Texas Biking News March 7th 2020

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Proposed CapMetro project includes subway system in Downtown Austin

Rebecca Flores, Daranesha Herron | www.kvue.com

… Austin drivers deal with traffic on a daily basis, but a new Capital Metro … Some people who ride the bus say this is what Austin needs. … Some locations could include bike shelters and electric vehicle charging. …

Cross Country Spring 2020

By Paul Mattison | www.crazyguyonabike.com

Fort Davis to Iraan TX: So glad it’s not raining

Thursday March 5, 2020, 111 miles (179 km) – Total so far: 1,095 miles (1,762 km) Back to better weather! Upper 60s and sun makes for much better riding. And almost no wind too! Stayed on frontage road to I-10 all day today until I made it to the 190 split. Iraan was only 15 from there. The theme for the day was wildlife. I saw more animals today (mostly dead, but hey…) than I have the entire trip so far. The only real encounter with live animals came just before I turned onto 190. 3 wild pigs blocked the frontage road ahead of me. I stopped, took a picture of course, and …

Iraan Tx to Eldorado Tx: Who said Texas was flat?

Friday March 6, 2020, 80 miles (129 km) – Total so far: 1,175 miles (1,891 km) Today was all about the hills. Lots of them! Beautiful weather for a second day was welcomed, not as much the headwinds. Ended up only doing 80 miles and ending up in Eldorado for the night First flat of the trip today. Happened when I stopped for a sandwich and rode into the grass off the shoulder. A giant thorn from a mowed piece of bush went right into the tire. I was setup tubeless so I pumped the tire back up and hopped it would seal… Rode for about …

Next Steps for the St. Johns Bikeway in Austin, Texas

A DUDE ABIKES | adudeabikes.com

Last month your faithful cyclist and semi-regular bicycle activist (moi) attended a City of Austin open house. Today they sent out a follow-up notice, and I’m sharing it with you. It has some interesting approaches to making this street safer, but they aren’t a done deal yet. We have to make sure Austin doesn’t give up and cede the road back to cars. Even if you don’t live here, you might find the way they (we) do things here to improve safety for walkers and bicyclists interesting.

Sorry, with coronavirus rearing its ugly head, even leading to the cancellation of South by Southwest for the first time in its 34-year history, I should say …

Wildflowers + solitude

Venny Alub | www.strava.com

Highs: bluenonnets, new gravel roads, exploring more parts of Texas and putting in my longest solo ride to date. Lows: cigarette gas station and mental lull around mile 80. Timed it out perfect to meet John coming back from his race in Llano. Good day

Hill country hundy race 1st!

Colin Noo | www.strava.com

Speakeasy Crit w123!

Monica Merced | www.strava.com

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Baytown YMCA Gator Ride

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Getting up at 5:05 AM to go the ride is not my most favorite thing but throw in 39 degrees and windy, whoa! I left home at 6:31 AM, about a minute late, I arrived at Lee College around 7:20 AM to 48 degrees which felt colder with the wind. Before going to the gym to pickup my ride number and T-shirt I walked around the parking lot handing out Texbiker business cards. I gave away all I brought with thank yous from each person.

I decided using my phone for a bike computer is not my thing. The phone battery runs down before the rides ends (I switched to a backup phone at rest stop 3), the phone mount on the Canyon did not want to stay straight and at each bump it twisted, and the data display options are not what I want. So until my new computer arrives on Monday I will be Zwifting.

Weather dominated today’s bike ride and I dressed accordingly: shorts, leg warmers, long sleeve thermal jersey, long sleeve regular jersey, wind jacket, full finger gloves, and in case it warmed up half finger gloves but they never got used. At rest stop 2 I looked at the weather and saw the 17 mph wind, no wonder it was so hard pedaling but I didn’t see the power output on the phone. I started rolling at 8:05 AM and finished at 12:11 PM. Thank goodness for the Chick-Fil-A sack lunch at the finish. I sat in the Jeep after putting the Canyon Endurace away and ate the warm sandwich, Lays chips, and 2 Oreo cookies. Now I could drive home.

The video compresses the 51 mile ride into 16 minutes while it took me 3:31:59 to ride it.

The SportTracks activity page lacks power and cadence when I switched phones because I didn’t connect those sensors. I thought I did connect them at the rest stop.

The Strava ride activity covers two because of the split when I changed phones.

Texas Biking News March 6th 2020

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HCHSA Insider: BXM racer Tanner Sebesta won’t let ‘freak accident’ slow him down

Melanie Hauser | www.houstonchronicle.com

So much for best-laid plans.

Tanner Sebesta flew out of the gate at Central Texas BMX in Pflugerville last Sunday and, within seconds, was cruising to what seemed to be an easy win. No one was close.

