Social Cycling Austin’s Thursday Night Social Ride is already the most popular regular ride in town. It’s not unusual to see several hundred riders partake in the weekly bike and brew affair on any given ride. I’ve never found the ride to particularly intense, but apparently Social Cycling Austin wants to make an even more [...]
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Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 1/20- 1/26/11
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 [...]
Yellow Bike Benefit Show scheduled for August 26
Austin’s Yellow Bike Project is having another fun fundraiser later this month as part of next week’s Thursday Night Social Ride. While they’ve finished and opened their new workshop on Webberville Road, they still need your help.
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 6/24- 6/30/10
It’s the end of the month, so regulars like Critical Mass and Frankenbike are back. Also on Wednesday, the Texas High School Mountain Bike Racing League is kicking off their fund raising to kickstart their inaugural 2011 season with a showing of “Ride The Divide” including a guest visit from the film’s producers. Here’s a [...]
Is the Thursday Night Social Ride threatening free swim at Barton Springs?
I am a major fan of Social Cycling Austin’s Thursday Night Social Ride, and while I don’t make the ride as often as a should, it really is a cornerstone of bike culture as we know it in Austin today. That’s why I was disheartened to see this e-mail from a ride participant last night: [...]
Social Cycling ATX to offer the tweed ride alternative, the Denim Ride, this Thursday
Tweed Rides have gotten a lot of press lately, but for us Texans, denim and boots are more our style. Social Cycling ATX has picked up on this and is making this week’s Thursday Night Social Ride themed as a Denim Ride. I want to see stitched denim, bedazzled denim, jorts, denim jackets, denim loin [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 2/25- 3/3/10
Despite the snowfall this week, spring is right around the corner, and it shows with the plethora of activities this week. Tonight will be a fundraiser for Mariel Mentink who was hit by a car on New Years Eve while on Monday APD Chief Art Acevedo will be the guest of a forum on bike [...]
Icy weather causes Social Cycling ATX to cancel Thursday Night Social Ride
We’ll have the weekly event round up shortly but wanted to make sure everyone was aware that Social Cycling ATX has canceled their popular weekly Thursday Night Social Ride due to the potentially icy weather tonight. This week it just ain’t going to happen. The streets will be extra slick from the ice and unless [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 1/28- 2/3/10
My apologies for getting the weekly event round up out late this week, but our full calendar of events needed some major updating and now has all the upcoming ACA rides, Traffic 101 classes and mini clinics and TXBRA road races as well as most of the charity rides on the calendar for this spring. [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 12/31/09- 1/6/09
On Tuesday, I mentioned that in 2009 over 4200 bike related events occurred in Austin yielding an average event every 2 hours. 2010 doesn’t seem to be letting up. Social Cycling ATX’s Thursday Night Social Ride and the Full Moon Cruise tonight will ensure you can ring in the New Year on two wheels in [...]
