The 10 day bicycle festival, Cyclesomatic, will be hosting events for all ages and types of riders. With that in mind, on the evening of October 2nd, the 75208 bike group will be leading a ride from Downtown to the Texas Theatre, and will be hosting the film B.I.K.E, geared toward the underground bicycle community. […]
As part of our week long Cyclesomatic Bicycle Festival, BFOC presents the third group ride in our history themed series, Hellhound On My Trail. This time, we’ll be highlighting the blues and western swing past of Dallas. Once again, we’ll begin our ride at Dealey Plaza and the grassy knoll at 2:30PM on Saturday, October […]
(Portland, Oregon) Dallas’ former bike coordinator is on another tirade against Alta-Planning, the award winning bicycle planning firm based in Portland, Oregon. We felt it would be good to provide everyone with a bit of the history here, as it’s a fascinating story. If you do a search on CycleDallas’ site for “Alta”, you pull […]
The deadline for vendors entering the bicycle swap meet planned for Cyclesomatic, Sunday October 11th, is quickly approaching. The Urban Bazaar vendor deadline is today, but we’re asking the bicycle swap meet vendor deadline be a week from now, so be sure to go online and fill out an application. Cyclesomatic Bike Swap – Oct […]
We’re so excited to see all of the new (and old) groups coming out and advocating for bicycling in DFW. It seems like a new ride is being announced every other day. It’s a very positive sign for the greater development of bicycle culture in our city. To highlight a few (though I’m sure we’ll […]
A BFOCer forwarded us this interesting article on the prices of bicycles in bike-obsessed cities.
(A green streets poster produced by the City of Portland as part of the Environmental Services Green Streets Initiative.) The website, Planetizen, is putting out a fascinating series of articles on Complete Streets, titled “Rethinking the Street Space: Why Street Design Matters” (Part one, Part two). In it, the designers note: “In the past two […]
Just received a note from the owner of Bishop Street Market, that they’re offering BFOC cyclist discounts on their PURE line of filtered sports water bottles. These are regularly $15, but they’ll be made available to BFOCer’s for $10! Here’s the details from Michael, owner of BSM: “It is a sports bottle made with biodegradable, […]
It was great to see so many people out last night at the OCBC grand opening party. After cake and beer, everyone pedaled over to Tradewinds for more drinks and karaoke. Fun news for the evening was that Phil, OC resident and owner of Lee Harvey’s, has officially assumed ownership of this local watering hole. […]
If you didn’t make it out to the incredible OCBC grand opening party last night, you missed a great time! One of the featured items at the new shop are these awesome hats made by Tara Tonini, Oak Cliff Milliner, who has been churning out some ultra-hip designs as of late. Swing by the shop […]
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