The Bicycle Austin Blog is written by a team of local experts:

Webmasters

• Mike Librik (UrbanCycling.com, safe cycling educator)
• Mike Dahmus (acclaimed transportation blogger)
• Tom Wald (editor of BikeNotes.org)
• Michael Bluejay (editor of BicycleAustin.info)
• Rob D’Amico (president of the League of Bicycling Voters)

Daily cycle commuters

• Amy Babich (well-known contributor of pro-bike letters to the Chronicle)
• Tommy Eden (tireless advocate for better bicycling infrastructure)
• Eric Anderson (father of the Lance Armstrong Bikeway)

Cycling organizations

• City of Austin Bicycle Program [invited to participate; participation pending]
• Bicycle Advisory Council (provides input to the City’s Bicycle Program)
• League of Bicycling Voters (opponents of the mandatory helmet law)
• Austin Cycling Assocation (largest local general biking group)
• Yellow Bike Project (not-for-project community bike shops)
• Texas Bicycle Coalition (lobbies for safer roadways)

Contact

Here’s our contact page.

History

Bicycle Austin started out around 1995 on AOL as a single web page of resources about local bike stuff. By the late 90’s the editor got his own domain (MichaelBluejay.com) and put it there, adding dozens of pages in the process. In 2000, wanting Bicycle Austin to be viewed as its own thing (rather than “Bluejay’s site”), he moved it to BicycleAustin.com. When the .info domains became available in 2003, he moved it to BicycleAustin.info, where it lives today. The Bicycle Austin email list (”forum”) traces its roots to the Critical Mass email list started on a University of Texas server in 1994. In the late 90’s, Bluejay merged that list with Roger Baker’s “austrans” bicycle list and put it on Topica. In 2003, he moved it to BicycleAustin.info. The Bicycle Austin Blog was started in 2008 at the suggestion of a new email list member, Peter Smith, who had just moved to Austin from Palo Alto.