Posts Tagged ‘SXSW’

For the last several years, Bike Hugger has hosted a SXSW social ride called the Mobile Social. It started as an informal way for cyclists and bike bloggers at SXSW to get together and meet, but with the explosion of the social cycling movement, the ride has grown into an event. On Tuesday, Bike Hugger [...]

SXSW is in full swing, and Bicycle Sport Shop is doing its part to encourage people to participate in the fest on two wheels. They are doing a bike valet service this week at the following times and are needing volunteer help: Thursday 4pm – 7pm 2 people Thursday 7pm – 10:30pm 3 people Saturday [...]

Though some may of thought there was a bike summit going on here in Austin, the tenth annual National Bike Summit was held this last weekend in DC. Here’s an overview from StreetsFilm. Also, if you are attending SXSW Interactive, there will be a session today at 11 AM called Change the World, Lives, with [...]

On Saturday, SXSW was in full swing, and Seattle based BikeHugger hosted their fourth SXSW Mobile Social. This year’s was huge with over 1000 two wheelers, but luckily BikeHugger brought in the pros at SocialCyclingATX who regularly handle 100s of cyclists on Austin’s streets without major conflict with cars.  Their able ride leaders shepherded us [...]

Plus other bike related SXSW activities The Seattle based site Bike Hugger will be returning to SXSW this March 13 with a larger Mobile Social, their itinerant social cycling ride. In addition to the ride, they will be putting on a a variety show at Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop. This event is about you and [...]

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. By the [...]

I just saw over at ATXBS that Fast Folks Cyclery, which I’m supposing is a new bike shop, is sponsoring an all day music festival at their new location, 2513 A. East 6th St., from 2 PM to 11 PM. They’ve arranged to have something like 19 bands from all over North America play which is pretty impressive.  Here’s [...]

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 [...]

Speaking of bikeshare concept B-Cycle which we wrote about yesterday, one of the brains behind the concept will be speaking on it at SXSW next Friday. Alex Bogusky, Chairman of Ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky will be at SXSW Interactive to talk about the concept. To quote their media release: In increasingly turbulent times, [...]

The Bike Hugger SXSW Mobile Social just got better with the addition of ArtBike!. What is ArtBike!? It is a street art/sculpture/installation art exhibition, that is open to all and brings creative progressive people together through community, bikes and art! ArtBike! is an effort to create a community buzz about just how cool it is to be [...]