Ike told me to take a hike so I have not been able to update the news. As of this afternoon at 4:50 we got electrified so I can now attempt to catch up with the bike news and events. One thing I did check on, unlike when Rita visited East Texas this year’s Pineywoods Purgatory Ride October 4th is still on. I plan on riding. Look for me in the new Texbiker.net jersey.
R. Blake Ramick’s TX Tough Pictures
The TX TOUGH Grand Prix is a high-speed, circuit style bike race known as a criterium. Professional cyclists will race around a 1500-meter loop through Victory Park and the American Airlines Center. The event will feature more than 100 professional riders who will compete for the $25,000 cash. Dallas citizens will have the opportunity to watch riders reach speeds up to 50 mph as they fly through the streets of Dallas.
Link to the pictures on Flickr.com
TX Tough by R. Blake Ramick
City of Austin Bicycle Program Looks for Photos
You may have heard this request before, but since I have received no pictures (that’s ZIP, ZERO, NONE, NOTHING, NIL, ZILCH), I am imploring you to please, please send us your pictures.
Here is the original request:
The City of Austin’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Program is updating its Bike Plan and is looking for some great photos of citizens riding their bikes in Austin to include in the printed and online versions of the Plan. If you’d like to submit a photo to be considered for inclusion, please see the following guidelines:
• Photos should be in a JPG format. There is a 2MB size limit.
• Please identify where the photo was taken and the names of the people in the photo.
• By submitting photographs to the City of Austin, you represent that you are the owner or have permission from the owner to do so at no charge for editorial use. You further represent the photos are not manipulated insofar as depicting reality and have not used electronic means to introduce or remove content from the photograph. You authorize The City of Austin, the Public Works Department and the Pedestrian and Bicycle Program any of its agents or affiliates to publish and republish the photo in either print or electronic versions of the Bike Plan, but not to sell individual reproductions of your work. You retain ownership of the work and in no way surrender any copyright. You also agree that you as owner or artist of the offered work may be identified as such when published, and that there is no guarantee of publication made by acceptance of your submission.
You say…hey, great Nadia, I’d love to submit my pictures, just how do I go about doing it?
Submit pictures:
1. Log on to www.flickr.com
2. Sign in with user name: coa_bike_program
3. Use the password: Bicycle (with a capital “Bâ€)
4. Upload bicycle pictures like crazy. We want pictures with helmets, without helmets, on recumbents, on tandems, riding up and down, and all around.
Thank you for your help in making this Bicycle Plan is an amazing text, but also a beautiful, zany document that represents our city.
Nadia M. Barrera
Bicycle/Pedestrian Project Coordinator
Department of Public Works
City of Austin
512-974-7142
(f) 512-974-7101
nadia.barrera@ci.austin.tx.us
Texas mountain bike racers were back in action
from MTBRaceNews.com
Texas mountain bike racers were back in action last weekend with the first round of the fall racing series. In order to avoid dangerously high temperatures in the summer, mountain bike racing in Texas is broken into two separate seasons, Spring and Fall. This weekend’s race at Rock Springs represents the first race of the fall season.
See the race results and some thoughts at MTBRaceNews.com
The next round of the fall racing series sends riders to Huntsville, Texas on the weekend of September 20-21st.