Tired of the high cost of car ownership? Looking for a low cost way to enter a life on two wheels? Austin’s Yellow Bike Project is ready to put you on a new-to-you set of wheels and strike a blow for liberty this July 4th. Independence Day Bike Sale! Monday, July 4 12:00pm – 3:00pm [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Yellow Bike Project’
Friday Film Fun: Bikes Make Life Better by People For Bikes
Today’s short is a very cool use of lighting to envision a better world created by more people cycling instead of driving. It the film was shot in the capital of car culture, Los Angeles, and was produced by People For Bikes, a coalition seeking a petition of over 1 million Americans calling for safe [...]
Austin City Council Candidates Forum on Bicycling next Monday, Apr 4
Next Monday, April 4, the League of Bicycling Voters, Austin Cycling Association, UT Orange Bike Project, and Austin’s Yellow Bike Project will be hosting its Austin City Council Candidates Forum on Bicycling. This will be a chance to find out where candidates stand on cycling issues including implementation of the Master Bicycle Plan. Austin City [...]
Yellow Bike Project hits Kickstarter with Raise the Rex project
A couple weeks ago, we let you know about a public art project the Austin Yellow Bike Project is working on called Raise the Rex. The project to be installed at their new headquarters on Webberville road will be a kinetic sculpture of a Tyrannosaurus Rex riding a bicycle and will be completely wind driven. [...]
Yellow Bike Project Raise the Rex fundraiser this Friday
Now that the Yellow Bike Project has a permanent home on Webberville road, the bike distributing non-profit is seeking a way to spruce up the joint with an awesome sculpture to keep Austin weird. They are working to build a pedaling Tyrannosaurus Rex sculpture out of recycled bicycle parts in front of Yellow Bike HQ. [...]
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: 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 [...]
Ten biggest stories of 2009 in Austin cycling
2009 was a momentous year for cycling in Austin with several mile stones passed and the volume of people moving on two wheels growing. Here is a quick run down of what I think are the top ten Austin bike related stories in order of importance. If 2010 is anything like this year, Austin’s cycling [...]
Tour de Fat looking for volunteers
The Tour de Fat, a one day celebration of the bike, is this weekend, and in addition to being a whole lot of fun, the New Belgium Brewery donates all the beer sales to local cycling organizations. In our case, that means Austin Yellow Bike Project, Austin Cycling Association, and Austin Ridge Riders Mountain Bike Club. In [...]
New Yellow Shirt and other updates from Yellow Bike Project
The Austin Yellow Bike Project has been feverishly raising money at frequent events all summer and through a new microlending Bike Bonds campaign. All of this is helping them close in on the $300,000 needed to build a new shop on Webberville Road. In their latest newsletter, YPB reports that they have raised over $46,000 [...]
