Posts Tagged ‘ride’

Terrific local event organizer Brooks Goldsmith of Social Cycling ATX and the rapidly growing Thursday night social rides has another great event you may not know about yet: Weekly Early Bird Rides!
I had the pleasure of coming along for last week’s ride and had a great time. These rides are super casual and slow, and [...]

These photos from the 2009 Armadillo Hill Country Classic are not mine, but were posted to the Austin Cycling Association mailing list yesterday. If you like them, thank the publisher on Flickr, GadgetAdam. These look great!

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Just sent over from Leslie Luciano at Bicycle Sport Shop:
Attention all Austin Commuter Challenge participants! There will be a Happy Hour tonight at Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant from 5:30pm to 7pm.
Meet at the pedestrian bridge at 5pm or meet us there. The first 10 people at Rio Grande will receive a complimentary beverage. Enjoy food [...]

I’ll have a full writeup later today but I had to get over to an early morning event at Mellow Johnny’s. For now, here’s a slideshow of Friday’s Political Pedal and Cyclist Happy Hour. I was very glad to see our Police Chief Art Acevedo there.

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From the guys at Social Cycling ATX comes a different kind of ride from their usual:
Faster, more deliberate ride than Thursday’s; In/thru traffic, 9th St jumps, parking garages & sessioning cool spots;
This is not a road ride, it’s “Urban Assault!”
Tuesday, April 14
7:30pm-11:30pm
at the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge

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Bryce Davis raced in the Fort Davis Hammerfest and wrote up this race report. Thanks, Bryce!
We arrived in Marfa, about 20 miles outside of Fort Davis, late Friday night. We checked into our hotel, found some great food to eat, and then set the alarm for an early Saturday morning. Saturday came sooner [...]

Austin Cycling Association Celebrates the 15th Annual
Armadillo Hill Country Classic
Proceeds allow ACA to provide free helmets for children, along with helmet fittings and safety training classes
Austin Cycling Association (ACA), a nonprofit organization that serves the interests of Central Texas cyclists, invites bike riders to join them in the 15th annual Armadillo Hill Country Classic.
The Armadillo [...]

It’s just amazing how two things can work together so perfectly. On Tuesday we wrote about a new Twitter list called Social Cycling ATX  for getting short-notice rides organized and going. Their group is growing fast, with 57 followers on Twitter at last count and a Facebook group with 77 members.
So now you can have [...]

Reader Brooks sent in an announcement of a new social group for planning rides quickly he’s formed on Facebook and Twitter. Here’s the scoop:
“SocialCyclingATX is a grass roots group born into the powers of twitter and facebook getting rides started in a day’s notice. If you’re in Austin and want to ride join the group [...]

Elliott and I were at the BikeHugger Mobile Social today and had a blast. Good ride, good food, and lots of terrific cyclists. Elliott also won an XtraCycle FreeRadical kit and is about to have a two XtraCycle family! We had a terrific time talking to Tim from the great Seattle blog Carfreedays, who rode [...]