Texas Bicycling News June 2nd 2022

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Carry the Load Relay team visits Fort Hood

By Blair Dupre, Fort Hood Public Affairs | www.army.mil

FORT HOOD, Texas – The West Coast Carry the Load Relay team made a pit stop here at the Great Place, May 26, on their 4,400-mile ride from Seattle, Washington to Dallas.

Carry the Load was founded in 2011 with the purpose of honoring service members and first responders who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice. This year five relay teams traveled a combined 20,000 miles across 48 states, ultimately meeting up in Dallas on Memorial Day for the Dallas Memorial March.

“In the military community, you’ve heard the saying before that, ‘most people …

Trail Flow: The Newest Trails Coming to Illinois, Texas, Florida, and Aspen

By Singletracks Staff | www.singletracks.com

Trail Flow Thursday is a roundup of all the mountain bike trail related news of the week including new trail builds, advocacy, and planning. Do you have trail news? Email matt@singletracks.com for possible inclusion. …

… New jump line at Erwin Park

Erwin Park in Texas just added a mountain bike skills area with multiple progressive jump lines. The Dallas Off-Road Bicycle Association (DORBA) organized over 2,000 volunteer hours to help move and shape 7,000 tons of dirt. …

Houston rolls out a surprising ranking on list of bike-friendly cities in the U.S.

By Teresa Gubbins | houston.culturemap.com

Houston is a bona-fide car town, but how does it rank for biking? A new survey on bikeability gives Houston a fairly decent — and somewhat surprising — ranking for that cycling life. In a list of the top 50 cities in the U.S., Houston ranks No. 29 and boasts a bikeability score of 49.

Drilling down, that means the Bayou City has 0.3 percent of workers who commute by bicycle, a little below the average city’s 0.5 percent, with 0.4 bike shops per 100,000 people and 0.3 percent bike trails per 100,000 people. …

Texas Parks and Wildlife awards $4.8 million in recreational trail grants to Texas communities

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AUSTIN — During Thursday’s meeting, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved more than $4.8 million in grants funding 17 motorized and non-motorized recreational trail-related projects across the state.

One million dollars of the amount allocated today came directly from state Sporting Good Sales Tax funds dedicated to the Recreational Trails Program through a rider passed by the 82nd Legislature. The rider increased the total amount of funded projects this year.

The National Recreational Trails Fund (NRTF) supports recreational trail construction, renovation, and acquisition. The grants are funded from a portion of the federal gas tax generated by gasoline purchases for off-highway vehicles.

Thirty percent of the total NRTF grants must be earmarked for motorized recreational trails, while another 30 percent must be spent on non-motorized trail projects. The remaining 40 percent is discretionary.

Several projects funded in …

Houston Parks Board June Newsletter

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With MKT Bridge now open to the public, an essential component of the Bayou Greenway system along White Oak Bayou Greenway is restored. Working closely with the City of Houston, owner of the bridge, and Harris County Flood Control District, Houston Parks Board worked diligently to restore the bridge since intial repairs began in summer 2021. …

… Join us for a groundbreaking on the longest segment of Bayou Greenways, Brays Bayou Greenway! The new 7.67-mile greenway will connect Braeburn Glen Park to Arch Bishop Fiorenza Park, connecting more people to more parks, trails and more!

Refreshments and light bites will be served.

June: Buffalo Bayou is Buzzin’ Newsletter

Ann Olson, Buffalo Bayou Partnership

… Coming Soon: East Downtown Trail BBP is looking forward to the completion of the East Downtown Trail segment later this month! Developed in cooperation with the Houston Parks Board, Downtown Redevelopment Authority, City of Houston, Houston Parks and Recreation Department, and Harris County Flood Control District, this new addition represents a key connection between downtown and points east. Generous funding for this project was contributed by Barbara and the late Gerald Hines, Wendy and Jeff Hines, Sis and Hasty Johnson, and the Kinder Foundation through Bayou Greenways.

