Texas Bicycling News June 2nd 2017

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650 miles down for Texas brothers cycling the U.S. – 2800 miles to go

Jason Puckett | www.kvue.com

AUSTIN – It’s a journey with staggering numbers. In just ten days, Bobby, Dennis and Raleigh Jenkins have bicycled more than 650 miles from Seattle to Whitefish, Montana and they’ve still got more than 2,500 miles to go.
“At the end of the day, we’re just plum tuckered out,” Bobby said on a Skype call Thursday night – after having just cycled …

UT students set to ride 4,000 miles to fight cancer

By Jorge Rodas | kxan.com

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Most people volunteer or donate money to a cause they believe in. Starting Saturday, 70 University of Texas students are biking 4,000 miles to help in the fight against cancer.
Texas 4000 is a UT student and alumni run non-profit that has makes the 4,000 mile trek to …

FrankenBike #77 ~ Cedar Creek Cafe ~ June 10th ~ 8am till 3pm

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FrankenBike #77 ~ June 10th ~ 8am till 3pm
Cedar Creek Cafe
1034 W. 20th
Houston, TX 77008
We’ll be in the East parking lot.
This is such a lovely location.
Breakfast after 8 and lots of company for lunch.
Weather has been changing but not that hot yet. Stay posted.

One day out from 24hrs in the Canyon for cancer survivors update

by dcescott | www.reddit.com

Good morning. I’m psyched for the race! All packed up, two bikes, extra tires, tubes, kits, bringing it all. Weather report: 100% humidity at night. I will be soaked at 60°F . Most importantly, I am looking forward in meeting those who I am serving through this campaign in raising funds for their yearly budget.
On the fundraising side, I am beyond thankful for the contributions. I’m in the top 5. Lesson learned: Keep at it and use social media where you can. Reach out and don’t be passive. What sold me into this place? 100% goes directly to …

This weekend’s rides: Long Triple Bs! Red Horn!

by Thomas | steinerranchcycling.com

Saturday we will do a 61 mile Triple Bs route that takes us right by Dustin Dinh’s new boat rental place. The route is here: https://www.strava.com/routes/4732205 . After the ride we meet up at Lakeside for some discounted burgers and beer!
Sunday is our usual Coffee Shop ride to Red Horn. It is 50 miles and is at an endurance pace typically finishing around …

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Lawn Care Workers Under the Truck Bike Ride

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The sky looked threatening to the south but as I rode west and north on the “New Caney – Roman Forest – Valley Ranch” route the dark clouds tagged along. I felt a few rain drops but nothing to worry about. I altered the route slightly using the new exit from Kingwood through Woodridge Forest and including the Tavola loop from Roman Forest Blvd. The totaled 38.32 miles, a mile or less than usual.

Home construction in a couple communities I rode through continues making me wonder where are the buyers coming from. Some of this may be from the opening of the Grand Parkway last year.

Wheels started rolling at 11:21 AM with a cloudy sky and 83 degrees. I took a 20 minute break at the Stripes station at FM 1314 and Valley Ranch Parkway at 27.1 miles into the bike ride. This was mainly to let the dark clouds to south move to the west. I refilled my water bottle and sat under the pump canopy enjoying the light breeze cool me down and dry my jersey some. Not too far away several workers from LHLC took a break by laying under their truck in the shade.

With the dark clouds to the west I left Stripes riding through Briar Tree and Oakhurst before getting back to US59. All of the schools are out for the summer but it looked like the Humble ISD teachers still were there. I finished the ride at 2:34.

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Texas Bicycling News June 1st 2017

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Custom bike stolen from Cleburne’s favorite cyclist

Todd Unger | www.wfaa.com

CLEBURNE, Texas — It’s a safe bet that one of the more popular employees at the H-E-B grocery store in Cleburne is Alex Wilson.
At age 24, he’s always wearing a smile and ready with a friendly wave. He’s even more well-known around town, where Alex and a custom $3,000 bicycle nicknamed “Sarah” are always on the move.
The bike affords him the …

