Mountain Biking for Women – Austin’s SportShop and Pure Austin gym host intro skills
from www.youtube.com  02:05
Kathy Karpinski of Bicycle SportShop’s women’s mountain bike team talks about the team and what it takes to get into mountain biking.

Bike MS Bay to Bay Tour long version | Jason’s Bike
by admin
This is my 1st time riding the Ms150 ride from Houston To Austin, Texas and i am proud to be riding for the Dow Team. And my mom and me and my dad all ride for Dow and we have one thing to say Dow is going to do better then Texas Bike …

El Oso Corredor: Age
by Tony Maldonado
Running Texas Hill Country Trails … Tony Maldonado: I have enjoyed running since childhood, but it was not until about 1989 that I became really active again after being challenged by my brother to complete a 100K bicycle ride. … 4 years earlier I entered him in his first race. He came in last in a field of about 25 kids, but he never stopped trying to run as fast as he could. I will always remember the smile on his face as he crossed the finished line while his name …

Team Tom’s Bicycles: Primavera 2010
by Jason
Unfortunately, Texas likes to place blue reflectors in the middle of roads to indicate the presence of fire hydrants and they love implementing fire hydrants. These are placed in the worst possible place for a bike race and were the …

Day 25: Del Rio, Texas, to Uvalde, Texas « Just Another Bike Ride  …
by brendanpleonard
Waitress: I could never ride my bike across the country. Brendan: I know, I’m actually not that into it, either. To San Antonio! Look who’s pedaling in the middle ring! And this is going uphill. Quite a day. That’s more like it. …

Michael Pincus’s Cycling blog: Lago weekend. cat 2/3s two 60 mile …
by Michael Pincus
Lago vista weekend, this was going to be the second year in a row that I completed the Lago course. Lago vista is a unique course because it is a very long climb followed by a very long and fast decent. Last year I hit a new speed record of almost 56 miles per hour. I headed up with Ronnie strange a little before noon on Friday to get to the races, which are about 30 miles west of A-TX…

Race To The Border 2010
from The cycling club at The University of Texas-Pan American
This Saturday March 6, 2010, will be the 1st annual Race To The Border 25 mile road race and bike tour
Over $2000 in cash Prizes
Pre-register this Friday at Wally’s bicycles from 5-7pm

Bike the Borderline: Licking Our Wounds
by Ant and Kat
Before clocking off for the night, we would like mention Russ and Laura once more; the couple we met in Van Horn, Texas who are cycling around the USA in the other direction. These guys are embarking on a crazy project and have posted a …

Technical courses greet racers at Texas Tech – VeloNews
by VeloNews.com
It was out to Lubbock this weekend for many collegiate cyclists in Texas and Oklahoma looking to compete in the first mass start events of the 2010 South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference season. Teams from as far away as Houston …

Cancer diagnosis leads to cross-country bike ride : North Texas Daily
by Arts-Life-Editor
When Jonathan Triantafyllou received a phone call last semester and learned that his close friend Philip Bayliss had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, he was shocked.

“He was 22,” said Triantafyllou, a music senior. “It shattered the idea of [invulnerability] you have at 20 or so.”

Jonathan Triantafyllou, a music senior, lays out the 4,500 mile cross-country route he and his friend will undertake on their bicycles in June. Their ride will cover 15 states and raise funds for their newly created nonprofit, Bike Towards the Cure. The money will go toward cancer research. Photo by Drew Gaines/Photographer. …

Math Has Bike: Us Vs. Gary Fisher
by Math
Five seconds into Saturday morning’s ride, about 20 feet away from cycling legend Gary Fisher, I fell flat on my face. A small cheer went up among the sizable crowd of riders, celebrating my hilarious failure. “Somebody had to be the first” they said, almost in unison. I’d taken a symbolic hit for the team, apparently, so I didn’t feel all that embarrassed by it–I just got up and brushed myself off. I’m still getting used to these damned clip-on shoes. …

CycleDog: Devastation in Ronam, Texas
by Ed W
(The following does not reflect in any manner on the city of Manor, Texas, and its bicycle ban. Huh-uh. No. Not ever.)