Weaving under and through buildings adjacent to the waterfront just east of Main Street and Allen’s Landing, the new East Downtown Trail furthers BBP’s goal to create connectivity all the way from Buffalo Bayou Park to the Port of Houston Turning Basin, serving even more Houstonians.

Stay tuned for news on when the trail will be accessible to the public. …

Video: Harmony English teacher and pro BMX rider featured in documentary with students

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HOUSTON – Omari Cato is a 5th grade English-Language Arts teacher at Harmony School of Endeavor-Houston. He’s also a professional BMX rider.

At Harmony, he used his background in bikes and his love of teaching to start a campus BMX Club where he teaches students how to ride, fix and maintain bicycles.

Cato and his BMX club are the subject of a new documentary.

Cato appeared on KPRC 2+ to share his story and provide information about the new documentary.

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A Basic, No Frills Bike Ride

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A basic bike ride today with no racing distraction to delay the start. The Cervelo Caledonia and I rolled away at 9:23 AM to ride the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. I hoped to ride far enough to get the week’s total to 150 miles and I did biking 33.60 miles by the time I finished at 11:54 AM. Earlier in the year most of my rides didn’t start before 11:54 AM.

Checking SportTracks this route is probably the one I bike the most often, 11 times so far in 2022.

6-2-2022 YTD Bike Rides Atascocita-Walden-Huffman
6-2-2022 YTD Bike Rides Atascocita-Walden-Huffman

The wind behaved by getting no stronger than 10 mph and the temperature was less than 90 when I finished. Weather conditions: start 79 (humidity 89%, dew point 75), mostly cloudy, wind NW 8 mph; finish 87 (humidity 67%, dew point 75), mostly cloudy, wind NW 10 mph. I may start using my Camelbak with the temperature getting close to 90 or above.

The AXS.SRAM.com ride report highlights: total moving time 2:26:31, 25 RD shifts, 35×13 riding time 1:25:17 (21.1 miles), 35×15 riding time 40:16 (8.5 miles). The light wind allowed me to use the 35×13 gears more.

6-2-2022 Strava Atascocita-Walden-Huffman Data Summary
6-2-2022 Strava Atascocita-Walden-Huffman Data Summary

Texas Bicycling News June 1st 2022

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San Antonio cruises to the middle on ranking of bike-friendly cities

By Teresa Gubbins | sanantonio.culturemap.com

A new survey on bikeability ranks San Antonio No. 30 in a list of the top 50 cities in the U.S.

San Antonio has a bikeability score of 45. It has 0.2 percent of workers who commute by bicycle compared to the average city’s 0.5 percent, with 0.7 bike shops per 100,000 people and 0.8 percent bike trails per 100,000 people.

The study was released by Clever, a real estate data company, and analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. National Centers for Environmental Information, Walk Score, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Vision Zero Network, Google Trends, and Yelp.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the West is best when it comes to bike-friendly cities — one-third of the …

Ride Bikes Thursday 6/2/22 from BikingATX

Thursday Night Social Ride June 2nd 2022 – Rider Appreciation Party Ride! from socialcyclingaustin

Greenbelt Trail on a Road Bike from dfwbike

Bikin’ Betties Ride – Fix-a-Flat Workshop at Yellow Bike Project June 6th 2022 from socialcyclingaustin

Search on for southeast Houston fatal hit and run driver

by: Rachel Estrada | cw39.com

HOUSTON (CW39) Houston police are searching for the driver of an fatal hit-and-run crash that happened in southeast Houston on Monday.

Police said a 47-year-old man was on a bike in the 300 South Cesar Chavez Boulevard near Wayside Drive about 2:15 a.m. on Monday morning, May 30. …

John Burton "Jack" Kendrick 1942 – 2022

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ohn "Jack" Burton Kendrick died in the home he loved in Fredericksburg, Texas, May 28, 2022. He was born in Denton, Texas on June 22, 1942, to Murray and Lura Kendrick. "Jack," as everyone called him, had a happy childhood growing up in Denton with his sister Karen, surrounded by the creative energy that comes from being raised by parents who were immersed in an artistic community.

