Tape your nose and get out your yellow jumps suit. The League of Bicycling Voters is back this week with their Bike-in Cinema fundraising series with Bottle Rocket Thursday evening at The Triangle. Admission is $2 and proceeds from the beer sales will go to the LOBV courtesy of New Belgium Brewery. Bring a blanket and a chair [...]
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LOBV Bike-in Cinema starts this Thursday
The newly re-invigorated League of Bicycling Voters is kicking off their Bike-in Cinema fundraising series this week with a showing of Goonies Thursday evening at The Triangle. Admission is $2 and proceeds from the beer sales will go to the LOBV courtesy of New Belgium Brewery. Bring a blanket and a chair for movies under [...]
Location set for LOBV meeting
The League of Bicycling Voters will have their first meeting is some time tomorrow night and now have the location, the Rio Grande Restaurant. Coming off their very well attended round table discussion with David Byrne and the hiring of a new Executive Director, Tom Wald, the LOBV is ready to get even more active [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 9/24- 9/30/09
There is a lot to like about this weekend for the person on two wheels. Critical Mass is Friday (with an after party celebrating ATXBS’ 2nd birthday), the return of Austin Bike Zoo’s Alice in Wonderland on bikes on Saturday, and Talking Heads’ lead man David Byrne’s panel discussion on cycling in the city on [...]
LOBV adds staff, Bike-in Movies with Beer, and update on City bike projects
The League of Bicycling Voters recently sent out a newsletter with some interesting developments including the hiring of an Executive Director, Tom Wald. Tom is active in the cycling community serving on the City of Austin Bicycle Advisory Council as well as the person running Orange Bike. The hiring of a staff person shows the [...]
Alert: Legal help needed for out of town cyclist hit and jailed by police at Critical Mass ride
UPDATE: Local attorney Jay Paul Warren (who let us publish that very helpful article on what to do in a bike-car accident) contacted me this evening to let me know he posted bail for the cyclist in question. Jason from ATXBS also sent me an e-mail from Chief Acevedo who is very aware of the [...]
League of Bicycling Voters releases its Austin City Council Endorsements
Local cycling advocacy group, the League of Bicycling Voters, released its list of endorsed candidates for the May 9th Austin City Council Election. There are not a lot of shockers here: Mayor: Lee Leffingwell Place 1: Chris Riley Place 2: Mike Martinez Place 5: Bill Spelman Place 6: Sheryl Cole Bill Spelman is running unopposed and [...]
Austin Bike Culture Events: 1/29- 2/4/08
Who says Austin doesn’t have a vibrant bike culture? There are 50, count ‘em 50 events on our comprehensive calendar of Austin cycling events this week. That means there is on average a cycling related event every 3 1/2 hours in Austin. And it’s not even spring yet! We can’t list them all here, so [...]
Austin Cyclist call to action!
Rob D’Amico with the League of Bicycle Voters is asking that all Austin cyclists contact the Austin City Council to support bike boxes, sharrows, painted bike lanes and Bikes May Use Full Lane signs. This Thursday, City Council agenda (item 29 and item 30) contains a little $97,000 item that carries a lot of weight for [...]
News flash: Bike Lanes make the road safer for cyclists
On Friday, I attended a standing room only City Forum Panel on Bicycle Research sponsored by the Community and Regional Planning Student Organization at the Texas Union on the UT campus. The forum included an interesting report from the Center for Transportation Research as well as an update on the progress toward adopting a new City of [...]
