Posts Tagged ‘Yellow Bike Project’

Sunday was the last night of the Austin leg of the Bicycle Film Festival. The organization and support of the local cycling community this year far surpassed last years hastily put together stop. Five days of activities offered something for everyone from music to rides to alleycats to bike polo to a whole lot of [...]

Volunteer opportunities still available The International Bicycle Film Festival makes it’s next stop in Austin next week, August 5-9. Passes are now available for sale online for $27 or individual screens are available for $10.The passes are good for everything except the opening night Bikes Rock concert with the Black Angels at La Zona Rosa [...]

Bike Month is winding down, but there are still lots of great events going on this week including Critical Mass, the Real Ale Ride, and the launch party on Sunday for Violet Crown Cycles. Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason [...]

Things have slowed down a little going into the Memorial Day holiday, but there are still lots of cycling things to do. Be sure to come out to support the Master Bicycle Plan at the City Council meeting tonight and head over to the Yellow Bike Project 12th Birthday Party afterwards. Here’s a quick run [...]

From the Yellow Bike Project: This Thursday, May 21st, Austin City Council will hold a public hearing on the 2009 update to Austin’s Bicycle Master Plan.  The update outlines a long-term strategy for making cycling a safer and more viable mode of transportation in Austin.  We need to be there, because those who are against [...]

Last week, Marcus posted info about an event for  Querencia Community Bike Shop in Denton, TX. The shop is doing many of the things Austin Yellow Bike Project is doing: rebuilding old bikes and putting them out in the community for those who need them. I just came across this video about the Querencia Community Bike Shop which [...]

From our events calendar: Give your old bike a new life by donating it to the Austin Yellow Bike Project during Bike Month! REI Austin Downtown (6th and Lamar) will host a bike drive on Sunday, May 3rd, 2009, for the Austin Yellow Bike Project. The donated bikes will be fixed up by Yellow Bike [...]

Bike Month begins on Friday, and there are a TON of events, rides, and races going on. We’ve got not one, but two Cross Club races and two FREE alleycat races this weekend as well, plus movies, classes, and Austin Bike Zoo doing its awesomeness with on bike version of Alice in Wonderland. Here’s a [...]

First there were parties and then there were shirts. There is now yet another way to help the Austin Yellow Bike Project reach their $250,000 goal so they can build a permanent workshop on Webberville Road. You can buy this stitch pattern made available by Radical Rags Etsy Shop or available online. (Thanks Jason for letting us [...]

As part on their ongoing and multifaceted fundraising drive to build a new permanent workshop, the Austin Yellow Bike Project is doing a series of limited run t-shirts designed by local artists under the name Yellow Shirt Project. April’s design by Paul Fucik is incredibly cool and now available for purchase online. Get ‘em while [...]