Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 3rd
Waco Bicycle Club Rides
Thursday
Thursday Beginning Cyclist Ride
Thursday 05:30 PM
Road/beginner More
Cameron Park Beginner Mountain Bike Ride
Thursday 05:30 PM
Mountain/beginner More
Thursday Hewitt Park Road Ride
Thursday 05:30 PM
Road/all levels More
Lone Star Cyclists Mar. Club Rides
Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine
March 6, 2011
How Exercise Keeps You Young (and Prolongs Your Life)
Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has shown that exercise prevents aging in mice programmed to grow old rapidly (The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 22, 2010). The exercising mice did not have the expected shrinkage with aging of their…
Fatal auto-pedestrian accident in Orange County
by KFDM-TV News
ORANGE COUNTY- The Texas Department of Public Safety has released the name of a bicycle rider who was killed when the driver of a pickup truck ran into him from behind. The DPS says Kevin Caudle, 28, or Orange, died at about 8 pm Wednesday. …
Malone Wins Second Consecutive Marathon Champion Bike Series
by Blanco County News
This was the first race of the season for Dustin, who rides for Hammer Head Bicycles out of Austin. Bruce said all the racers who participated in the Texas Marathon Series wish to thank Hill Country Bicycle works for sponsoring the series. …
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 3/3/11 – 3/9/11
from Austin On Two Wheels
Dedicated to keepin’ yer Texas race dollars in Texas, The Muddy Outlaw Dash and Chainring Challenge is a 3.1 …. Austin and Texas Bicycle Framebuilders …
Armstrong youth team rolls into Solvang
by Santa Maria Times
The Austin, Texas-based team’s season starts March 31 and runs through … The team’s primary sponsors are Trek Bicycle Corporation and Livestrong, …
Ride with Bike Friendly Oak Cliff in the Mardi Gras Parade
March 2, 2011 in Bike News, Events, Oak Cliff
Ride with Bike Friendly Oak Cliff in the third-annual Oak Cliff Mardi Gras Parade. 105 people have RSVP’d on Facebook here, and more are welcome to pedal on up the day of. It’s a family friendly ride, so everyone’s invited. We’ll start at 4 p.m. at…
Cycling notebook: Critics make TPC put brakes on plans
from HoustonChronicle.com — Cycling by Dale Robertson
It would not be business as usual at Friday’s H-GAC Transportation Policy Council meeting. Advocates for better pedestrian and bicycle mobility answered an urgent call to arms and, by raising a measure of civilized Cain at the open-to-the-public session, they were able to stave off — for the moment…
(67 x 3) + 74 = 83
from Musings of Captain Justice by Gil Jones
If you don’t follow that math, it’s understandable. But if you take a geezer-squad of three guys 67 years young (two of them precisely that age) and one of 74 years, and put them on bicycles out to prove nothing, …
Houston Ride: Tuesday/Thursday West End Ride
from Texas Racing Life by Ken
Most of my training is done alone because I feel I can really concentrate on the correct intervals and duration. Sometimes I get really bored and want to ride/race with people on the weekdays. In Austin, there was always the Tuesday Nighter, a great group ride that would leave from downtown Austin and then race around a…