Upcoming Bike Road Races

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from bikereg.com these are races you may want to participate in or be a spectator:

Tunis-Roubaix IX
Presented by Texas A&M Cycling Team
Tunis, TX
Sunday, April 01, 2007

Heights Holy MackerelCriterium
Presented by Heights Baptist Temple and The Woodlands Cycling Club
Houston, TX
Saturday, April 14, 2007

University of Texas Cycling Race Weekend
Presented byUniversity of Texas Cycling
Austin, TX
Saturday, April 14, 2007 to Sunday, April 15, 2007

Medical Colleagues of Texas Road Race
Presented by Southern Elite
Coldspring, TX
Sunday, April 15, 2007

Fort Davis Hammerfest
Presented by Permian Basin Bicycle Assn.
Fort Davis, TX
Saturday, April 21, 2007 to Sunday, April 22, 2007

Texas H.S. State Championships & USCF Races
Presented by The Texas High School Cycling League & Jesuit Cycling
Fort Worth, TX
Sunday, April 29, 2007

James Bailey Memorial Criterium at Motorsport Ranch
Presented by Team Bicycles, Inc
Cressen, TX
Saturday, May 05, 2007

Mineral Wells Road Race
Presented by TBi and Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce
Palo Pinto, TX
Sunday, May 06, 2007

The Houston Grand Criterium
Presented by Texas Sports Federation
Houston, TX
Sunday, May 13, 2007

AT&T Austin Downtown Crits – USA CRITS Series Race #4
Presented by Team Hotel San Jose, Team SIX, and UT Cycling And Redbudsports.com
Austin, TX
Saturday, June 16, 2007

High school racing heats up in Texas

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Texas High School racing does not draw a lot of attention but that is not the case today when cyclingnews.com had a short blurb on the racing season. The mention is the last section at the bottom of the link above.

” The first-ever Texas High School Cycling League road series kicked off this spring with four events spread over two weekends. The high schoolers are getting a helping hand from Texas’ higher institutions of learning…”

Dale Robertson Proposes Adding a Race to the MS150

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In today’s Houston Chronicle Cycling Notebook, Dale outlines how to add to the Houston-Austin MS150; have a road race.

Now I like road racing but I wonder how this would not stretch the MS150 organization’s manpower beyond their breaking point. 13,000 rider spread over 90 miles is a handful to manage, let alone a rolling enclosure of 100 to 150 racers. I think the people most likely to want to watch the race are the MS150 riders who will be occupied making it to Austin.

Give Dale your thoughts about this. His email is on the Cycling Notebook link above.