Texas Bicycling Action – August 13, 2023

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Police asking for help in identifying bicycle thieves

By Jason McNabb | kvia.com

L PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Crime Stoppers of El Paso are asking for your help in locating two men accused of stealing bicycles in west El Paso.

The value of the stolen bikes range from $300 to $5,997 and included motorized bicycles.

Investigators were able to obtain security camera footage of the two suspects.

Photos from that footage are attached to this article.

The first is a hispanic man described as thin, and has a mustache.

High-dollar bicycles stolen in series of burglaries in Kern Place, UTEP area

Daniel Borunda | www.elpasotimes.com

Thieves have stolen bicycles in a series of burglaries of home storage sheds and garages that were left unlocked in the neighborhood of Kern Place and the University of Texas at El Paso, Crime Stoppers of El Paso said.

There have been at least six similar thefts of bicycles, which ranged in price from $300 to nearly $6,000, including motorized bicycles, Crime Stoppers said. The unsolved burglary spree is the Crime of the Week. …

Commentary: Pumping the brakes around downtown bike lane bumps.

Melissa Murphy | www.expressnews.com

A motorist rides between the bike and traffic lanes while making a right turn at the corner of North Alamo Street and McCullough Avenue, on Aug. 3. Motorists try to avoid safety bumps guarding the bike lanes and some use the lanes as turning lanes.

Short neon-green posts and zebra-striped bumps that came with the new bike lanes on downtown San Antonio streets are part of an effort to protect bicyclists from vehicle traffic.

The posts and ground-level bumps were installed along McCullough Avenue and North Alamo Street, and in the intersection next to the Light Building, home of the Express-News.

Although installed with good intention, the new protected bike lanes have proved to be more than just a bump in the road for vehicles, especially in …

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Texas Bicycling On The Road – August 12, 2023

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Johnny’s Ride – Bully Pace with Miguel!! Woooooooooo!!! Missouri City, Texas

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Brian Stachitus (1955-2023)

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Brian Lee Stachitus, 68, of Cold Spring, and most recently of Boerne, Texas, died Aug. 6 with his wife and daughter at his side.

He was born Jan. 24, 1955 in Buffalo, the youngest son of John Walter Stachitus and Elizabeth Ann (Picton) Stachitus. He grew up and attended school in the Depew/Lancaster area near Buffalo and earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University at Buffalo. In 1983 he married Christine Pogorzala. …

… Brian loved to play ice hockey, and during his high school days would rise at 4 a.m. to get some rink time with his buddies. He was a newspaper delivery boy. Brian loved to garden. His pride and joy was his cactus collection; he found joy in planting seeds and acorns and starting new plants. He enjoyed bicycle riding and completed the MS 150 in Texas numerous times. Hiking in nature was a love of his, and a favorite place was Big Bend National Park. …

Houston offers a diverse, eclectic, and spirited cycling scene.

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With temperatures hovering between 50 and 80 degrees for much of the year — and terrain that’s pancake flat — Houston, a recipient of a bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community award from the League of American Bicyclists, is on its way to becoming a world-class bicycling city.

For easy spinning and sightseeing, it has a 345-mile interconnected bikeway network, from cool bayou trails to multi-use paths, plus 80 miles of bikeable nature trails. Need more? There’s a velodrome, 18 miles of singletrack, a mountain bike park, and a cyclocross course in town, and decent gravel riding within 90 minutes. …

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Reverse Tri – Ride Fulshear, Texas

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47th Metric of 2023 Deer Park, Texas

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Not As Early As I Wanted Biking Atascocita – Huffman – Walden

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Not as early of a start on today’s bike ride that I wanted but rode away at 8:05 AM on my Cervelo Caledonia bike. I rode the typical Saturday route, Atascocita – Huffman – Walden for 34.18 miles. That is a little above the average distance on the route in 2023. This moved the week’s total to 224.03 miles and August to 398.8 road miles, almost 50% of the way to my goal. Ten weeks in a row at 200+ miles. Year to date I am up to 6243 road and Zwift miles.

