Posts Tagged ‘texas’

Here are A2W, we are proponents of buying local whenever possible. Fortunately when it comes to bicycles and bike related items, there are a growing number of local businesses offering some great and unique items for the cyclist.
Earlier this year, we created a Local Bike Shop Guide and added links by region and specialty to [...]

My wife and I attended the 6pm showings at the Bicycle Film Festival Saturday and had a great time. This particular program had two shorts and one feature. The crowd size was really impressive – we got there plenty early and were waaay back in line to get in. Glad to see the festival draw [...]

One of the Texas blogs I’ve been following a while but haven’t put up on our blogroll yet is Beginning Bicycle Commuting. BBC (nice initials there, buddy) is a four-writer blog written mainly about the personal journey of starting to bike commute in Fort Worth, but also covering the local cycling scene, urban planning and [...]

We got this submission from way up north but I thought I would put it up anyway because A) it’s related to the Yellow Bike Project and B) I used to live in Lewisville as a kid so I have a soft spot for this area.
Howard writes, “I volunteer for the Querencia Community Bike Shop [...]

Just out today are the 2009 rankings from the League of American Bicyclists, and the news isn’t good for our state. Last year, we were ranked 30th by their measures of “bike friendliness” and now we’re down to 36th. Ouch.
From the LAB website, a description of the rankings:
The Bicycle Friendly State Program is a two [...]

Over the last several months, we’ve begun producing profiles of local framebuilders like KirkLee and True Fabrication. To help you find a great local maker of hand built bicycles, we recently added a new section on our sidebar links listing all the Texas framebuilders we are aware of with active businesses.
Here’s a quick rundown of [...]

The ACA is continually getting great events together that serve elementary school students across central Texas, providing helmets and safe riding instruction along with holding special events like “bike rodeos.”
One thing they really need for all these events? You. Help them out by volunteering at one of the upcoming events below:
To volunteer contact Laura King [...]

During the East Austin Studio Tour last November I was standing outside some loft condos on sixth street waiting for my wife to get out of a studio and I snapped this shot of some bikes parked just outside:
I had nothing in particular in mind when I shot it (except maybe how glad I was [...]

As we reported last week, the Texas Senate hearing on the 2009 Safe Passing Act was postponed due to the big voter ID bill blowup. When it is rescheduled, we’ll let you know.
The Texas Bicycle Coalition wants to encourage you to participate in their ‘Cyclists in Suits‘ event on April 20. This is not a [...]

Thanks to Bicycle Sport Shop’s Leslie Luciano for sending over this revised, texas-focused release about the 2009 National Bike Summit!
Record Number Attended 2009 Bike Summit!
In total, 580 registrants from 47 states and four countries (Canada, Denmark, Czech Republic and the USA) visited more than 350 Congressional offices on Thursday, March 12. More than a hundred [...]