Each of the 13,000 BP MS-150 riders has a story

Carolyn Gomez is riding the 180 miles from Houston to Austin — for the first time — this year.  Though never a cyclist, she was inspired to do this challenging ride by her mother Irene Valdez, who courageously has faced her life with MS for the past 14 years.  Her mother now uses a wheelchair [...]

Bicycle Sport Shop: Austin Bike Shop Interview

Bicycle Sport Shop is the behemoth of Austin bike shops. Whatever you want, they probably have it tucked away in a corner of their massive, warehouse-like central shop at south Lamar and Barton Springs.
Last month, I interviewed Leslie Luciano, Community Relations Manager, about the shop and got some quite interesting facts and tidbits about Bicycle [...]

Austin Bike Blog Profiles Brad Cason of KirkLee Bicycles

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series of articles we are doing to profile Texas handbuilt framebuilders.
Life is good right now at KirkLee. In just over 12 months, framebuilder Brad Cason has taken a  framebuilding business that was just an idea and generated a tremendous amount of buzz as an up and [...]

Houston Chronicle Cycling Notebook: Bike coordinator has desire to put out trail fires

Unlike the Dallas Bike Coordinator, Houston’s Bike Coordinator, Dan Raine, appears to be in favor of bike lanes and bike mobility. Also he still has the job.
Dale Robertson writes, “Dan Raine owns seven bicycles, and he knows most of the bike routes and trails in Houston as well as anyone because he’s on them all [...]

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