This is a transcript from the ten o’clock news broadcast.

The city of Ronam, Texas disappeared overnight, seemingly swallowed up by the earth itself in a cataclysm of Biblical proportions.

Billy Bob Ignatowski, Ronam city manager, was fortunate to survive the devastation through an accident of timing. He was out of town for a church convention in Dallas when news of the disaster reached him. He has this to say for local television:

I was astonished and horrified to see that story about Ronam…

Biking In Dallas » Welch’s Bike: The 1976 Schwinn Speedster
by Michael W. Hubbard
Welch’s Bike: The 1976 Schwinn Speedster
In Flamboyant Red, single speed, 24 inch frame. I call it “The Spirit of ‘76?.
Here is what it looked like when I bought it:

I found it here in East Dallas on Craigslist for $125.00. At the time, it was the most that I had paid for a used bicycle. The guy that I bought it from told me that he found it in his mother’s attic when he helped her move. It had apparently been owned by his step-father and had sat up there for almost 25 years. My version of one of those “barn find stories”. Check out the chainguard, it’s beautiful……..

Walburg Road Race, Walburg, TX
by tilford97
I thought we all were working together to make bicycle racing fun and safe. That detracted from the fun factor. Especially so early in the morning. There wasn’t the past wind. It never got over 15mph. But, after about a half a lap it started … Not the easy, sunny Texas weather I was hoping for. We’re racing 80 miles tomorrow at Pace Bend. I was 3rd there last year and have won it before. Should be interesting. Probably a little more aggressive racing tomorrow I’d guess. …

DFW Point-to-Point: Daily Violation
by Steve A
They fought long and hard here in Texas for a similar law, before Governor Rick Perry vetoed it. Texas Bike Coalition has a petition castigating him for that veto. If you want, you can go here and sign it. If you look, you will not find my …..

Discovering America on 2 Wheels: Leg 3A – Southeast Texas Loop
by Wills on Wheels
As I said in my “Data Dump” post, I’m working on a lot of different things right now… one of which is the concept of using my Trek 1500 Road Bike as my “touring bike” for the 1168 miles of Leg 3 from Santa Fe NM to Los Angeles / Hollywood / Malibu CA.

I’ll go into the details of what I’m doing on “equipment change / upgrade” in another post.

What I’m planning right now is an 8-day / 392 miles of cycling / 45 miles of hiking “warm-up / equipment checkout / get back in road shape” Southeast Texas Leg 3A. …

Magnolia Randonneur: Knee pain messes up 300k
by Michelle
Well, not the best cycling day.

Pat, Matt, Doug, LeRoy and I all started my Natchez Trace Lil Mountain 300 k in very cold 30 something weather. The forecast was for the temps to reach the low 60s. The start was very cold. I guess I was thinking 60 and not 30 at the ride start!

For whatever reason, I started having knee pain behind my knee at mile 12 of what would end up being a 159 mile ride. I am guessing I have started sitting lower on my seat and thus I am closer to the pedals which would cause pain behind the knee. I am also still having problems…

Cycling Diary: February 20th
by Cycling Diary
Oh gee. Didn’t get a chance to ride my bike last weekend. Crazy weahter in Texas. We received 8 inches of snow and it that is very unusual for this part of Texas. Actually I think it is very unusual for any part of Texas. …

Bike the Borderline: 1000 miles across Texas …done!
by Ant and Kat
There’s not much to say about today’s ride. The road was smooth, the journey was a short 32 miles and the wind was strong but thankfully didn’t hamper our progress too much. It has been a fascinating trip through the mountains, valleys, …

Bastrop State Park – My RV Talk
by whereigo
They tout a bike ride between the two parks, unless your in really good shape for a lot of up and down hills you may not want this ride. It is a road that is somewhat narrow but paved. But cars do use it too. …

Pedal Pushers: Allen Lane
by Roy and Christine
Allen Lane according to the road sign; Allen Road according to MapQuest. Take your pick because either route is a good one.

