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Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 4/2- 4/8/09

I’m not much of a mountain biker, but I gather from the calendar that April is when things start to really happen in MTB racing and riding. The Austin Ridge Riders are having their big Single Track Stampede and the Austin Flyers have just posted an updated club ride schedule for mountain bike rides including [...]

Book Review: Nowtopia, by Chris Carlsson

Summary: a vision of a utopian society beyond our current wage-slave capitalism, one that incorporates growing independent movements. Rating: 5/5 Available at: Processed World, Amazon, etc. I bought my copy at City Lights in San Francisco. Are you ready for post-capitalist society? In Nowtopia, author and Critical Mass founder Chris Carlsson looks at growing movements [...]

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 3/12-3/18/09

Austin’s cycling community is doing it up right with spring break and SXSW starting this weekend! You could spend all day Saturday going from event to event and never leave your saddle yet still pick up some grub, suds, and swag. Sweet! Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find [...]

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 3/5-3/11/09

Spring is here which explains how we’ve inched up to 92 cycling related events for the coming week on our comprehensive calendar of Austin Cycling Events. That means on average there is a cycling event happening every two hours. 100 events/week can’t be far away! Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find [...]

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 2/26- 3/4/09

We are up one event over last week for a total of 85 cycling events this week in the Austin area. Our comprehensive cycling and bike culture event calendar has slowed in growth a bit the last week, but I prefer to think we are taking a breather before spring comes roaring in. As always, [...]

Dialectica show on KVRX covers Austin cycling issues in this week’s show

Dialectica is a radio show on KVRX, the student radio at UT, produced by students that are part of the LBJ School Sustainability Working Group. The show examines the civic, political, and economic issues that matter to us all on global, national, and local levels.  Recently the show has focused on cycling issues in Austin including this week’s [...]

Austin Bike Culture Events: 2/12- 2/18/09

My, oh my, how our cycling calendar grows. At last count, there were 76 cycling related events for the coming week on our comprehensive calendar of Austin Cycling Events. That means there is a cycling event happening a little over every two hours on average. There is not a day of the week where you [...]

The addition of Yellow Bike and Yellow Categories to our Austin Cycling Events Calendar

Learn to wrench, use great tools for free, and give back to the community We have now updated our comprehensive calendar of Austin cycling events to include the open shop hours for the Austin Yellow Bike Project. YBP offers regular open shop hours to allow you to use shop space and tools to repair and maintain [...]

Join Austin Yellow Bike Project for an Valentine benefit

Help YBP reach their goal and build a permanent headquarters at East 12th and Webberville The Austin Yellow Bike Project is a community supported ALL-VOLUNTEER 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing human-powered transportation for the people of Austin, running a community bike shop, and educating kids and adults. In addition to leaving bikes to be shared [...]

Austin Bike Culture Events: 1/29- 2/4/08

Who says Austin doesn’t have a vibrant bike culture? There are 50, count ‘em 50 events on our comprehensive calendar of Austin cycling events this week. That means there is on average a cycling related event every 3 1/2 hours in Austin. And it’s not even spring yet! We can’t list them all here, so [...]