Austin Yellow Bike

EVENTS

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GREEN CITY FESTIVAL - Oct. 13 10a-4p at City Hall from

Saturday, October 13, the City of Austin will host its first Green City Festival from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at City Hall. Eleven City departments and 40 partnering non-profit organizations, including Yellow Bike, will provide a one-stop bonanza of green information wrapped in fun, music and interesting activities for the entire family. Everything you want to know about energy, water and resource efficiency will be on display. Enjoy educational talks, hands-on workshops and an interactive Kids Korner.

The festival will be partnered with the FUarmers market and children's museum on 4th Street. For more information view the event website.

Tour de Fat - October 20th! - New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat is happening again in Austin on October 20th at Fiesta Gardens from 11am to 6pm. Proceeds from the event will go to three Austin area cycling groups: Yellow Bike Project, Austin Cycling Association, and Austin Ridge Riders. We need 150 volunteers to staff various aspects of the event from ID checking to tear down. Some positions require TABC certification, which New Belgium will pay for. Please email us at if you are interested in volunteering. This has been a large fundraising event in the past and we would love your help in pulling it off (read more about the Tour de Fat).

KILL-A-WATT CHALLENGE - The Austin Chronicle and Austin Energy are hosting a contest to see who can reduce their energy bills the most this summer. Renters will compete against renters, homeowners against homeowners, businesses against businesses, and neighborhoods against neighborhoods to win prizes all summer long (view list of prize contributors ).

Many of us tend to think of our driving habits when we think of our contribution to global warming, but in fact it's our electricity habit that accounts for 39% of our carbon-dioxide emissions, while transportation accounts for just 33%. While we can't help you win this summer by helping you get on a bike, we encourage you to sign-up to see how much of a difference you can make off the road. Visit the Chronicle's Kill-a-watt Challenge page for details and sign-up .

Yellow Bike is supporting the contest with monthly prizes in the Neighborhood category. For the winners in the Neighborhood category for June, July, August and September, we will be hosting a private shop where residents of the neighborhood can come as a group to use the shop. They will have access to all of our shop services, tools and expertise to get their personal bikes repaired and ready for use this summer.

BIKE MONTH EVENTS! - Bike month is here! The Austin Cycling Association (ACA) maintains a list of city-wide Bike Month events ( View Schedule). Listed below are events that Yellow Bike is sponsoring.

YELLOW BIKE'S 10TH BIRTHDAY PARTY: May 19th 5pm-Midnight at Ben's Longbranch BBQ - We will celebrate our 10th birthday at Ben's Longbranch BBQ. We will enjoy the evening with early kids events, music, BBQ, Beer, Movies, a Yellow Bike release, and lots of friends. So far on the lineup are Cat Scientist, Opposite Day, Guy Town, The Hydemen, You Make Engine, with others to be announced. Ben's Longbranch BBQ is on 11th Street just east of IH35 ( View Map).

SHOP CLOSED SATURDAY MAY 19TH FOR YBP'S 10TH BIRTHDAY PARTY - Party preparations will be consuming. We apologies for the change in service.

Poster design by Doug Williams

BIKE TO WORK DAY! - This Friday May 18th is Austin's yearly Bike-to-Work Day. The goal of Bike-to-Work Day is to get as many people as possible excited about riding to work for their first time. After commuters see how easy, enjoyable, cheap, invigorating, riding a bike can be, we hope they form a life-long habit of it.

