Posts Tagged ‘seattle’

Over the July 4th holiday, I visited Seattle to see some family, but I also took my travel bike with me to get in some riding and test the new Versa Shifters for internal hub (review coming later this week.) Now that I have been back in Austin for a few weeks, I’ve reflected on [...]

This last week was the summer solstice which goes fairly unnoticed in our sun drenched city. However, if you live in places where winter nights go on forever, the solstice is a time to get out and celebrate the warm rays of brother sun.  In Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood (home of the huge VI Lenin statue [...]

One thing that’s been great since we started this site is that we’ve met a lot of great writers from bike sites here in Austin and beyond. Just Monday, for example, we met the writer of local blog Cyclebum. A couple of the best bloggers we’ve met so far are Anne and Tim from the [...]

Mike Hoffman was kind enough to write this up about the Seattle International Bike Expo, and posted it as a comment yesterday. I really appreciate his insight so I’m promoting it to a full post. His full comments are below – what a great community! I went to the 2009 Seattle Bike Expo. It was [...]

From the Cascade Bicycle Club in Seattle comes this interesting satire. Don’t miss out on being stuck in traffic, join in the fun!

Ever had one of those weeks? Sorry all, the roundup is two days late this week, but here it is! We have a lot of great stuff for you, so I’m sure it was worth the wait. Apparently some Portland residents don’t actually want to bike to get around. They would rather walk. Can you [...]

Houston’s new bicycle coordinator has a tough job ahead. The Houston Chronicle has a short story on their desperately needed bicycle plan update. Seattle is installing on-street bicycle parking in place of car spaces. Do we have the guts to do this in Austin? The Bike-sharing Blog reports that San Francisco is getting a bike-sharing [...]

There seems to be a real trend in recycling bike parts lately. In just the last week, we reported on Bike Furniture Design, a company that recycles bike parts into furniture, and let you know about an open call for your old bike gear cogs to be used to build iconic bike rack sculptures in [...]

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 [...]