Texas Bicycling News for November 20, 2023

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Video: Houston Crash: Cyclist flies through the air after crashing into car in Southwest Houston

By Annita Freeman | www.fox26houston.com

HOUSTON – Houston police are investigating a hit-and-run crash in Southwest Houston involving a bicyclist.

Police responded to the intersection of Houston Avenue and Winter Street around 9:15pm and found a man who was riding his bicycle critically injured. …

WebXtra: East Texas Trail Advocates kick off annual 5×5 mountain bike event

KLTV 7 | www.youtube.com

KLTV 7?s Avery Niles speaks with the president of the group, Lynnette Wood, about the series and what the money donated benefits.

Associa Donates 300 Bikes To Disadvantaged Kids

www.globenewswire.com

DALLAS, Nov. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Associa, the community management industry’s largest company, is pleased to announce that its 1st annual Big Bike Giveaway charity event was a huge success. Thanks to a $50,000 donation from the company, 300 North Texas kids will receive a brand-new bike this Christmas. Approximately 275 Associa team members and executives spent their day at the company’s Client Shared Services Center assembling the bikes.

The assembled bikes were then handed over to North Texas non-profit organizations for …

HTXCX Continues to be Awesome!

Greater Houston Cycling Foundation | shoutout.wix.com

CX Under The Sun #2 After some iffy weather early in the week cleared up conditions for CX #2 were perfect! The updated format of 3 races reduced field sizes to manageable levels helping the event officials and volunteers, lead by TJ, do a great job of delivering the event on the day! Thank you!

I want to also extend a big thank you to our sponsors, please keep them in mind for any Black Friday and Christmas shopping you have coming up!

Top Secret I have heard faint rumblings of a one off CX Under the Lights coming in December so stay tuned for that! – Don’t tell anyone I told you!

We are also working on a mechanism that would allow riders to do more than one race however we have to be considerate of field limits for safety and officiating. We don’t want people to miss out completely. More on that soon. …

Upcoming Rides

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Trek West U Bridges Tame Tuesday Tuesday, November 21, 2023 @ 6:30 PM

TREK WEST U | TUE GROUP C Tuesday, November 21, 2023 @ 6:15 PM

FoF Whole Foods Tempo Tuesday Ride Tuesday, November 21, 2023 @ 6:30 PM

Morning SBux Crew (Tues) Tuesday, November 21, 2023 @ 7:30 AM

MCC TUESDAY MORNING RIDE Tuesday, November 21, 2023 @ 6:30 AM

Urban South HTX Taco Tuesday Tuesday, November 21, 2023 @ 6:30 PM

Trek Memorial Tuesday Tuesday, November 21, 2023 @ 7:00 PM

Trek 15-30 Mile Shop ride Tuesday, November 21, 2023 @ 6:10 PM

Cycling Addicks Tuesday Ride – 27 Brittmoore – Hempstead Tuesday, November 21, 2023 @ 6:30 PM

Woodlands Wholefoods #1 Tuesday, November 21, 2023 @ 6:30 PM

Active Cycling Ride – Short Wednesday, November 22, 2023 @ 5:30 PM

JL Wednesday Power Hour Wednesday, November 22, 2023 @ 6:00 AM

The Boot ReBooted Wednesday, November 22, 2023 @ 6:30 PM

Justice League Tuesday Night Ride Wednesday, November 22, 2023 @ 7:00 PM

UBG 26 mile Wednesday Night Wednesday, November 22, 2023 @ 6:30 PM

Trek Sugar Land Telfair Loop Wednesday, November 22, 2023 @ 6:00 PM

Ramen Social Ride- Iza Robata Spring Wednesday, November 22, 2023 @ 7:00 PM

Thanksgiving Eve Gator Appetizer Wednesday, November 22, 2023 @ 7:30 AM

NWCC Hump Day Ride Wednesday, November 22, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

Trek West U Bridges Thursday, November 23, 2023 @ 6:30 PM

Turkey Day Roaster Thursday, November 23, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

MCC THURSDAY MORNING RIDE Thursday, November 23, 2023 @ 6:30 AM

JL & MTHCC Turkey Day Ride Thursday, November 23, 2023 @ 7:00 AM

Look Pro Go Kind of Slow Thursday, November 23, 2023 @ 7:00 PM

Gobble Gobble Gravel! Thursday, November 23, 2023 @ 7:30 AM

TREK WEST U | BEGINNERS (THU) Thursday, November 23, 2023 @ 6:15 PM

UBG Thanksgiving Ride Thursday, November 23, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

WOODLANDS LOVE & COFFEE RIDE 25 (weather permitting) Friday, November 24, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

Chappell Hill Calorie Burn Friday, November 24, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

UBG Black Friday ride Friday, November 24, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

Chappell Hill Calorie Burn Friday, November 24, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

FOF Turkey Ride – B52 Richards Friday, November 24, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

Chappell Hill Calorie Burn Friday, November 24, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

Chappell Hill Calorie Burn Friday, November 24, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

Chappell Hill Calorie Burn Friday, November 24, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

Chappell Hill Ride Friday, November 24, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

RRR-Saturday 50 Saturday, November 25, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

NWCC Saturday Zube Saturday, November 25, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

Saturday Miles 2.2 Saturday, November 25, 2023 @ 7:00 AM

UBG Saturday – 23 miles Saturday, November 25, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

Cycling Addicks Saturday Morning Coffee Ride – 47 Delices de Maurice Saturday, November 25, 2023 @ 7:00 AM

Sienna Sunday 36 | New Pearland Bicycles Sunday, November 26, 2023 @ 7:30 AM

UBG Sunday – 35-50 miles Sunday, November 26, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

NWCC Sunday Starbucks Sunday, November 26, 2023 @ 8:00 AM

JL Light 26 thru Meridiana Sunday, November 26, 2023 @ 7:00 AM

Sun & Ski – The Woodlands Sunday, November 26, 2023 @ 7:30 AM

Sun & Ski – The Woodlands Sunday, November 26, 2023 @ 7:30 AM

JL Monday Power Hour Monday, November 27, 2023 @ 6:00 AM

Zwift Rebel Route Litus Fugit With Mistakes

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Last week in the Zwiftinsider.com email Eric showed the new Zwift Rebel Route Litus Fugit based on the new Southern Coast in Watopia. Since then I waited on an opportunity to ride it. Today was the day. The weather outside was warm (78) but random light rain moved through several times. I wrote down the turn by turn information for the route, got dressed and started the ride.

