road, not the north side like the other main LCRA buildings: click for a map)
Tonight’s topic is camping by bicycle. From their website description:
If you’ve ever dreamed about doing a self-contained [...]
It’s Bicycle Sport Shop’s time for a big sale this weekend. They advertise every bike will be on sale, and looks like pretty decent discounts on accessories and clothing.
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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 real-life courier [...]
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.
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