8-12-2023 SportTracks 2023 Rides Atascocita-Huffman-Walden
8-12-2023 SportTracks 2023 Rides Atascocita-Huffman-Walden

I look forward to seeing other cyclists on Saturday’s bike ride. For awhile I thought none would cross my path but the first one passed me going the other way on Atascocita Shores Drive. After that several others went by on Fairlake Lane and Old Atascocita Road. When I stopped at the Exxon station on FM 1960 for ice several cyclists rode through possibly on the way to the donut shop. One went inside the Exxon store for something as I left. Later on W. Lake Houston Parkway a group of cyclists gathered on the greenbelt trail by the YMCA but not sure why.

No change in the weather forecast as far as heat and rain. Starting early lowers the temperature a few degrees but ups the humidity to swimming level. By the time I finished at 10:57 AM it was 94 degrees but humidity was lower. I stopped on Old Atascocita Road waiting on another cyclist to pass and the wind actually felt cooling against my soaked jersey. Biking west over Lake Houston the 18 mph gusts made it difficult. Another cyclist (he is in the video) rode in front of me about 50 feet and he struggled with it too. Weather: Start 84 degrees, 87% humidity, dew point 79.7, mostly cloudy, wind S 6 mph: Finish 94 degrees, 59% humidity, dew point 77.6, partly cloudy, wind SW 10 mph gusts 18 mph. I finished before the forecast high of 102 to 104 degrees arrived.

8-12-2023 Strava Ride Summary Atascocita-Huffman-Walden
8-12-2023 Strava Ride Summary Atascocita-Huffman-Walden

Texas Bicycling Action and News – August 11, 2023

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February 26, 2021, Bulletpoint Films released a short documentary about the Bush Foundation’s 100k ride to help Veterans of the War on Terror. …

Answer Line: A bike follow-up

By Jo Lee Ferguson | www.news-journal.com

ANSWER LINE FOLLOW-UP: I recently responded to a question from a reader who was looking for someone who would take old bikes and fix them up to donate to children.

I’m still looking into a suggestion from one reader, but the News-Journal’s sales manager, Tracy Stopani, told me I should check with Dereck Yagle, owner of Flugers Bicycle and Outdoor Store.

Yagle fixes adult bikes to donate to clients of the Hiway 80 Rescue Mission or One Love Longview. Both …

Bicyclist critically injured in accident with tractor-trailer, Fort Worth police say

By Harriet Ramos | www.star-telegram.com

A bicyclist was critically injured after being struck by a tractor-trailer Friday morning in Fort Worth’s Far Northwest neighborhood, police said. Officers were dispatched to the 13000 block of Saginaw Boulevard shortly before 5 a.m. regarding a major accident, police said. The victim, a man, had been riding a bike in a public roadway when he was hit by the tractor-trailer. The bicycle rider suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, officials said. Traffic Investigation Unit detectives are investigating the accident. It’s not clear if the truck driver will face charges in connection with the crash.

Video: Fort Worth bicyclist fighting for his life after crash with tractor trailer

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FORT WORTH, Texas – A Fort Worth bicyclist is in critical condition after a crash with a tractor trailer early Friday morning.

Fort Worth police say that the adult man was riding his bike on Saginaw Boulevard, not far from Avondale-Haslet Road in north Fort Worth when he was hit by a tractor trailer.

The man was taken to Harris Hospital in Downtown Fort Worth in critical condition.

The rider’s name has not been released at this time.

Houston’s Vision Zero plans for safer pedestrian, cyclist paths in 2023

By Lileana Pearson | abc13.com

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) – The number of cyclist fatalities are on track to double in Houston compared to what we saw last year. Pedestrian deaths are also on the rise compared to 2022.

Vision Zero, the city’s task force working to get traffic deaths down to zero, tells ABC13 the city is building and expanding bike and walk paths as fast as they can. As more infrastructure is built, more people are excited about alternative transportation, but that also means more people are utilizing older and more dangerous routes.

In heart felt testimony at Houston City Council, Robert Grobe shared the story of the day he …

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