The turns starting from The Big Ring route: (the video shows the turns along with several mistakes I made.)

  • Left to Southern Coast
  • Right to Southern Coast
  • Right to Mayan Loop
  • Left to Mayan Bridge
  • Left to Mayan Loop
  • Straight (Left) to Jungle Loop
  • Right to Southern Coast
  • Right to Desert Flats
  • Straight (Right) to Desert Turnaround

The route distance: 37.9 miles with 882 feet elevation gain. I rode 32.3 miles with 925 feet elevation gain. I did achieve a Strava 3rd fastest time on Going Coastal (35:51).

I wasn’t sure about riding the full route which I think would be my longest Zwift ride. The climbing wasn’t too much. I’ve climbed much more than that in Zwift. Turn by turn instructions don’t include all of the turns that are on the route which is where I made several mistakes. When I saw it was a mistake I made a u-turn to get back on course. I think all of those are in the video. Most of the mistakes were on the Jungle Loop when turns came up to leave the Jungle Loop and I took them thinking they were right. If the turn doesn’t have the name and direction don’t take it. I stopped the ride on the way back before I reached the Desert Flats right turn. The maps below show the full route from VeloViewer.com and what I actually rode.

11-20-2023 VeloViewer Route Map-2 Zwift Watopia Rebel Route Litus Fugit
11-20-2023 VeloViewer Route Map-2 Zwift Watopia Rebel Route Litus Fugit
11-20-2023 SportTrack Ride Map Zwift Watopia Rebel Route Litus Fugit
11-20-2023 SportTrack Ride Map Zwift Watopia Rebel Route Litus Fugit

Comparing the maps my problems began around mile 18. The loop I rode is several miles longer than the Veloviewer.com route. I enlarged the problem sections in the maps below. I rode miles 19 through 24 off the route. I don’t remember the turn that got me in trouble., maybe it shows up in the video.

Enlarged section of the VeloViewer.com map showing the route
Enlarged section of the VeloViewer.com map showing the route
11-20-2023 Strava Ride Summary Zwift Watopia Rebel Route Litus Fugit
11-20-2023 Strava Ride Summary Zwift Watopia Rebel Route Litus Fugit

Texas Bicycling Action for November 19, 2023

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Video: East Texas Trail Advocates kick off annual 5×5 mountain bike event

By Avery Niles | www.kltv.com

EAST TEXAS (KLTV) – This week kicked off the third annual 5×5 event, hosted by East Texas Trail Advocates, which is a chapter of the International Mountain Bike Association. This series invites mountain bikers to experience five different trails across East Texas that are five miles or less. KLTV 7?s Avery Niles speaks with the president of the group, Lynnette Wood, about the series and what the money donated benefits.

Saturday afternoon at RCP with the daughter.

Average Texas MTBer | www.youtube.com

Not a fast ride, but a fun one. She’s always getting better. Especially for not being on a trail in a couple months!

Squabble Creek Trail in Rockwell. Two days in a row!

Average Texas MTBer | www.youtube.com

Best thanksgiving break ever! Heck yeah it is! I wish I had more time off! Another great ride for Mikayla. So happy with how she’s doing.

Lake Georgetown The Dragon 26 Mile 2-Day Recon Hogg Segments East & West on a CO-OP DRT 1.1

Just Me MTB | www.youtube.com

A bit of a long video but fairly good coverage and a little archaeology thrown in. These are the chunkiest trails so far on the 26 mile, I expect similar from Cedar Breaks to Sawyer, my next and last segment for the full Lake Georgetown tour. I wonder if I had a better experience if on a full suspension cause it was rough on this little hardtail, but with exception of the most chunkiest I did manage to plow through most of it. Some new tech progression was made and I completed the mission so, a good day.

Reached November’s Goal Biking Kingwood’s Streets And Trails

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A delayed start on the bike ride because I watched the UCI world Cup cyclocross race from Troyes France after getting home from church. Once that was over I got ready to ride. The ride followed Kingwood streets and trails with me aboard the Lynskey Helix bike. The purpose was to ride at least 21 miles to reach my 360 road mile goal for November. The last 2 years I didn’t reach my goal and I didn’t want to repeat that this year. To be fair the missed goals resulted from traveling for Thanksgiving. Mission accomplished today as I biked 21.83 miles. The later started allowed the temperature to go up a couple of degrees but it felt chilly in the shade until I warmed up. The began at 2:04 PM and I finished at 3:47 PM. The sun was starting to move down below the taller trees and the SE wind increased to 14 mph from 10 mph at the start. I wore a long sleeve jersey under a short sleeve one to offset the wind chill. It worked mostly. Overall weather: Start 72 degrees, humidity 68%, dew point 60.5, mostly cloudy, wind SE 10 mph; Finish 71 degrees, humidity 72%, mostly cloudy, wind SE 14 mph gusts 16 mph.

11-19-2023 SportTracks Goals Status
11-19-2023 SportTracks Goals Status
11-19-2023 Week Bike Rides Summary
11-19-2023 Week Bike Rides Summary