Saturday was lining up to be a good day to ride. The temperature was to be mid-60’s and the wind 13-15. Since our average wind speed is 12, what was new? So a ride was called for 1 pm to start at the old Toni’s Restaurant outside of Christoval. Allen Lane is a 7.4 mile stretch of hills with grades ranging from 6 to 12% with one or two stretches at 14%. It is an ideal location to train for rides that have hills as a theme. …

Michael Pincus’s Cycling blog: Walburg cat 3s 72 miles
from Google Alerts – Texas cycling by Michael Pincus
Walburg , one of the most miserable courses in the state of Texas, this was my first race in 2010 and I’ve been looking forward for it for several months. I left for the race after school friday with my old teammate Rich. We headed up our hotel and slept pretty good considering we were watching figure skating. The morning of the race we packed up and drove off to a burger king for some breakfast yatta yatta yatta. …

Walburg Classic Road Race
Mike’s Bike Blog
I started the morning with a good breakfast of red curry chicken, rice and eggs. The race didn’t start till 11:20 so I had more than the 3 hour window to digest and build my glycogen stores. I also got to Walburg, which is only 32 miles from my house with plenty of time to pin on my numbers and warm up. I wanted to ensure I was ready to go from the start so I warmed up for 30 minutes getting about 267 kJ out of my system. Moving forward with other races I think I’m going to employ…

Precinct 2 County Commissioner Lorie Grinnan running for re-election
by The Rockwall News
As the Bicycle and Pedestrian NCTCOG Representative, she said she is coordinating efforts to improve the County’s trail system and open space planning. Also serving as President of the Emergency Services Corporation, …

Super Squadra: On Top at Belterra
By Sarah
The annual spring circuit races at Belterra have treated our team quite nicely over the years. Phil landed our first ever team P-1-2 win at Belterra in 2008 and a we finished out 2nd place in 2009. We were able to leap back up to the top of the podium this year on yet another back-breaking course with many feet of climbing, a very strong field, and an extended warm up/ cool down to get the day to Walburg workload levels. …

Hoogstra: Texas Forts Trail advances toward the future
by Abilene Reporter-News
Partnering has long been recognized as an effective tool for a group of individuals to reach similar goals; from its beginning the Texas Forts Trail has sought to work with partners throughout the region and the state. This past year the Texas Forts Trail established a relationship with the Hotter‘N Hell Hundred and Wichita Falls Streams and Valleys organizations and co-sponsored a three day bicycle ride “The Texas Forts Tour.” Through this collaboration, numerous cycling enthusiasts…

Bike the Borderline: Lazing in Leakey
Ant and Kat
“Stop the Press” A rest day without doing laundry? We’re not complaining. Yesterday was sooo gut-bustingly difficult we just had to chill all day today. How those Tour de France guys do what they do is just unbelievable. And before any of you purists start mumbling under your breath in mockery of our comparison to the Gods of Cycling, you may want to know that yesterday’s cycling route was often used by the one and only Louis no sorry Neil no we mean Lance Armstrong for training and is still commonly used by USA Pro cyclists…so there. …

Did You Know?: Did You Know About Tour de Hood?
by silken
While watching Texas Country Reporter last night, we came across a great program taking place not too very far from us. It is called Tour de Hood . Dr. Veon McReynolds has in effect started an inner city cycling club. …

February 2010 in North Texas « Lone Star Travelers Blog
by joanie7
The popular off road bicycling trails have been closed and deserted for months and not expected to open back up any time soon. The lake is lifeless and uninviting with not a boater in sight. Every so often an intrepid visitor will head …