Posts Tagged ‘trek’

Yesterday, bike share company B-Cycle stopped in Austin to demo their kiosk style, self-serve bike rental system. Their demo was part of a City of Austin initiative to investigate creating a public bike share program in Austin. Currently, City staff participate in an employee only bike share program, but the 2009 Master Bike Plan calls [...]

Eurobike is wrapping up and Interbike, the North American bicycle trade show, will be starting up in the next few weeks. In the past, this has been the place where bicycle companies big and small try to wow dealers and industry writers with the lightest, most aero on everything from bikes to wheels to shoes. [...]

Interested in doing a triathlon and want questions answered? Attend this special session tomorrow at Mellow Johnny’s and find out if the tri lifestyle is for you! There will be sessions for clothing, gear and training along with door prizes. 6:30pm-8:30pm 400 Nueces RSVP to erin@mellowjohnnys.com

It’s been nearly 24 hours since I asked our readers to put their two cents in on our next long-term test vehicle.  So far the Trek Soho is in the lead with three votes. Here are the bikes that have also gotten votes: Strida folding bike – yep this would be interesting. I dunno if [...]

Sitting around people watching a bit on second street Tuesday I saw this cyclist fly by and grabbed a quick photo with my Blackberry. I though it was impressive how his bike and safety vest matched so exactly. This is one commuter who will be SEEN in traffic.

Bicycle Sport Shop is the behemoth of Austin bike shops. Whatever you want, they probably have it tucked away in a corner of their massive, warehouse-like central shop at south Lamar and Barton Springs. Last month, I interviewed Leslie Luciano, Community Relations Manager, about the shop and got some quite interesting facts and tidbits about [...]

So do you feel lucky, punk? Do ya?- Dirty Harry While surfing the web this morning, I came across a few submission opportunities for our fellow cyclists to win prizes and glory. If you think you’ve got what it takes, by all means submit away. Trek Women Who Ride Contest Submission Deadline: Saturday, January 24, 2009 [...]

I’ve been looking around at the 2009 bicycle models this week and I’m happy that many more “commuter style” bicycles are being made, but almost all of them are just sort of half-done versions of what I would consider a true utility bicycle – see the Trek Allant as an example. They have some of [...]

And little of this is coming from the bike industry Being the consumer driven society we are in America, television commercials often seem to be the cutting edge on the latest trends in the national conscience (One can argue they book end trends based on the number of super-duty pickup truck ads I still see.) [...]

Giant wins EuroBike Gold Medal for Urban Bike Design Eurobike, one of the bike industry trade shows, was this last weekend and with it, the bike industry rolled out more of the latest, greatest hits in high performance carbon fiber items. While thus far, carbon bike on utility bikes has been limited to Bontrager’s questionable [...]