Posts Tagged ‘velo couture’

I can’t believe I didn’t find out about this opportunity for velo couture until today. This week is Fashion Week downtown, and Google Places and Method Hair are throwing a bike themed party to benefit the Austin Cycling Association. Not sure how to be fashionable on a bike? Head over to Copenhagen Cycle Chic for [...]

Pictures of highway flyovers and commuting to work doesn’t sell cars and it won’t sell bikes either As our city and our country tries to move away from the oil dependent lifestyle of the last 65 years, many efforts are being made to encourage every day people to choose cycling over driving. Some small progress [...]

This week The New York Times reported on what Marcus and I have always known: Dutch bikes aren’t only practical, they are very stylish. The Times goes on to mention how traditional European city bikes are becoming increasingly popular with the fashion set. This new It object is the glossy black Dutch bicycle, its design [...]

The fashion industry has inspired us to pen more than one Dumbest Product of the Week. When fashion and cycling converge as they often do with clothing maker Rapha, we have pay dirt. Some of you may recall Rapha’s $750 Tweed Softshell as our 16th edition Dumbest Product winner. This softshell may be OK for [...]

There seems to be a real trend in recycling bike parts lately. In just the last week, we reported on Bike Furniture Design, a company that recycles bike parts into furniture, and let you know about an open call for your old bike gear cogs to be used to build iconic bike rack sculptures in [...]

In the last year, transportation cycling has not only become an increasingly popular way for people to get from point A to B, it has also been embraced by part of the fashion industry with the growing velo couture segment.  At Interbike this year, utility cycling took the show by storm and Momentum magazine held [...]

My Experience: Using the Basil Memphis Panniers for about four months, for commuting, errand running, grocery getting, and just generally carrying things!

Thank you to another AustinBikeBlog reader for alerting me to the existence of this week’s nominee for our Dumbest Product of the Week. This week’s winner once again attempts to solve a legitimate problem, being seen at night, but takes a wrong turn somewhere along the way and ends up at a dead end with [...]

Since I am competing in the National Age Group Triathlon this weekend, it is only fitting that this week’s nominee for Dumbest Product of the Week be related to the first leg of triathlon, the swim. Thanks to the alert reader who let me know about this product that comes straight from the runway, the [...]

If a columnist in the “Arts & Living” section at the Washington Post can make a great story like this one: Cycling Back Around: Four Wheels Good, Two Wheels Better. In the City, an Old-Fashioned Conveyance Returns In which David Montgomery writes amazing things like This is the summer of women on bicycles riding around [...]