My experience: I used the Helmet Lock to lock up my helmet on a few trips around the neighborhood and downtown.
Function: 4/5
Style: 2/5
Build Quality: 5/5
Overall: 4/5
Availability: The Helmet Lock is available for $12.95 or $19.95 for two at the Helmet Lock website.
Summary:
For those wanting to leave their helmet behind when they lock up, the Helmet Lock offers a low [...]
Reminder from Nadia Barrera at the City of Austin:
This is just a reminder of tonight’s Bicycle Theft Resolution Subcommittee Meeting. Our meeting will be held at the Austin Police Department’s Headquarters building located at 715 East 8th Street, on the 4th Floor in the CompStat Room. Please enter the police department through the east entrance [...]
If you work in the Austin cycling community, or, I would presume, an affiliated organization, the City of Austin would like to meet with you and get your feedback regarding an educational campaign they are starting.
Here’s the full email, forwarded to us by the ever-stalwart Leslie Luciano of Bicycle Sport Shop (she now of the [...]
For everyone interested in reading more on the James Clayton bike theft saga, Rob D’Amico of the League of Bicycling Voters has an in-depth story on Clayton’s background, his operations and a lot more in this week’s Austin Chronicle. Highly recommended!
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…but can we get a real one next time?
When my neighborhood Randall’s grocery store was “refreshed” or whatever you wanna call it (the store at Ben White & Manchaca if you’re wondering), they were kind enough to install this row of “bicycle racks” on the side of the building. Bike rack goes in quotes in [...]
Since theft is the hot topic of the moment in the cycling community, here are some extra resources for people trying to make sure they won’t be the next victim. We have a pretty in-depth section on secure ways to lock up your bike here, but the sites below are also very good and approach [...]
What I’ve seen in the past week that I wanted to share with Austin Bike Blog readers:
Brain Pickings, a side which focuses on “brilliant ideas” has an interesting post about bike culture innovations. A couple of the ideas are pretty good. Unfortunately, two of them are also on our Dumbest Product of the Week list.
In [...]
