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Earlier today, Austin on Two Wheels reached a milestone: 1000 posts. It has been a fun ride since our humble first post nearly a year and a half ago. We’ve tried to be a resource for the Austin cycling community and are working to [...]

Thanks to everyone who played our Austin Bike Culture Quiz and Bikes Rock concert ticket giveaway. Congrats to Rob D’Amico, Terry O’Halloran, Jessica Sajak, and Andrew Wade who answered our quiz questions correctly and were drawn to received two free passes to the concert tonight. Thanks to the BFF staff for providing the free passes [...]

On Wednesday, August 5 at 8 PM, the Bicycle Film Festival will kickoff it’s tour stop in Austin with the Bikes Rock concert at La Zona Rosa featuring The Black Angels and Tia Cerrera. Tickets are $15 and can be ordered online.
In partnership with the BFF, Austin On Two Wheels will be giving away four [...]

Russell Pickavance, Bike Month Coordinator for the Austin Cycling Association (and employee at The Peddler, huge supporter of Yellow Bike and an all around great guy) sent us this request for submissions for the 2009 Bike Month Guide he’s helping put together.
Here’s what he needs:
Little poems, cartoons, small stories about why you love your bike, [...]

Momentum magazine is putting on a very open-ended contest. They want to hear about your “real life on a bike,” and the winner wins the Wald bag and basket to the right.
So, if you have the urge for shameless self-promotion, wanna see your mug in Momentum, and need a new basket, enter their contest here. [...]

Princeton Tec, makers of really, really bright bike lights, is having a contest for the best/coolest/most amazing photo of “bikes with lights.”
If you think you have the photography skills and you’re on Flickr, follow the instructions on their Flickr group page and submit some!
They’re giving away an SE Lager singlespeed, bags from Crumpler, some nice [...]

Austin Bike Blog reader Frye sends in a very late, but pretty entertaining, tale of carrying a laaarge object on his bike’s front basket. Here’s what he had to say.

This picture was from Thanksgiving day, 2007, when i was still living in Denver.
My friends threw a party at one house the night before and the [...]

Thank you to everyone who submitted pictures and voted in Austin Bike Blog’s “What’s the biggest thing you’ve carried on your bike?” Contest. It’s been a blast to see all the ways people have used their bikes to haul big things.
Chris from Madison, Wisconsin, our first prize winner, did a hell of a job campaigning [...]

For the last 6 weeks, Austin Bike Blog has called for entries in our “What’s the biggest thing you’ve carried on your bike?” Contest. We got a lot of great submissions which we’ve share with you each week. For some reason people named Mark really like to haul things on their bikes.
Now is the time [...]

This is it . . . the final week of listing semifinalists in AustinBikeBlog’s “What’s the biggest thing you’ve carried on your bike?” Contest. We are still taking entries until midnight CST tomorrow, September 30, so you can still have a chance to win fabulous prizes by submitting your loaded bike photo. Once the submissions are in and [...]