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Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 9/29- 10/5/11

Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll [...]

Social Cycling Austin calling for public art idea submissions for Festival Beach

Since they outgrew the Pfluger pedestrian bridge, Social Cycling Austin’s Thursday Night Social Ride eventually settled on Festival Beach near Fiesta Gardens as their meeting spot to start the ride. This spot better accommodates the 200 to as many as 500 people who take part in the weekly ride. Working with City staff, City Councilman [...]

Let’s get social

Editor note: This is the first post in a series of guest posts Minor Baker is writing for us as the winner of our spring My Ride contest. Today, he writes about his first Thursday Night Social Ride by Social Cycling Austin. We’ve written about and promoted the weekly institution, but this is a engaging [...]

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 3/24- 3/30/11

Now that SXSW and Spring Break are behind us and Spring has officially begun, the weekly calendar is chock-full of ways to ride your bike. Austin on Two Wheels‘ Urban Living Rides continue this weekend with our Cupcake Ride on Saturday and Eastside Home Tour on Sunday. Also on Saturday are two great century rides [...]

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 2/24- 3/2/11

So we’ve been cruising along nice and quiet through the winter until ***BOOM** this weekend hits with an absolutely insane number of cycling events going on. First there is this little get together called NAHBS, then comes a bike-in movie premier, forum on getting cycling more diverse, 2 road races (turns out they are next [...]

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 2/17- 2/23/11

After a bout of real winter weather, Austin is back to what we expect: sunny and in the 60s and 70s. It’s going to be a great weekend to ride! Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS [...]

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 2/10- 2/16/11

No Snowpocalypse this week, though the temperatures are about the same. Fight the urge to stay inside and ride your bike! Road racing season gets kicked off in earnest this weekend with the Tour of New Braunfels along with some weekly favorites. Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from [...]

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 2/3- 2/9/11

Baby, it’s cold outside . . . but that doesn’t mean you can’t ride your bike. Check out the excellent primer on winter riding from Streetfilms and don’t let the winter weather stop you. Also, if you can make it tonight do attend the Shifting Gears presentation by BikeTexas. It’s free (RVSP requested) and previous [...]

Social Cycling Austin putting out the call for help in growing activities in 2011

In this week’s Thursday Night Social Ride announcement, Social Cycling Austin head honcho Keith Byrd put out a call to action to help grow the scope of the group in 2011. After meteoric growth in 2009 and an expansion in the number of rides offered in 2010, Social Cycling Austin is looking to create more [...]

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 1/27- 2/2/11

It’s the end of the month so that means two things: Critical Mass and Frankenbike. The folks at Frankenbike are partnering this month with Fast Folks Cyclery in a bike swap and kickoff party for Fast Folks new location. Also on Tuesday, the Dirt Derby is having their end of season party at the Black [...]