Cove House Classic Bike Tour – Copperas Cove, TX

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Registration: Before August 9th – $20, After August 9th and on-site is $25, Tandem teams add $10. Registration on-site opens at 6:30 am.
Event Start Location: First Baptist Church, 300 W. Avenue B, Copperas Cove. 254-547-3717
26, 42, 50 & 63 mile routes.
Event Proceeds Benefit: The Cove House Emergency Homeless Shelter.

Sponsored By: Cove House & Bike Central, Texas (Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce)
Cove House is a non-profit ministry that provides food and shelter to the homeless with the goal of helping them to return to an independent lifestyle.

Enjoy scenic routes on lightly traveled roads with plenty of rest stops and support.

Registration: Before August 9th – $20, After August 9th and on-site is $25, Tandem teams add $10. Registration on-site opens at 6:30 am.
Event Start Location: First Baptist Church, 300 W. Avenue B, Copperas Cove. 254-547-3717

For details/directions and registration form call 254-547-3717 or email: pastor@fbccove.netThis email address is being protected from spam bots, enable JavaScript to view it. or visit the web at www.copperascove.com and click on Bike Central

Sun & Ski Sports to Open 2 Stores in D/FW Area

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from the Houston Business Journal

Barry Goldware thinks now is the time to open their first new stores since 2001. Even though retail stores in general are suffering through the current slowdown the real estate market is attractive. The new stores are at Plaza at the Parks in South Arlington and the Park Area.

Sun & Ski Sports supports many aspects in the bicycling arena.

A Tale of 2 Bike Commuters in Temple

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from the Temple Daily Telegram

by Fred Afflerbach Telegram Staff Writer

Forget the spandex shorts, yellow jersey and colorful helmet. This blue-collar biker on his daily commute does just fine wearing cotton and a cap. Dodging dogs, broken glass and sometimes road kill, he travels 26 miles, four days a week, riding a plain, black mountain bike.

Sometime last spring, Thomas Hill pledged to his co-workers he would buy a bicycle and ride it to work when gas hit $3.50 per gallon. That day soon came, and he shunned his Ford Ranger pickup for a two-wheeler.

Read more about Thomas and the other rider at the Temple Daily Telegram

All the Way from Eygpt to Ride the HHH

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This rider must get the award for traveling the farthest to ride in the Hotter’n Hell Hundred later this month in Wichita Falls. According to the story in the Wichita Falls Times Record News, “Jay Hightower, an American geologist living in Egypt, will test how the training he does with the Cairo Cycling Club amid the pyramids stands up to the Hotter’N Hell Hundred this year.”

link to the full article at the Wichita Falls Times Record News