Remember the 14.5-million bike bridge? PeopleForBikes named it one of country’s best bikeways
Pam LeBlanc | www.austin360.com
Remember the rumblings that surrounded the opening of the bike and pedestrian bridges over Barton Creek and Loop 360 earlier this year? Despite all that, a national bike advocacy group has named the project one of the 10 best new bikeways in America. …
CYCLE provides bicycles for students who improve reading skills
By Rebecca Hazen | www.chron.com
Volunteers assembled thousands of bikes to be given to students in the greater Houston area after improving their reading through the program CYCLE (Changing Young Children’s Lives through Education).
About 7,000 Houston-area students received a new bicycle this week after improving their literacy skills during the first half of the school year.
CYCLE (Changing Young Children’s Lives through Education) has given over 150,000 bikes in the greater Houston area to …
Summit Bike Club
stllkckn | www.bikemojo.com
We wanted to get the word out that the Summit Bike Club, a two-time winner of USA Cycling’s MTB Club of the Year, is expanding in Texas, including the Austin area. The U19 and U23 programs have been up and running in Central Texas the past year or so and Summit is now creating a U15 Austin program. Information can be found at summitbikeclub.org and there is a season kit fitting and information session for U19 at Cycle Progression this Thursday, 12/21 from 5:30 to 6:30. Although not specifically for the …
15-year-old Plano girl last seen on red mountain bike found safe
Written by Claire Z. Cardona | www.dallasnews.com
Update at 11:55 p.m.: Chedana Chitralehkha has been found and is safe, police said.
Original item: Plano police are asking for help finding a 15-year-old girl who was not home Monday evening at the time she had told her father she would be.
Chedana Chitralehkha was last seen riding a red mountain bike. She …
At the Close of Dallas’ Year of the Bike Share, LimeBike Shares Some Numbers
Stephen Young | www.dallasobserver.com
Bikes, first silver and mustard, then orange, green and yellow, swarmed downtown Dallas this summer before spreading out. The basics are all the same: Bikes cost $1 per hour to ride, payable via a smartphone app. After a rider pays, a hefty security device unlocks, freeing the bike’s back wheel so the rider can pedal off to wherever he or she might wish. The dollars go to one of four companies — VBikes, with silver and mustard rigs; Spin, which has bikes with orange frames; LimeBike, which has lime bikes; and Ofo, with yellow stock. …
Lubbock physicians: Wearing helmets prevent bike-related head injuries
By ELLYSA HARRIS | lubbockonline.com
If you give a child a bike, medical professionals say he or she should wear a helmet when riding.
“From my perspective, accidents happen on bikes,†said Dr. Richard Lampe, chairman of pediatrics at the Texas Tech’s Health Sciences Center. “Bikes for children and adults are excellent for exercise, but they need to be ridden safely.â€
A properly fitted bike helmet can provide a safety net against injury to the …
Dallas City Hall says you’re not the only one tired of all those junky bike rentals
Robert Wilonsky | www.dallasnews.com
I counted 77 parked rental bikes on the walk to the office Tuesday morning — a one-minute, two-block mile trek from the Scottish Rite parking lot to the new News digs on Commerce Street. The bikes, either Ofo’s bright-yellow offerings or LimeBike’s yellow-and-green machines, were clustered on every …
Automotive Exhaust Might Be Worse for Cyclists Than We Thought
By SELENE YEAGER | www.bicycling.com
You may get a good workout on your daily bike commute, but sucking in air pollution from heavy traffic can cancel out any fitness benefits you’d otherwise gain from your efforts, according to a study published this month in The Lancet.
The study focused on walkers in high-traffic environments, but its findings …
Cowboys players donate bikes to Rockwall students
www.fox4news.com
ROCKWALL, Texas – A pair of Dallas Cowboys gave an early Christmas surprise to deserving students at Rochelle Elementary School in Rockwall.
Defensive ends Demarcus Lawrence and Tyrone Crawford donated new bikes and helmets to 60 kids as part of the 16th annual Academy Sports’ bike donation program.
The students are …
Texas Bicycling from Twitter
Keep The Superdrome in DFW!! – Sign the Petition! https://t.co/D24TXYdjap via @Change
— Catherine Moore (@Pigtailracer) December 20, 2017
This week we are contacting 311 about cars parked in bike lanes on Mission Rd. "Please increase… https://t.co/d3yPNABtrz
— The aatblog.com (@BikeSanAntonio) December 19, 2017
A huge thanks to everyone that worked so hard to pass the 2010 Mobility Bond package. As a result it funded the MoPac Mobility Bridges, one of two cycling facilities called out on America's 10 Best New Bikeways of 2017! #gobybike https://t.co/xbR3VP0ypw
— Bicycle Sport Shop (@BSS_Austin) December 19, 2017
Dallas City Hall says you're not the only one tired of all those junky bike rentals https://t.co/Vyn7k7q6AR
— Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) December 19, 2017
This weekend, with the support of @BikeHouston and @BikeLeague @CEMEX_USA launched #SaferRoadsTogether – a nationwide campaign to promote safe driving & bicycle riding awareness. pic.twitter.com/JwoJf5TnLZ
— League of American Bicyclists (@BikeLeague) December 19, 2017
#Austin bike routes named two of the nation's best. See where they are and how the city is hoping to expand more 🚲-friendly areas, on KXAN News Today on the CW: https://t.co/NKBZbDgv4O https://t.co/rTOOFKUQNS pic.twitter.com/i5ivWqwgRy
— KXAN News (@KXAN_News) December 19, 2017
New Event Added to Texbiker.net Calendar
New Event Tour de I hope I Make It – Borger, TX Tour de I hope I Make It at Borger, TXhttps://t.co/7vXKHKxQyF
13 Mile Charity Bicycle Ride 13 miles 8:45 AM $35 Door Prizes and et cetera
This is a charity ride in the Borger Texas Area being put on by t… https://t.co/GNMGlGlrut— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) December 19, 2017
