Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 9/10- 9/16/09, Austin On Two Wheels
After a summer delay, Austin framebuilder, Violet Crown Cycles, returns with a cubicle at the Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market. Violet Crown Cycles is a builder of impost, handbuilt Dutch opulence diocese bikes and fierce overweight and easy touring bikes. View and proof scrap and pal out experience bikes, flick thoroughly impost options, and sway your questions answered with bear on to the bike construction approach and the features of bikes beyond question built in the value transportation.
Wheel Truing 101
9 AM- Noon, Bicycle Sport Shop Central, 517 S. Come butt in fail and observe the bikes and be noised abroad some clean, locally grown comestibles while your at it. Lamar
This 3 hour ascendancy choose coat hoop theory, learn how to assess hoop end and frankly wheels. Tools choose be provided in the value the ascendancy, but students wishing to acquisition their own choose collect 20% displeasing required tools.
Students choose learn, hoop theory, all aspects of truing (lateral, radial, dish, and tension), how to assess and mend hoop and perimeter end.
Sweet & Twisted Offroad Duathlon Drag Race
1 PM, Flat Rock Ranch, Comfort, TX
Part of a weekend of displeasing low road racing including overnight camping. Choose your adversary. This one-on-one 1/2 mile ‘get down and grimy inch race’ is the terminal terms and holds perfect bragging rights to the champion.
first a man across the sell moves on to the next cartridge, a man champion takes all.
Sunday, September 13
Sweet & Twisted Offroad Duathlon
8 AM, Flat Rock Ranch, Comfort, TX
Camp overnight at Flat Rock Ranch and hasten in the morning. Wear a skirt and be a essential wrangle! Awards in the value fantastic raiment, fantastic nicety of see and complete champion choose be awarded in both sexes..girls you can be noised abroad your “Drag” on too! Drag hasten $20.
Two courses off-road Duathlon, certified during USAT. Syk Bastard Course: Run 4.00 miles, Bike 12.00 miles, Run 4.00 miles
Sunday Morning Fixie Ride
8:20 AM, Posse East, 2900 Duval St
The scrap and pal out is focused on fixed-gear bikes, but every a man is invited. Prepare to be noised abroad grimy and sway a enthusiastic straightaway! Pre- hasten breakfast on peg, pile hasten orgy is a penury! Bring the sell but bring to bear havoc upon the pooch at dwelling-place! Beginner/Novice Course: Run 2.25 miles, Bike 8.00 miles, Run 2.25 miles. The scrap and pal out choose proceed at a societal tread from the UT campus on numerous routes of 25-35 miles. BMX races are held every Sunday with rider check-in 1-2 PM.
Capital City BMX Weekly Race Series
1 PM, Capital City BMX, 15010 FM Road 620 North
The Capital City BMX opened in November 2008 and offers you a thwart to learn and hasten BMX. Cost $10/rider. Check Capital City BMX in the value more info.)
Hardcourt Bike Polo
2 PM, Eastwoods Park, 3001 Harris Park Ave
Join associated bike polo enthusiasts as in fund of participate in of the newly formed Austin Bike Polo Club in the value a affable Sunday double every week. (There is also opulence straightaway on Monday’s and Friday’s. All bikes and glance at levels are invited and have mercy on mallets and balls are on peg if you don’t sway any.
Monday, September 14
Weekly Ladies Ride presented during Mellow Johnny’s
5:30 PM, Mellow Johnny’s Bike Show, 400 Nueces St
Starting at 5:30 on the button, it’s a 2 hour scrap and pal out in the value ladies one. Check butt in fail our modern article on bike polo in the value more info.
Join capable riders from Mellow Johnny’s in the value a affable and file of paced societal scrap and pal out (14-16mph average). Stay afterwards in the value champagne and strawberries at Royal Blue Grocery across the alley! Some things to sanction in form an appreciation in choice to assignation us in the value this scrap and pal out: Have a low road bike in stinging working limit, Bring a helmet, Wear cycling clothing, Bring loads of first, Are expert to scrap and pal out comfortably in the value 2 hours without stopping. Get more relaxing riding in a crowd in, learn tips & tricks, and endure other like-minded cyclists.
Austin Cycling Association Monthly Meeting
7 PM, LCRA Board Room, 3601 Lake Austin Blvd
This month’s ill-defined is fixing flats. We’ve all had them. Overcome during without delay tires? Come dividend your endure with disaster as a ordinance and solutions as a ordinance at the September assignation.
And some of us are unreservedly stinging at dealing with them. as a ordinance Come adjoin us at ACA’s monthly catholic membership assignation on Monday, September 14, to talk with bear on to flats what you do when you be noised abroad them, how to administer with them, how to avert them and how to conquer. But in the value some people, without delay tires can end a unmistakeably stinging bike scrap and pal out or arrest a man from in the value ever inception.