Posts under ‘Cycling with Kids’

I discovered this great short video of a bike bus project in Vienna, VA. If you are not familiar with the concept, a bike bus works like a real bus with “stops” along the way to pick up riders. Essentially, a leader starts the ride and brings riders into the group at predetermined times and [...]

Editor’s Note: This is a second in an ongoing series of guest posts from Sally Miculek. an Austin mom who’s trying to ride her bike more places and leave the car in the driveway.
So, when you read about bicycling for transportation, you read a bit about planning ahead.  Planning for how long routes take (cause [...]

Editor’s Note: Austin on Two Wheels would like to welcome our latest guest writer, Sally Miculek. Sally is a friend and mother of two young children who is attempting to drive less and ride more to get around Austin. She has a nice introduction here but if you liked my wife Amy’s articles about her [...]

Welcome to the sixth and final installment of my month-long series about me and the 30 days of biking challenge.  Over the month of April, I will take my bike out for at least a short ride every day.  I’m also hoping to reduce my car use and perhaps even shed a pound or two. [...]

Welcome to the fifth installment of my month-long series about me and the 30 days of biking challenge.  Over the month of April, I will take my bike out for at least a short ride every day.  I’m also hoping to reduce my car use and perhaps even shed a pound or two. You might [...]

Welcome to the fourth installment of my month-long series about me and the 30 days of biking challenge.  Over the month of April, I will take my bike out for at least a short ride every day.  I’m also hoping to reduce my car use and perhaps even shed a pound or two. You might [...]

Welcome to the third installment of my month-long series about me and the 30 days of biking challenge.  Over the month of April, I will take my bike out for at least a short ride every day.  I’m also hoping to reduce my car use and perhaps even shed a pound or two. You might [...]

Welcome to the second installment of my month-long series about me and the 30 days of biking challenge.  Over the month of April, I will take my bike out for at least a short ride every day.  I’m also hoping to reduce my car use and perhaps even shed a pound or two. You might [...]

Hi.  My name is Amy McFadden.  You may have seen me, or read about me, in some of Elliott’s other posts, such as the one about taking our son to kindergarten on my bike.  Over the past few years I have become a pretty regular bike-rider; being married to Elliott, it would be hard not [...]

As part of the Discover the City on Two Wheels Spring Urban Living Rides we’re doing, we are going to offer folks a chance to test ride some cool bikes like the bakfiets, the Dutch cargo box bike ubiquitous in Amsterdam and Copenhagen as the cyclists version of the SUV.
Local developers at Constructive Ventures were [...]