Posts Tagged ‘texas’

James Clayton’s home raided by police for stolen bike parts Jason at ATXBS has broken a story about the police raid and arrest of James Clayton, a local Austin cyclists that has been accused of rampant bike theft. The Travis County Sheriff’s Booking Records indicate that Clayton is being charged with 2nd Degree felony for [...]

Girl Power is the theme of Austin Cycling this spring A lot of cycling is dominated by men. Head out to most Saturday morning hammerfests or even many social rides, and you’ll find the rides made up of mostly if not all men. (Even rides advertised as casual can get out of hand pretty quickly.) [...]

Jason over at ATXBS has a post mentioning that there is a last minute alleycat race tonight at 7 PM. An informal in town race and scavenger hunt, alleycat races are a blast and not to be missed. If you don’t make it to Bike Polo, try to stop by for the race. I’m sure the Superbowl will [...]

For those of our readers who are fixed gear fanatics or are interested in Austin’s fixed gear scene, we’d like to give a quick shout out to Austin fixed blog, ATXFixed. There’s great videos, pictures, and articles about all things fixed in Austin, Texas, and occasionally nationally.  This short movie by Austinite Arak Avakian is [...]

This didn’t make it in time for the weekly calendar of Austin Bike Culture Events, but that’s OK ’cause it deserves its own post. I just saw over at ATXBS that the guys who’ve been putting together occational bike polo matches have gone legit (well, as legit as bike polo gets) and formed an Austin [...]

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series of articles we are doing to profile Texas handbuilt framebuilders. Life is good right now at KirkLee. In just over 12 months, framebuilder Brad Cason has taken a  framebuilding business that was just an idea and generated a tremendous amount of buzz as an up [...]

The Spring 2009 semester of Informal Classes at the University of Texas has begun, and there are several bicycle related classes being offered. These include Bicycle Repair, Bicycle Commuting 101, Road Biking 101, and Mountain Bike I. Here’s a brief summary of each class. Those interested in attending can register through the Informal Classes website. [...]

Last week, we launched our comprehensive calendar of all cycling related events in Austin. We started with the events we knew as well as using the calendars we normally visit, however we are not satisfied to just bring you the events we’ve been familiar with. We continue to search all the cycling sites in town [...]

Now you can find everything bike related going on in town at Austin Bike Blog On any given day in Austin, there may can be 10 or more rides, races, or bike culture events. To help discover you new cycling events, plan your racing schedule for the year, or find a last minute ride, we [...]

Austin has several thousand parking meters, which are set to be replaced over the next couple of years by electronic parking kiosks at each block of metered spaces. At least, this is the latest news. A quick search through the City of Austin shows that this has been talked about for nearly twelve years. But [...]