Posts Tagged ‘san antonio’

This weekend, bikesharing will officially come to Texas, but it will be San Antonio who kicks off the kiosk driven, short term rental program. On Saturday, San Antonio will be launching bikeshare in partnership with B-Cycle, a national bikesharing company. Austin’s 2009 Master Bicycle Plan calls for a citywide bikeshare program by 2020, and last [...]

This weekend, an Austin on Two Wheels reader set me news that the City of San Antonio is moving forward with a public bike share program to open up later this year. For those unfamiliar with bike share, it is a program that lets you check out bikes from self serve stalls at various locations [...]

On Sunday, I competed in the what is hoped to be the 1st annual Enchanted Rock Extreme Duathlon put on by San Antonio based Redemption Race Productions. The 4 mile run/16 mile bike/2 mile run race was advertised as a challenging course with a finish on the top of Enchanted Rock. Their race motto was “No [...]

OK, this is one… huge… slideshow. I took photos at the Enchanted Rock Extreme Duathlon on Sunday and culled my 450 photographs down to 300, which you see here. This should feature every single participant in the cycling portion of the event. Elliott will provide his thoughts on the event soon. See yourself in one [...]

Domestic pro racing team Kelly Benefits Strategies Pro Cycling will be doing their 2009 racing season team launch from the heart of Texas this Thursday at 7 PM at Bike World on North Loop 1604 in San Antonio. The team will be there to kickoff the season as well as give out some cool door prizes. [...]

Paul Dorn of the Bike Commute Tips Blog has written a completely fantastic column about experiencing the world as a cyclist versus being in a car, focusing on that great biking town Davis, California. Pretty much representative of its industry, the North American Handmade Bicycle Show says they are “holding firm” in this rough economy. [...]

State Bicycle Survey Reveals Danger Concerns, Cycling Perceptions, University of Texas Bicyclists in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio are more concerned with being involved in vehicle crashes compared to bicyclists in other Texas cities, according to a survey conducted by the Center for Transportation Research at The University of Texas at Austin. Midtown Bike Center [...]