Houston Bicycle Museum

Houston Bicycle Museum We need a building! Donate Online: https://www.houstonbicyclemuseum.org
We are a 501c3 organization. Help us spread the word about how awesome bicycles are.

You know it, we know it and we have been trying our little hearts out to share our enthusiasm with everyone we meet. We love cycling so much we are working towards constructing a museum dedicated to cycling history here in the heart of Houston’s museum district at Crawford and Calumet. Imagine a Houston where cyclists are taken seriously and cycling is seen as more than a mere recreational activit

y. We are learning new things everyday about cycling’s fascinating and often romantic, passionate story and are looking forward to sharing the impact of the knowledge we’ve gained. It’s the best way we know how to do our part to continue to support and grow our city’s cycling community. Let’s have a central hub dedicated to cycling. Houston is finally ready. We’ve got lots of ideas planned for the space. You can go to the museum to browse collections, learn skills at one of our workshops, hear from and meet master artisans, frame builders, advocacy soldiers, pro riders and people with stories you’ll never be able to read about in a book or on the web during a lecture series. It can be a place for you to have a safe, central meet up for your group ride, meet new groups to ride with, enjoy events or let us help you plan a cycling event or competition on our grounds. The museum will be for you. It will evolve as the community evolves and that can only mean bigger and better things for cyclists of all kinds. Please tell people that you want us to hurry up and get this thing built so you can hang out there! Your support is critical and we cannot tell you enough how delighted we would be to know that you want to help.

Dan Kan recently passed. He had worked at the Houston Bicycle Museum. There will be a memorial ride this Saturday, Sep...
09/04/2025

Dan Kan recently passed. He had worked at the Houston Bicycle Museum. There will be a memorial ride this Saturday, Sept 6. Follow the link below to the iCycle page for details.

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Remembering our mechanic and friend Dan Kan. A truck pulled out right in front of Dan on Watonga Blvd. as he was cycling to work on Tuesday morning and the resulting collision cost Dan his life.

Dan was 70 years old, worked 100 hours last two week pay period and rode 200-300 miles a week. Dan never complained. He rode rain rain or shine. He lived on trail mix and pistachios. Dan never called in sick. He would come in on his day off to finish bikes that he had promised to customers. Dan has every bike tool you can possibly get. He fixed bikes that other mechanics said were beyond repair. Dan once did a 24hr race and he completed something like 250 miles in 24 hours. ( I think it was 260 + something miles) Dan lived and breathed bicycles and cycling. He literally and actually rode bicycles until the moment he passed away. He died doing what he loved. If that truck had not pulled out in front of him, he would be fixing bikes right now. Dan was a cycling guru. We will miss him.

Best as I can tell, this is in the 1930s, on Main Street, Houston, Texas, looking south. There's the old Foley Brothers...
08/20/2025

Best as I can tell, this is in the 1930s, on Main Street, Houston, Texas, looking south. There's the old Foley Brothers as it was known back then on the west side of Main. That building was brought down around 2011.

Talking on a payphone in the Bronx in the 1980s
03/05/2025

Talking on a payphone in the Bronx in the 1980s

WHAT: BIKE STUFF SWAP MEETWHEN: Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 9am-6pmWHERE: iCycles, 4721 Watonga Blvd, 77092There are always lo...
11/16/2024

WHAT: BIKE STUFF SWAP MEET
WHEN: Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 9am-6pm
WHERE: iCycles, 4721 Watonga Blvd, 77092

There are always lots of vendors and buyers at the iCycles swap meets.

We could add Cycling Jousting!
06/25/2024

We could add Cycling Jousting!

06/14/2024

NAKED BIKING: Clothing-optional bike trends have become increasingly popular across the country, and San Antonio ranks in the Top 100 in the country. https://bit.ly/45jB397

Something like that...
04/09/2024

Something like that...

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