a website (not an organization) by Michael Bluejay
(not to be confused with Bike Austin, which chose a name similar to ours)
Awarded "Best of Austin" by the Austin Chronicle.

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Important/Popular stuff

Submit video of bad drivers.
Traffic Laws | Helmet Law
Austin Bike Map, more Routes & Maps
Local bike shops & Frankenbike
Austin NOT a Top 10 cycling city!
APD's Collision Database
To report potholes, roadway & sidewalk hazards, and illegal parking, call 311 or use the 311 web form

Local Advocacy

Bikes

Austin Ghost Bike Project
Capital City AMBUCS provides trikes to those w/disabilities
Please Be Kind to Cyclists
Austin Bicycle Meals. Delivers food to the hungry.
Yellow Bike Project
teaches kids & adults how to fix bikes
Bikes Across Borders fixes up old bikes & takes them to Mexico
Ghisallo Foundation
promotes youth cycling

Other Transportation

Safe Streets Austin. Bike Austin, Walk Austin, Vision Zero ATX all merged to form this group in 2022.
Aura. Better transit
Movability. Commute options for employers

Local Government

Share the Road License Plate.
Get one for your car

Statewide Advocacy

Bike Texas

National Advocacy

Local Bike & Transpo sites

Weekly Rides

MON. Biking Betties. Women-only.
TUE. Yoga Ride. 6:30pm.
TUE. N. Austin Social. 7:30pm from Balcones District Park.
WED. Queer Ride, 7:00pm, from the Capitol.
THU. Thu. Night Social Ride. Meet 7pm, ride 8pm, from Metz Park in the winter and Festival Beach in the summer. Probably the largest weekly ride with 200+ riders.

Other weekly rides (check the links)

Monthly & Annual Rides

Full Moon Ride.

See schedule

Critical Mass.

Hottest Day of the Year Ride.

32nd Annual Moonlight Cruze
Sun Sep 7 2014 02:00am
Leaves from the Pluger Bridge.

Get Your Ride Listed

monthly or weekly
free
not a sports or training ride
has its schedule clearly listed on a website (whose address you'll provide me),

let me know

The Statesman has a
must-read article about
ped & cyclist deaths in Austin.
Why are you still here?
Go read it now!

Naughty Bicycle Ad

Our Chicago correspondent sent us a photo of a print ad for a bicycle that had an unintentionally naughty element. This is definitely rated "hard R", so don't look at it if you think you might be offended.

Naughty bicycle ad

The ad reportedly appeared in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette Thursday June 17th, 1999. They caught the problem later and the second run did not include a bicycle seat.

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