First Full Psycle Cycling Studio in Texas to open in The Woodlands

By Alicia Whitley | www.woodlandsonline.com


THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Full Psycle, a rhythm-based indoor cycling experience, will be opening its doors at Market Street – The Woodlands near H-E-B this summer.
Full Psycle chose Market Street to debut their first Texas location.
The Full Psycle experience incorporates an exhilarating 45-minute full-body cycling workout from start to finish, where riders can expect to burn between 550-900 calories.
Riders navigate hills, flats and intervals while moving to the beat of the music with weights.
Co-founders PK Harmeling and Shelly Scott created Full Psycle’s proprietary workout to …

2017 Complete Streets Progress Report

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On May 2nd, the Houston Coalition for Complete Streets hosted the City Planning and Public Works & Engineering Department for report on their work in building Complete Streets. 70 people representing Coalition organizations, management districts, and city departments attended the meeting. We learned that the City of Houston is now critically not putting car through-put as the number one priority, but rather evaluating mobility as a whole. New design standards will be put into place to make this routine, along with better community engagement and regulations. One example of this is …

Heights Blvd. – Bayou Connection

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Good news – BikeHouston advocacy supports Tx-DOT in building new high comfort Heights Blvd. to Bayou trail connection in coming months!
Find project details in the below presentation given to the Houston Heights Association by BikeHouston and TxDOT. With any questions or ideas please email Jessica at jwiggins@bikehouston.org.

BikeHouston Comments Submitted on Lower Westheimer Project

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Lower Westheimer, from Shepherd to Main street is under design. The City decided that this special corridor deserves special attention to ensure a design for the street rebuild fulfills the potential of the street. To this end they are doing more public engagement to make sure they get it right. Find all the details on the project here. BikeHouston has been engaged during this process to ensure the needs of people on bicycles are considered. We submitted the following comments to the City on 5-31-17. …

Goodbye-Hello with Mary & Jessica

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Mary Blitzer is handing over the baton to Jessica Wiggins. The leaving and coming BikeHouston Advocacy Director share a passion for cycling and encouraging other people to ride their bikes too.
Mary joined BikeHouston in the fall of 2014 and took the leading role for the passing of the new Houston Bike Plan with determination and stamina for the long haul. Jessica Wiggins first encounter with BikeHouston was a summer job two years ago. After a temporary move to …

A Word From Our Director………. John Long

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Thanks to Mary Blitzer. Bike Houston’s advocacy director is moving on. In Mary’s three years at BikeHouston she’s done so much to impact our city. Her most notable achievement is the Bike Plan — the first comprehensive bike plan adopted by the City of Houston in twenty-four years. Clearly she did not get that done single-handedly. Far from it. But Mary worked like a sheep dog to get it done, first helping to get the plan written and then helping to get it adopted by City Council. To do so, she connected with the planning department, city council members, traffic engineers, BikeHouston supporters, thirty non-profit organizations that belong to the Houston Coalition for Complete Streets, the members of the Bicycle Advisory Committee as well as …

The Racing Post June 2017 Edition

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Roaming Dark Clouds Start June Biking

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The Blue Norcross AL was the ride of choice on today’s bike ride on the “Atascocita South – Walden – Huffman” route. I rode 33.91 miles to start June off. My goal is 800 miles. Only 767 more to ride.

Another bicyclist passed me on Kings View Drive as I was on the way back home. At least two of us didn’t let the roaming dark clouds scare us away. The was cloudy with spots of dark gray clouds not too far away. The only time I felt a few rain drops (maybe 10) was while I rode west from Huffman on FM 1960. The humidity was high (71%) which meant my jersey was dripping whenever I stopped. The temperature at the 11:40 AM start was 79 and 83 when I finished at 2:30. The wind was not very friendly from the SE at 15 mph and 21 mph gusts (IAH airport numbers). This made pedaling hard. The Blue Norcross AL is about 7 pounds heavier than my Stradalli RP-14 carbon bike and the wider (700×32) tires with short knobby tread makes for high effort biking.

So far the PowerPod doesn’t accompany when I ride this bike. I have an extra handlebar mount but haven’t decided on using it. Maybe I don’t want to see the extra watts it takes to move the bike.

I took a 15 minute or so break at the Huffman Chevron. I sat under the pump canopy drinking ice water and watching the UPT truck unload gasoline in the station’s tanks. I wondered how the driver kept the right gasoline in the correct filler hole. He was moving hoses all over the ground connecting and unconnecting them.

The weather looks favorable for more bike riding tomorrow. The chance of rain dropped from what was showing earlier in the week.

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