Talk about great prep for this week’s USA BMX GoPro Nationals at Rockstar Energy Bike Park. Talk about the best way to put a crummy eight months of rehab on a hip injury behind him and sail into the thick of …

Frankenbike This Weekend… March 8th…

By RidingAgain | austinmountainbiking.com

There’s a Sunday Special Event Frankenbike coming up this coming Sunday… Being held at Austin Central Library. It’s the first time Frankenbike is being held at that location… Right near the river downtown. Support it if you can.

https://frankenbike.net/frankenbike-austin-special-event-sunday-march-08-2020-from-12pm-4pm-at-the-austin-central-library/

Bid on Trail in Marriot Hotel parking lot north of the Sam Rayburn Tollway Service Road to the Destination Drive and Grandscape Boulevard intersection

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Denton seeks feedback on new plans for roads, sidewalks, bicycle paths

By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe | dentonrc.com

f you’ve been stuck in freeway traffic just trying to get from the west side of town to the east, Denton’s new road plan could be for you.

The draft plan itself hits the road this month in a series of public meetings. At those meetings, residents can tell the city staff what they like, or don’t, about the 2020 Denton Mobility Plan. Road proposals for both the north and …

Cameron Park Blowout Mountain Bike Race Volunteer

by The Bear Mountain | www.eventbrite.com

Location Cameron Park Waco – Northern Gateway Lovers Leap and Cameron Park Drive Waco, TX 76708 Help needed to keep riders on course and help at start/finish line! Opportunities from directional support on the trails to helping with registration and everything in between. TMBRA is a 501c3 and can provide community service hours for schools and courts. Call 254-405-2518 or email rockbridgerunner@gmail.com for more information

11-YEAR-OLD BICYCLIST INJURED BY VEHICLE ON WOODGATE AND REAL DRIVE IN WACO

www.thebentonlawfirm.com

Waco, Texas (March 6, 2020)- An 11-year-old bicyclist was injured by a vehicle on March 4, 2020 in Waco, Texas. The accident occurred at around 6:45 a.m. on Woodgate drive and Real Drive. Officials reported that the vehicle backed up over the victim on the bicycle. Firefighters had to recue the child from beneath the vehicle. He was transported to a local hospital with unknown injuries. The crash is under investigation.

Our thoughts are with the injured victim and their family at this time.

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Boy, The Phone Is A Big Bike Computer Screen! And A Flat Tire?

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Got a phone mount to put on the Canyon Endurace bike while I wait for the replacement Wahoo Elemnt Bolt to arrive on Monday. I went to Tailwind Bicycles in Kingwood to buy the mount. They had three to choose from and I got the Delta Smartphone Holder XL. The smaller one was long enough but not wide enough to hold my Pixel 3XL.

The Holder XL has two mounting options: handlebar or stem cap. Neither of those work on the Canyon because of the aero shape of the handlebar and the unusual shape of the stem cap and bolt assembly. My solution: remove the insert from the out front Wahoo computer mount and put the stem mount there.

Another potential place was to turn the out front mount over and attach the phone mount to the GoPro fingers but that required too many changes to revert back once the Bolt arrives.

With the phone mount in place I got ready to ride and left at 12:52 PM to follow the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. With the phone out front I was sure to press the start button today at the beginning of the ride.

Weather during the bike ride: start 69 (26% humidity, 32.8 dew point), a few clouds, wind N 10 mph. Finish 72 (20% humidity, 28.6 dew point), partly cloudy, wind N 8 mph. I can’t believe the low humidity today. I hoped it would warm up so I left the leg warmers at home and wore shorts, long sleeve thermal jersey, regular gloves, and a jacket. I felt comfortable the whole ride except for a few times in the shade when a gust of cool wind hit.

The ride went well until about 23 miles when I ran over some sharp object with my rear tire with a big jolt. At the time I thought a pinch flat on the Lake Houston causeway was coming but the tire didn’t seem to suffer but by the time I got to 28.33 miles it was obvious a pinch flat happened. I thought this might be coming as I turned right off Kings River Drive and stayed on the greenbelt to cross the river rather the road like I normally do. About 200 feet later the tire wobbled and I reached down and squeezed it, flat tire. With all of the noise from passing traffic I decided to walk across the bridge to Kings Harbor on the north side to find a quiet place to fix the tire. It was a long mile but I made it. I pulled the tube out, pumped up the tube several times to locate the hole which was tiny and stuck a screw in it to mark the spot. The glue in the patch kit concerned me as I squeezed some out but there was enough to cover the area where the patch would go. I applied the patch, pumped the tube up and it held air. Back in the tire and mounted on the rim I pumped it up to hard enough that I couldn’t squeeze the tire. With the wheel back in the Canyon I put all of the parts in their place and dropped the tube of glue in the trash. While I was on the bridge one cyclist stopped to offer a tube or help but I told him I was okay. Two other bikers passed but didn’t stop.

Back on the bike I head to the finish. All went well until about 1/2 mile from the end the computer screen went black; the phone’s battery was dead. I hope that doesn’t happen tomorrow during the Gator Ride. I will save the battery until the ride begins. I finished the ride at 4:14 PM, later than planned thanks to the flat. Second ride in a row where the phone app didn’t get to record the complete ride.

Link to my SportTracks activity page.