Posts under ‘Cycling with Kids’

My experience: Yuba sent me a Mundo 21 speed with lots of accessories to test, and I’ve been riding it several times a week for 6 weeks.
Build Quality: 3.5/5
Function: 4.5/5
Style: 2/5
Overall: 4/5
Availability: Yuba is actively looking for an Austin dealer but for now you must order online at the Yuba site. A stripped down 6 [...]

There are some opportunities coming up to help kid in our community get on bicycles and discover the low-cost freedom of travel by bike.
Volunteering for Kid Bike Rodeo at Patsy Sommer Elementary School
Bicycle Sport Shop will be helping with a Kid Bike Rodeo at Patsy Sommer Elementary School on Friday, February 5. The event is [...]

For the past 13 years, Mix 94.7 has put on the Bikes for Kids project each holiday season giving away over 11,000 bikes to local children in need of two wheels. For most of us, the bicycle was our first taste of freedom of movement, seeing our community without constant adult supervision. Bikes have helped [...]

Coming back from Lubbock this holiday weekend, we encountered the flip side of the vision of a city in denial I observed. About an hour into our trip, we saw a an enormous bicycle contraption heading the other direction with five people on it. Seeing a cyclist at all in West Texas is unusual, but [...]

“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden,Violet Crown Cycles
In April during one of my first ventures to the Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market with the Violet Crown Cycles tent, I met an individual who loved the look and functionality of my Ferguson city bikes but really [...]

Editor Note: Bike Noob is a local blog covering road riding in Austin with ride and race reports, useful tips, and long term product testing. The Noob recently wrote about his experience at the Bike Fest at Kiker Elementary School in southwest Austin and agreed to let us re-post here. I wanted to share this [...]

Today is the first day of school for Austin K-12 students and is the first day of kindergarten for my son Miles. Unlike the vast majority of children in town, Miles will not be going to school in a car. Instead, he will be riding everyday on my wife’s Xtracycle in defiance of a recent [...]

The Austin Ridge Riders is the oldest and most well established mountain bike club in Austin. Judi Ronkartz, the president of the Austin Ridge Riders, was nice enough to sit down with Austin on Two Wheels and discuss the many facets of the club.

Bikes on the beach at Pace Bend
Bikes on the beach at Pace Bend

Ridge Riders in a nutshell…
When the Ridge Riders was established in 1987, mountain biking was still in its infancy. As mountain biking has grown, so has the Ridge Riders. If you ride on a trail in Austin the Ridge Riders have likely had a hand in it. Besides trail work, the Ridge Riders promote safe environmentally friendly biking, organize rides, volunteer at biking related events and work to the benefit of mountain biking in the greater Austin Area. The Ridge Riders are as passionate about giving back to the community as they are about having fun. Calling them a club may be selling them short as an organization. If it’s Austin and its mountain biking, it’s also the Ridge Riders. Follow the link to read more.

I’m a big fan of cargo bikes. They add major utility to transportation cycling making the thought of living car-free even more of a reality. You can do a week’s worth of grocery shopping, transport small children or even adults, or pick up a couch. Best of all, you can do all these things while [...]

A few months ago, one of my neighbors spotted me taking my kids to school on our bicycle mini-van, a Trek 7200 with an Xtracycle Free Radical conversion kit and my own home made handlebars for secure child transport. Courtney e-mailed me to let me know she liked our setup and to let me know [...]