Texas Bicycling News for January 28, 2024
Reveille Peak Ranch 2nd Annual Downhill Slalom with MTB GRAND TOURS
Just Me MTB | www.youtube.com
Fun time last night at Reveille Peak Ranch for the 2nd Annual Team Trail Party Downhill Slalom with Brant Hatton of MTB Grand Tours and friends. First time there for me, rode some fun trails and jumps (no POV this time) and met everybody… cool crowd! Did his some jumps well, but did loose my feet on the way down of one jump, recovered but close enough to make me go hmmmmmm. Didnt lock in on the lippy launch.
Howdy from Amarillo Texas
StevenWray | ratrodbikes.com
Hey yall! My girls and myself clean up and lube bikes in our back yard and give them to people that need them. Every once in a while, when the bone pile adds up, we’ll do a “trashcan” build. Heres my favorite little cruiser. This sarted life as a Huffy USA Built Western Flyer Quasar 15 speed Mountian bike. We drug it out of a trash pile in a back yard. The tires, cables, and brake pads where roached, no life left in the bearings, rims where rusted through, so we did this! Now shes …
Mountain Biking at San Angelo State Park, Texas
Ken Simmons | www.youtube.com
Bike ride, birds, nature: White Oak/Buffalo bayou approx +/-13 miles Cars&Coffee https://t.co/ogfIdxCS7o #Meetup via @Meetup
— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) January 29, 2024
Trial of former Waco educator charged in hit-and-run death of Baylor student set to begin this week
By Tommy Witherspoon | www.kbtx.com
WACO, Texas (KWTX) – The trial of a former Midway school administrator charged in the 2016 hit-and-run death of a Baylor University student is set to begin this week.
Tammy Renee Blankenship, 56, is charged in Waco’s 54th State District Court with manslaughter and failure to stop and render aid, both second-degree felonies punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
She is charged with leaving the scene after hitting Baylor sophomore David Grotberg, 19, of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, who was riding a bicycle on Franklin Avenue.
A panel of 65 prospective jurors will report Monday morning to fill out questionnaires to …
RIDE SCHEDULE
Georgetown Cyclopaths | www.cyclopathsoftexas.com
RIDE SCHEDULE Short Rides Long Rides ex-Long Rides February 2024 Self Guided No Drop Tempo Start Time: 9:05am 9:05am 9:00am Day Date Meet at Miles Map Miles Map Miles Map Pierre’s Happy Birthday Ride!! Saturday 02/03/2024 Barking Armadillo 36 miles BAB36 49 miles BAB49 75 miles BAB75
Saturday 02/10/2024 Baptist Church in Andice 34 miles A34 44 miles A44 63 miles A63
Saturday 02/17/2024 Barrow Brewing 34 miles SA34 45 miles SA45.2 63 miles SA62.7
Saturday 02/24/2024 Georgetown Rentsch Brewery 36 miles GT36 42 miles GT42 64 miles GT64
Cycling Ware Road McAllen Texas Rio Grande Valley
Tigerholm | www.youtube.com
Cycling Rio Grande Valley McAllen Texas Ware Road from Nolana to Texas State Highway 107. This Ware Road is listed as a bike route and has bike lane signs.
Alliance – Keller – Ottinger Rd. With Chad & John. Garmin mount BROKE 2 miles into ride, glad I had it tethered. Fort Worth, Texas
Brian Waldrop | strava.com
Afternoon Ride – Beep The Woodlands, Texas
Chander Kasiraj | strava.com
Urban South Sunday Houston, Texas
Nate Eguia | strava.com
Southern Tier El Paso to New Orleans
By Cortney O. | www.crazyguyonabike.com
Day 17:Hondo to San Antonio: Busy roads, a little bit of France in Texas, and arriving in Alamo city Sunday January 28, 2024, 42 miles (68 km) – Total so far: 615 miles (990 km) We knew today would be hard. Navigating into an unknown big city on bicycles is always a little stressful.
We left Hondo and made our way over more hills to Castroville. The highway is still a four lane divided highway but the traffic has really picked up. The shoulder is wide but littered with debris. My tire was still giving me trouble but we just …