While most of Austin is stuck in traffic steeping with road rage as cars start growing moss and Delilah crackles softly with unwitting irritance, there are a few souls that are having fun riding their bikes. Much of the two-wheel insurgence in Austin is due to the Austin Yellow Bike Project, an all-volunteer non-profit community initiative which serves to equip Austinites with bicycles. The Austin YBP recently moved their entire 4500 sq. foot headquarters by “human-power” alone—no moving trucks or even pow-pow-power wheels—in a truly remarkable tour de force.
The Yellow Bike Project provides a space (1216 Webberville Road) and the equipment for the bikers that bear their sweaty brow to build and repair their bikes. The result is community-focused, beneficial, environmentally kind, and nearly free transportation. Austinites feel the love from YBP with their Bikes to Schools Program and their efforts to keep Austin healthy and clean. Now is Austin’s chance to show some love back. On Thursday, August 26, Austin is invited to turn down all the excess noise of the raging freeway, to shut off the ignition and let Delilah drift away to the nearest Dillard’s and experience the Yellow Bike Benefit Show in support of this really great collaborative. The Sour Notes (above), She Sir, The Boxing Lesson, White Rhino, and Searching for Signal will lay on the bike horns at Red 7 starting at 9pm for a night of music and spinning wheels.
–Lauren Hardy (YBP photo by Blake Gordon, The Sour Notes photo by Eric Morales)