There will be FREE breakfast stations throughout the city serving from 7am - 9am. Yellow Bike is running a station in East Austin at our Treasure City shop located at 1720 East 12th St . Come find out what we are serving for breakfast! (View Photos of the Event)

Downtown: Whole Foods Market. 6th and Lamar.
Downtown: Wahoo's Fish Taco. 509 Rio Grande
Central: Wheatsville Food Coop. 3101 Guadalupe Street
North Central: Thunderbird Coffee. 1401 Koenig Lane
North: Buck's Bikes. Jollyville one block north of Oak Knoll.
North: ACA and Clif Bar. Shoal Creek Blvd. at the Far West Blvd. bridge
South Central: Bouldin Creek Coffeehouse. 1501 S. First St
South: Bicycle Sportshop. 517 S. Lamar
South: Jack and Adam's Triathlon Shop.
East: Yellow Bike Project workshop at Treasure City. 1720 East 12th Street

COMMUNITY ART AND BICYCLE CARNIVAL: May 12th 1pm-4pm at Kealing Middle School - In collaboration with Cycle Circus and Theater Action Project, YBP is helping organize a kid-oriented bike carnival. We will be giving away another 40 kids' bikes through our ACA and REI supported Bikes to Schools program. There will be music, a bike parade, stilts, face painting, ice cream, puppets, and prizes. Kealing Middle School is located in Central East Austin (View Photos of Event! | View Map).

BIKE ART SHOW: Gallery open from Tuesday May 8th to Sunday May 12th 3pm - 7pm - This year we are hosting our second annual Bike Month art show. We have invited artists to submit their bike related drawing, photography, sculpture, video, painting or anything else that vaguely deals with the subject. We look forward to seeing the unexpected once again from a large group of artists from the local cycling community.

Opening party will be on Friday evening from 7pm-Midnight. Afterwards, the art can be viewed from Tuesday May 8th to Sunday May 12th 3pm -7pm. Come celebrate the evening with Yellow Bike Volunteers, homebrew, and the artists behind the work. If you have a piece that you would like to submit, please email us. Gallery 1906 is located at the in the intersection of 3rd and Chicon ( View Map).

VOLUNTEER WEEK APRIL 30th to MAY 5th - May is bike month 2007 and will kick off the month with a volunteer week at our 51st shop. From Monday April 30th to Saturday May 5th all shops will be volunteer only. We encourage all to get involved and help make the project better. Tuesday the 1st if our monthly meeting and there will be no shop that night.

BEDICHECK KIDS CLASS CONCLUSION AND EVENTS - Everyone is invited to attend the WOW! event (Friday May 11th 5:30pm - 7:30pm) where students teach their peers and the public the real-world knowledge and skills they learned from their 11-week apprenticeship. Yellow Bike taught an apprenticeship on bike repair. It is amazing to see how excited kids can get about something that they have learned. The following day is a kid's bike drive and community bike ride where we want as many people from the cycling community to show up. Please join us and let the kids see first hand how easy and fun riding a bike can be can be! The ride will leave Bedichek at 10am and return at 12pm (View Map).

VOLUNTEER WEEK: Monday April 30th to Saturday May 5th at our 51st Street Shop - Instead of our normal schedule for this week all shop hours will be volunteer only. So set your personal projects aside and help the project out for a week. We will be fixing kids bikes for the school year's final Bikes to Schools giveaway, reorganizing and cleaning the shop, and getting yellow bikes ready for our birthday release. Call it a present for our very big birthday.

BIKES ACROSS BORDERS COMMUNITY BIKE SHOP - Bikes Across Borders has maintained a long running community bike shop much like the ones we run. Their large shop is an excellent and established resource for bike repair. We are posting the open hours of their shop on our website (see schedule) to increase the visibility and usage of their shop. We love to see community bike resources and are happy to provide any assistance to make them successful. This shop is located to the East of Pleasant Valley near 4th street (view map).

KEEP AUSTIN BEAUTIFUL CLEAN SWEEP EVENT: Sat April 21st 9am to 11:30pm - Clean Sweep is a morning event for Volunteers to clean up park space all over the city. A few of our volunteers will be representing YBP's efforts and leading some activities for the kids who show up to the volunteer party in Waterloo Park from 11:30am - 1:30pm. The cleanup event is taking place in city parks from 9-11am.

WORK PARTY AT 51ST THE STREET SHOP - Come help us out from 12-5pm on Saturday April 14th. We will be reorganizing the lofts and outside storage yards and would love any additional help.

