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from the San Antonio Express-News (full article)

by Moises D. Mendoza and Valentino Lucio
Express-News

Not long ago, Buddy Boren conquered cancer. Now he’s taking on Texas.

The wiry 64-year-old cancer survivor is biking alone across the state on a quest to raise awareness about the disease that kills more than 500,000 Americans each year and nearly killed him.

He’s also raising money for the Wounded Warrior Project, which helps soldiers injured overseas to transition to civilian life.

This is Boren’s sixth time on a long-distance bicycle jaunt.

Previous rides have taken the Dallas native around Texas’ perimeter, all the way to Los Angeles and even from Dallas to New York.

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from Lufkin Daily News (full article)

Lufkin residents craving a little bit of nature can visit the new 3.1-mile trail at Kit McConnico Park.

The Deep East Texas Trail and Route Access Coalition built the new pathway, known as a primitive trail because of its more natural aspect, for anyone interested in hiking or mountain biking.

Rick Ainsworth, who headed up the creation of the bike trail as a member of DETTRAC, compared the path to the type of trail a rider might see in a national forest or in Colorado.

from news.com.com

Now, U.S. cyclists can get trounced by some of the best riders in Europe without leaving home. With the Ergo Bike Premium 8i from Germany’s Daum Electronics, riders from around the world compete against each other over virtual versions of some of the sport’s storied race courses. Riders gather at a particular time, pick a course and go. In a ride I witnessed, riders from Germany and a few Americans went head-to-head on a simulated version of the bike segment of Hawaii’s Ironman Triathlon.

from The Valley Morning Star (full article)

By CLARISSA MARTINEZ/VALLEY MORNING STAR

Edward Robinson saw the countryside of France in August, by bicycle and in 88 hours. Robinson, 43, an attorney in Harlingen and a San Benito resident is a randonneur — a long-distance cyclist — who completed the 1,200-kilometer race from Paris to Brest and back to Paris. The race began at the southwestern side of Paris and covers 600 kilometers to the port city of Brest on the Atlantic Ocean and returns along the same route.

Bikely has a Google map of the route at this link.

From The Brownsville Herald (full article)

By VICTORIA MANNING, THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD

Buddy Boren had not ridden a bike since he was 17, but that didn’t stop him from riding one for good cause.

After surviving a tough battle with skin cancer, the 64-year-old Dallas resident wants to be an inspiration to cancer patients, encouraging them to stay strong in the face of the disease.

Boren spreads his message by riding a bicycle across Texas and the United States. He embarked on his sixth ride Wednesday. Departing from Brownsville, he plans to arrive in Darrouzett, Texas in two weeks — taking him from the southernmost part of the state to the northernmost.

In today’s Houston Chronicle Cycling Notebook, Dale Robertson reports that GHORBA has received two grants to expand the trails at Joe Barton Jr. Park in Conroe and Roy Burroughs Park in northwest Harris County. Joe Barton trails grow by three miles while new trails will be constructed in Roy Burroughs Park.

“The Greater Houston Off-Road Bicycling Association (GHORBA) has received a Texas Parks and Wildlife grant for more than $45,000 to build an additional three miles of multipurpose trails plus new bridges in the heavily wooded Carl Barton Jr. Park just east of Conroe. GHORBA President Mike Cumonski says it will pay a professional trail-building company to do the work but will handle all future maintenance using volunteer work crews.”

“GHORBA also received a $5,000 grant from REI sporting goods to develop new trails in Roy Burroughs Park in far northwest Harris County, near The Woodlands.”

from the Flower Mound Leader (full article)

by STEPHEN FASHORO, Staff Writer

Ensuring the safety of children is very important especially when there are riding a bike, skateboarding or participating in any kind of activity that requires a helmet.

Later this week, the staff of MaxHealth Family Medicine in Flower Mound will be giving away free bicycle helmets at the second annual Community Health Fair sponsored by the Christian Community Action Adult Health Center.

The free community wide event will take place from 9 a.m. to 2.p.m. Sept. 8 at 200 South Mill Street in Lewisville.