I decided to ride on Kingwood Streets today. My Lynskey Helix wheels rolled away at 1:46 PM. It was going to be a windy bike ride even if I just rode in Kingwood. At the start the wind was from the south at 14 mph and when I finished at 3:47 PM it was stronger with 14 mph and 27 mph gusts. No wonder it was so hard riding into the wind. I’m glad I wore a long sleeve jersey and a wind jacket. The temperature was 71 and the wind made it feel a little chilly.
Not too long after I started as I rode through Bear Branch Village 2 cyclists came out of a side street and passed me. You can see them in the video. I saw some other bicyclists and 1 more cyclist.
Weather: start 72, humidity 63%, dew point 59, mostly cloudy, wind S14 mph; finish 71, humidity 68%, dew point 60, mostly cloudy, wind S 14 mph gusts 27 mph.
After 3 days riding inside it felt good to be back on the road. I thought today’s ride would be around 20 miles but I added a couple of streets that I don’t normally include and ended up riding 25.74 miles. This brought my week total to 172.48 miles and the month’s road miles to 258.1 leaving 42 miles to reach my 300 mile goal for January. Combining road and virtual miles the month totals 393. January 2023 year to date continues to lead years 2011 through 2022.
1-15-2023 SportTracks Week Bike Rides Summary
On most bike rides I don’t think too much about Strava local legends but today I rode on Adams Street to build up my number of rides in the last 90 days to recapture that local legend. Weather permitting this coming week when I ride north I’ll include Adams Street. I set a Strava PR on Pin Oak Creek Sprint – Northbound (1:30) off of Mills Branch Drive.
1-15-2023 Strava Bike Ride Overview Kingwood Streets1-15-2023 Strava Bike Ride Map Kingwood Streets1-15-2023 Strava Weekly Relative Effort
Good morning! Hanging out with the Pedal to Pacific team. They are raising awareness about sex trafficking through a 1,700 mile bike ride down the pacific coast. We’ll share their story tonight on @fox7austinpic.twitter.com/dkmzDKizEc
AUSTIN, Texas – Pedal the Pacific, a nonprofit group raising awareness about sex trafficking, is getting ready for its 1700-mile bike ride down the Pacific Coast.
"We thought why we don’t we do something when we graduate to spread awareness about this subject, so our friends and family have to ask us why are we doing what we’re doing," says Savannah Lovelace, co-founder of Pedal the Pacific.
With no cycling experience, Savannah and two other friends decided to ride their bikes down Seattle to San Diego.
How incredibly awesome just to ride OUTSIDE on a beautiful day! I’ve been without my “Red Mistress” for the last week due to the fact that my SRAM Red eTap rear derailleur just mysteriously quit working. Thankfully #VicMaitland Wrong Greg loaned me a Tarmac Disc Sl5 to ride in the meantime. Today’s ride had a nice turn out, and was once again put together by David Patterson who I’m very grateful to. I am also very grateful to Perry Stegall for stopping to wait for me at the beginning of the ride when my computer wasn’t functioning properly. He then bridged us back up to the group at a record pace! As always, I am most thankful to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for allowing me to return to this sport that I love, and for yet another safe ride with great friends
Of course, I had to get a photo as we reached the summit of “The Old Tunnel” also called The Bat Cave, which is really an old railroad tunnel for The Old #9 train which I love!
Great ride with the athletes I coach. Some got bike upgrades. Some thought we needed to call out bumps. ? “Hey we ride gravel” ?? . Everybody had a great time.
New bike detector on the MKT trail! We don’t have to push the button any more. (And yes, this is a typical signal queue on a nice Saturday.) pic.twitter.com/er0WKdNyhJ
And a new crossing at Houston Avenue in the works! That’s a median so bikes can pause halfway and so that cars can’t turn left. Both make this a lot safer. pic.twitter.com/exDmGAtv5W
Pedal the Pacific is getting ready for its 1700-mile bike ride down the Pacific Coast, and this weekend the team of ten people from nine different US cities will meet for the first time in Austin. https://t.co/FUBdDSHrBA
Cold start to our ride this morning and have taken note last couple of months, rides below 35 degrees, my lungs have a hard time breathing in the cold air
Good morning! Hanging out with the Pedal to Pacific team. They are raising awareness about sex trafficking through a 1,700 mile bike ride down the pacific coast. We’ll share their story tonight on @fox7austinpic.twitter.com/dkmzDKizEc
For a change of scenery for today’s virtual bike ride I moved to Rouvy. I tried Rouvy once before back on November 16, 2019 when I uploaded the GPX file from one of my routes. Today I chose one their routes, Avenue of the Giants, in California. Rouvy doesn’t create a fictional world but uses video from the actual roads on the selections I saw. My other ride didn’t have video, just the route map with an icon moving as I rode. Avenue of the Giants is 19.88 miles long with 610 feet of climbing. It is mostly flat which is one reason I chose it since I wasn’t sure how it managed the smart trainer resistance. I think my trainer put the resistance at 100% and I didn’t see a setting to change it but there may be one. I don’t know much about Rouvy’s settings. I got out of the saddle once on a short climb. I don’t think any climbs exceeded 4%. I installed the Rouvy companion app on my phone but after a few minutes it stopped syncing with the ride. I need to learn more about the app. The sensors connected to my desktop computer via Bluetooth, not my phone like Zwift can.