He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 1965, and then moved to New York City where he was a copywriter for the Ted Bates advertising agency. He was a New York ad-man during the heyday of the original "Madmen" era. His most remembered advertising creation from this time was the slogan "How Do You Spell Relief? R-O-L-A-I-D-S." …

… Jack loved the outdoors, and was an avid hiker and backpacker, but he loved being on his bicycle most of all. At one point he was often putting in over a hundred miles a week on his custom-made steel road bike. He was proud to have an unbroken 37-year record of participating in the annual "Hotter than Hell 100" August ride in Wichita Falls, Texas. A lifelong copywriter, he loved any and all word games and puzzles, especially his beloved New York Times crossword.

Jack kept his cheery disposition right up to his last days. He always …

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No Rain But Muddy Frontage Road, GoPro Mistakes

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No bike races on GCN+ this morning to delay starting my bike ride. I gathered all my bicycling gear, filled the water bottle, woke up the Bolt computer, applied sunscreen, and rolled the Cervelo Caledonia outside. A quick trip to the street to pickup the recycling bin after the trash men emptied it and I was off at 9:34 AM. I noticed the street had a few damp spots and then I felt a few sprinkles. I hoped this wasn’t a sign I would be riding in the rain.

I chose the “Kingwood – SH 242 – Kingwood” route riding north and returning to Kingwood. Usually this route is 35 or 36 miles but today I added a few streets and the bike ride was 39.41 miles. This was the 4th time biking this route in 2022. The rides have been evenly divided on my 2 bikes. My goal for June is 800 miles and this is a good start. So far this week I biked 116.57 miles. A 200+ mile week is possible.

6-1-2022 YTD Bike Rides Summary Kingwood-SH242-Kingwood
6-1-2022 YTD Bike Rides Summary Kingwood-SH242-Kingwood

From the sprinkles at the beginning I grew more concerned when I reached the US59 northbound frontage road at E. Knox St. The road was wet and muddy but not raining. Also a street sweeper rolled by several minutes before my arrival stirring up the dirt into a nasty mud mess. I was determined to keep riding and prepared to wash the Cervelo when I finished the ride. When I stopped at the cemetery to visit my wife’s grave I saw how mud shows up on a black bike. I thought I rode muddy back roads. The wet frontage road was back to dry by the time I reached FM 1314. From then on no more wet streets but a gray cloud moved around some. I finished the ride at 12:44 PM and washed the Cervelo as expected.

While heading west on E. Knox Street at the feed store a large male peacock was strutting through the parking lot making loud sounds. I turned back to record him but I missed it due to the GoPro on/off mistake.

For some reason I got messed up recording video on the GoPro. I thought I turned it off when actually turning it on. Normally I record 10 to 15 minutes of the ride but today I recorded about 45 minutes, killing the GoPro’s battery before the end of the ride. It gave out in Valley Ranch, I think. I missed recording the rare cyclist on Loop 494 at TX 99.

Other than the sprinkles and muddy wet road the weather was typical. Humidity was higher than the temperature at the start making it seem warmer than it was. Weather at the start and finish: start 81 (humidity 87%, dew point 77), mostly cloudy, wind S 7 mph; finish 89 (humidity 64%, dew point 75), mostly cloudy, wind SE 10 mph gusts 18 mph. I thought the wind would stay below 10 mph but on the way back to Kingwood it felt stronger which must’ve been the 18 mph gusts.

AXS.SRAM.com ride report shows the overall moving time was 2:54:07 and a total elapsed time of 3:10:03. I stopped at the Exxon station in Porter on the way back to refill my water bottle with ice and water accounting for some of the time difference. 47 RD shifts is higher than normal. I rode 1:39:40 (25.2 miles) in the 35×13 gears and 52:57 (10.2 miles) using the 35×15 gears. The rest of the time was in the other gears. Average power was 86 watts and the max was 413 watts.

6-1-2022 Strava Kingwood-SH 242-Kingwood Data Summary
6-1-2022 Strava Kingwood-SH 242-Kingwood Data Summary