Comments on: Finding community: cycling in Austin truly rocks.

By: Gregory Phillips

Gregory Phillips — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:04:36 +0000

Sounds as you’ve found a good home to be alive in great. So if you do this nude thing well; I wont go there. The few months I was stationed in San Diego the streets and outlying urban areas were great cyclist turff and many wonderfull people. My new Fugi mountain bike was state of the art named Yellow Jacket, for it was that super safety YELLOW with Black detail, coool. Im happy for you to have found a group of riders that you enjoy and have a connection with. The lady that took the tumble well; I suppose thats just another of more to come. Be carefull its so easy to zone in a care free mind set where adventure and companionship cause; in my case; (Makes the world go away) enough for today. God Bless ,Gregory. [see you at Twitter]

By: Allison Peacock

Allison Peacock — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:08:42 +0000

Sean, nice to “meet” you! Thanks for the concern. I was in a crowd full of strangers aside from Maria at MJ’s the other day. I appreciate your saying hello! The 20 miles would have been just about right for me if the pace hadn’t been too hard to keep up with my heavy bike. (I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that I’d only been training about three weeks!) Yes, AC2 rocks. Welcome to the group. Keep me posted by email what you’re looking for in the way of rides. I”m trying to mash several together now due to special requests emailed to me by group members. Hope to see you soon!

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:52:56 +0000

Allison, God bless you. I was in with the group from AC2 right after that lady crashed and trying to catch the main group. When we pulled up at Pleasant Valley, I noticed you were missing and I’m sorry that the pace went that quick. It wasnt too long after that, Maria and I also dropped back and decided to turn around. 4 of us retraced our route back to MJ’s having wound up doing about 20 miles total.

So despite only having seen Lance briefly, it was a fun little ride and I got to meet the great folks of AC2. Hope to see you at another bike event sometime. I will check your neighborhood group rides and try to meet up sometime.

By: Allison Peacock

Allison Peacock — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:03:08 +0000

Rest assured that this is being considered. Byrne even displayed photos of the spaces he recommended in downtown Austin for such. And also showed a photo from China, I think, of a several stories tall rack of bikes in a public setting and a bike parking “room” in a Japanese building supplied with dual-storied storage racks. Way cool!

By: Jonathan de la Luz

Jonathan de la Luz — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:56:03 +0000

I follow a variety of blogs on-line to test the waters of current opinion from pop-culture to hardships of our troops and their families (and a lot more in-between). I must say that this is the first time I have ever seen the term “nude biking” used together in one sentence. This certainly helps that local battle cry of “Keep Austin Weird” http://www.keepaustinweird.com.

On-the-other-hand there is nothing weird at all about promoting “green transportation” and a healthy life-style. To that end more and more cities and spending moneys for cycling byways. The trick, for lack of a better word, is parking those bikes. Sounds odd, I know, but think about it. Those bikes need a place to park too and not much real estate is devoted to this in Austin (even on the UT campus). It’s kind of like going to a 50,000 seat stadium and there’s only two bathrooms (for men and women) with ten stalls in each. OPPS!

I hope these cycling advocates in Austin have the foresight NOT to overlook this small but significant point. The more parking dedicated for cyclists the more likely others will commute finding a variety of savings which will become intrinsic over time… nude biking notwithstanding.