SCREENING OF B.I.K.E. AT THE ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE BENEFITING THE YELLOW BIKE PROJECT - 2007-04-01 7:00pm -
The drafthouse has generously offered to donate 20% of its proceeds from the screening of B.I.K.E. to The Yellow Bike Project.

Click for Showtimes at the Alamo Drafthouse | see the trailer

B.I.K.E. is an exploration of the Black Label Bicycle Club and the wider tallbike subculture that has grown up around it. Comprised mainly of artists driven by anti-materialism and a belief that the impending apocalypse will render cars useless and bicycles in power, BLBC battles mainstream consumer culture and rival gangs for its vision of a better tomorrow. The film chronicles the trials of co-director Anthony Howard as he tries to become a member of the club. Excerpt from IMDb B.I.K.E. page.

2007-03-24 (Sat) 12pm-4pm - TREASURE CITY SATELLITE SHOP GRAND OPENING - Our new Treasure City Satellite Shop is finally open! We are open 3 days a week, on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday all this month. Our shop has 3 works stands and, as always, wonderful volunteers to h elp you with bike maintenance and repair.

We will have a Grand Opening at the shop on Saturday the 24th between Noon and 4pm. For the first two hours of the event we will be matching around 35 neighborhood youths with bikes donated and overhauled as part of our ACA and REI supported Bikes to Schools Program. Each bike will come with safety gear, a helmet and a light set. The bikes will be adjusted to fit the kids who receive them.

For neighborhood kids who bring their own bikes to the shop , we will be giving away any extra helmets and lights on a first-come first-serve basis. We will also perform a safety check on their bicycles and make any adjustments necessary. Volunteers will be on hand to teach basic bike safety tips to the kids.

For the remainder of event, from 2pm - 4pm, the shop will be open for people to work on their bikes and tour the new shop. The shop is equipped for minor repairs like replacing brake cables, fixing flats and greasing bearings. Complete overhauls and multi-day projects are more easily accommodated at our Main Shop on 51st Street.

We would again like to thank everyone who helped out with the bike powered move (watch video ) and the setup of the new shop. We couldn't have done it without you. Please come to the Grand Opening or stop by during open hours and see the new shop!

HUMAN-POWERED SATELLITE SHOP MOVE SUCCESSFUL!! WATCH VIDEO - On Saturday January 27th, the contents of the Wheatsville satellite shop were stowed and transported on roughly 40 bicycles tricycles, bike trailers, panniers, and backpacks to the new Treasure City shop. In only 2.5 hours the entire contents of the shop had been packed, transported 3 miles (view map), and unloaded at the new shop. It is inspirational what 40 people with a few pedal machines can do in so little time. Deepest thanks to all participated in making the move possible. (View Event Page)

Megan, who helped with the move, made an excellent video chronicling the event. Thanks, Megan

Video: Austin Yellow Bike Shop Move

2006-12-16 1:00pm - DECEMBER FAMILY OPEN HOUSE AND BIKE DRIVE - On Saturday, December 16th from 1-5 pm we will host a family open house and bike drive at our 51st street shop. We will be offering shop tours and spotlighting the youth oriented programs Yellow Bike helps to facilitate. Yellow Bike is involved in several endeavors to promote cycling among youth in a holistic way which emphasizes safety awareness, mechanics skills and cycling as transportation. Representatives from the Tools for Life, Citizen Schools and Bikes to Schools programs will be on hand to discuss their recent accomplishments and their exciting plans for the coming year. The event will also serve as a bike drive. We need used bikes of all sizes to serve as the raw material for our upcoming kids programs.

2006-10-28 - PEACOCK LOUNGE TO DONATE 10% SATURDAYS: Every Saturday the Peacock Lounge will be donating 10% of its bar sales to Yellow Bike with DJ John King will be providing the dance tunes. We will have a Yellow Bike release at the Peacock celebrating the first of the Saturdays (10/28).