Austin Bike Blog one step closer to achieving sentience

While I was out getting my cheap drink on at the Airport Bar, talking shit and ripping my pants riding Boone's brand new brakeless, clipless, fixed gear tall bike, Elliot and Marcus over at the (ex-)Austin Bike Blog announced some big changes happening on their site. Don't worry, you're not losing anything, but you are gaining a whole big list of new features: profiles and reviews on EVERY bike shop in town, a handy how-to repair and bike maintenance guide, reviews of bike routes, coverage of races and events, profiles of local bike peoples (racers, shop owners, etc), all tailored to that wacky Austin audience they've been reaching out to for the past year. I'm telling y'all, forget Skynet, at this rate Austin on Two Wheels (their new moniker) is going to be the all-encompassing network that eventually achieves sentience and brings about the human-robot apocalypse.

They're also soliciting readers to submit their stories in an effort to greater cover the local scene. Pretty much like how you send me emails, but instead they want you to flesh it out and actually write the article around it. If you want to be heard this is a great outlet for it! Don't expect the same leniency on this site, I'm a dictator and I keep this shit on lock-down.

Unfortunately all this progress comes at a price, and that price is sponsorships, ads, and all the evil that goes along with it. I personally believe that money taints everything it touches, which is why I steal everything involved in the making, advertising and running of this website. I'm seriously hoping that they can stay above it all and keep up the good fight, as I've really enjoyed what they've contributed to the community. Best of luck fellas!

Go check out their write-up on the matter for a whole lot of superlatives and stuff like "fastest growing cycling site", it's good shit.

And guys, if you're gonna snag pictures/text for events from my site, is a little credit too much to ask? ;)