No crowds like Zwift. I rode with Will, Emma, and Peter for the whole ride. I don’t know if they were actually riding or bots. I liked the left nearby riders panel that showed how much distance between me and them. The climbing feet count down instead of up like Zwift.There is a separate screen that shows the route when I clicked on the icon in the upper right corner. I didn’t see a camera control but a few times during the ride the camera shot changed. The information blocks in the upper left corner could be a little larger for my eyes and the distance to my monitor. They show the upcoming road profile % change and above that is my sensors’ data.
I don’t remember where it was in the ride when I deer ran across the road in front of me and for a second or two the riders in front of me disappeared because the deer would run through them. Traffic on the left passed and parked vehicles dotted the sides. I don’t know if there were sounds because I was listening to America’s Top 40 from 1-13-1973 on SiriusXM Sevenities on 7 channel.
What prompted me to try Rouvy was an email with a discount code for one month. It is interesting alternative. Another one I plan on trying is MyWhoosh. It is free with ads in the game. Routes appear to be in the Middle East. I’ll be back on Zwift for virtual rides too.
GPX in Relive.cc doesn’t follow the road exactly in the video below.
1-14-2023 Strava Rouvy Ride Overview Avenue of the Giants Cal1-14-2023 Strava Rouvy Ride Map Profile Avenue of the Giants Cal
A controversial bike lane project deep in Third Ward could be redesigned if the City of Houston is ready to pay.
Catch up quick: Construction is ongoing to transform Blodgett Street between Scott and Ennis streets from a four-lane road to two lanes of traffic with protected bike paths on either side.
Several residents, community organizations and District D City Council member Carolyn Evans-Shabazz raised concerns late last year over traffic and lack of engagement and have been trying to stop work on the project.
Driving the news: After hearing from community members, Harris County Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis, whose office is funding most of the project, sent a letter to Evans-Shabazz and Mayor Sylvester Turner that said the project could be redesigned if the city forked over half of the remaining bill, plus the cost of the redesign — about $8 million to $9 million.
According to PAPD, on Jan. 5 at approximately 7:39 p.m., a 28-year-old white male on a bicycle was reportedly struck by a vehicle in the 3100 block of 39th Street (westbound). The driver of the vehicle left the scene. The victim suffered “significant,” but non-life-threatening, injuries.
Anyone with any information concerning this hit-and-run accident is asked to call Det. Thomas at (409) 983-8639 or Crime Stoppers of SETX at (409) 833-TIPS (8477). Tips can also be made online at 833TIPS.com or via the downloaded P3 TIPS app.
THE WOODLANDS, TX – The Woodlands Arts Council recently unveiled its latest piece of art in the township; their very first ‘Give Back Bike Rack,’ a piece of art installation that serves as a public bicycle rack on top of its artistic presence.
James Stilwell, president of The Woodlands Arts Council spoke at an outdoors gathering at the main entrance of Town Green Park, site of the new installation that was entitled Tokens of Gratitude.
“We’re here at Town Green Park for the unveiling of the Give Back Bike Rack, our first art bike rack in The Woodlands,” he said in an exclusive interview with Woodlands Online. “We have had quite a number of public art pieces in The Woodlands with benches in parks and around The Waterway and Hughes Landing, and we decided …
38-year-old Geoffrey Shafer was hit by a car while riding his bike off Culebra and Arcadia Creek. https://www.kens5.com/embeds/video/responsive/273-6e12336d-a917-4f07-841b-d331caa82cce/iframe
SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio man was hit and killed while riding his bicycle on Culebra Road. His body was left on the side of the street.
That was four months ago.
His mother and father hoped for answers over the holidays, but the person responsible for their son’s death is still walking free.
For the first time, Virgil and Paula Shafer are speaking out about their son’s case. They are …
Work is slated to be completed in the spring on a project to reduce car lanes and add bike lanes to a portion of 11th Street in the Heights.
The project is expected to increase safety and multimodal connectivity and add safer crossings and on-street barriers for separated bike lanes.
Crews are working to add refuge islands at Nicholson Street, Columbia Street and Northill Boulevard as well as high-visibility crosswalks on Oxford Street and Beverly Street.
Failed to even do one lap, but hey-ho, was a lot of fun…some new roads…great tailwind outbound…you can guess the rest…excellent lunch at the bakery in Bellville..
According to Evans-Shabazz’s staff, they received at least 50 emails and as many phone calls from District D residents saying they definitely *do* want the bike lanes. https://t.co/USdDtegR3Ypic.twitter.com/pplqydvdqJ
Polk Street in East Downtown is such a transformational project. I also saw a person with a bike at Polk @ Cullen bus stop waiting for @METROHouston bus. Transforming streets where all residents feel safe is a positive step towards addressing equity. @hcpct1pic.twitter.com/nkRCvDXlnx
In our continued efforts to be a great resource for information about Dallas trails, we have taken our map and made it … really, really big! pic.twitter.com/1qQJahH63I
Last Call for the Harmonie Haul Gravel Grinder! Outstanding route option of 35, 48 and 70 miles. Non competitive option is FREE for Club Spinistry members. Marked routes, neutral water tables, after party included. Link in Bio. pic.twitter.com/sh8MU8ItIR
