AWESOME opportunity to look amazing...

UPDATE: Nadia just mentioned that the flickr site has reached it's bandwidth maximum, but if you want to submit more pictures, just email them to her at nadia.barrera@ci.austin.tx.us. She asks that you do it during business hours so that she may download them and then delete them to keep her mailbox from overflowing. You know how it is...

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I know for a fact that 99% of the bikers in Austin are incredibly beautiful and sexy, and the other 1% is made up of me and a couple other skeevy dudes who aren't eligible for this, but for the rest of y'all I just found out about an awesome sounding opportunity to get pictures of your amazingly badass looking selves in some City of Austin literature. Holy run-on sentence, batman.

Nadia Barrera, bicycle superhero extraordinarie, Project Coordinator of the City of Austin Bicycle Program, and all around bike community supporter is in need of y'alls help! I normally don't call people out like this but YOU PEOPLE OWE THIS CHICK. BIGTIME. Me too, so I'm gonna be sending pictures as soon as I can find someone with a decent camera to take them. She puts it better than I can so check it:

All,
You may have heard this request before, but since I have received no pictures (that’s ZIP, ZERO, NONE, NOTHING, NIL, ZILCH), I am imploring you to please, please send us your pictures.

Here is the original request:

The City of Austin’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Program is updating its Bike Plan and is looking for some great photos of citizens riding their bikes in Austin to include in the printed and online versions of the Plan. If you’d like to submit a photo to be considered for inclusion, please see the following guidelines:

• Photos should be in a JPG format. There is a 2MB size limit.
• Please identify where the photo was taken and the names of the people in the photo.
• By submitting photographs to the City of Austin, you represent that you are the owner or have permission from the owner to do so at no charge for editorial use. You further represent the photos are not manipulated insofar as depicting reality and have not used electronic means to introduce or remove content from the photograph. You authorize The City of Austin, the Public Works Department and the Pedestrian and Bicycle Program any of its agents or affiliates to publish and republish the photo in either print or electronic versions of the Bike Plan, but not to sell individual reproductions of your work. You retain ownership of the work and in no way surrender any copyright. You also agree that you as owner or artist of the offered work may be identified as such when published, and that there is no guarantee of publication made by acceptance of your submission.

You say…hey, great Nadia, I’d love to submit my pictures, just how do I go about doing it?

Submit pictures:

1. Log on to www.flickr.com
2. Sign in with user name: coa_bike_program
3. Use the password: Bicycle (with a capital “B”)
4. Upload bicycle pictures like crazy. We want pictures with helmets, without helmets, on recumbents, on tandems, riding up and down, and all around.

Thank you for your help in making this Bicycle Plan is an amazing text, but also a beautiful, zany document that represents our city.

Nadia M. Barrera
Bicycle/Pedestrian Project Coordinator
Department of Public Works
City of Austin
512-974-7142
(f) 512-974-7101
nadia.barrera@ci.austin.tx.us

I've seen the usual pictures in these types of publications and they're L-A-M-E. What better way of representing our city than with a bunch of pictures of some sweaty, tattooed, dreadlocked, shaved head, tight pants, breezy skirted, spandex-wearing, tall-biking, tandem-riding, fixed gear free-styling, BMX flying, incredibly amazing bike freaks? The wackier the pics the better, though I'm sure they're drawing the line at nudity. Ah well, such is life.

DO THIS. Instant bike karma will be yours and the next car that would have hit you will miraculously avoid you AND be shat on by a bird, AT THE SAME TIME. I'm serious.