LPD officer seriously injured in bike accident by LubbockOnline.com Neal Brumley of patrol was [...]]]> Ride of Silence
by ConnectAmarillo.com powered by KVII
There are more and more bicycles on the road for different reasons, all the time and we do have a legal right to be on the road so we’re asking motors to …

LPD officer seriously injured in bike accident
by LubbockOnline.com
Neal Brumley of patrol was riding his bicycle on Slide Road south of the Lynn and Lubbock county line when a car hit him. He was transported by AeroCare to …

Texas  not so friendly to cyclists
by Austin 360 (blog)
By Pam LeBlanc | Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 11:01 AM For the second year in a row, Texas has sunk in the League of American Bicyclists’ list of Bicycle …

GIS Research & Map Collection: Cross-Country Bike Tour Uses BSU Maps
by MG
The GRMC also has a collection of biking tour maps that also proved to be useful. The students determined a route in which they could bicycle for part of the way and take hybrid trains to connect them to the next city: … By March the two had reached San Antonio, Austin, and Houston, Texas. Then the next stops were New Orleans, Louisiana, and Baltimore, Maryland. They biked from Baltimore to New York City and took the train back to Chicago. …

National Trails Day June 5
by Liberty Vindicator
Texans of all ages can explore the Lost Pines region as Bastop County and eight other organizations join state and local parks and other sites across Texas to celebrate National Trails Day on June 5th.

This year, a coalition of groups in Bastrop County is partnering for the first time to offer a large and diverse array of outdoor recreation activities for National Trails Day. Bastrop and Buescher State Parks, Lower Colorado River Authority’s McKinney Roughs and Lake Bastrop North and South Shore Parks, American Youth Works- E-Corp, Pines and Prairie Land Trust. Environmental Stewardship and Smithville Chamber of Commerce have joined together to offer trail work parties, educational experiences, guided hikes and historic walking tours to celebrate this national event. …

But if you managed to find your way through the detours and around the flooded roads out [...]]]> Austin towels off for Mellow Johnny’s race
from singletrack.com by Steve Frothingham
Steady rain — road-closing, trail-soaking, river-swelling rain — kept anyone from getting an early taste of the singletrack at Lance Armstrong’s Juan Pelota Ranch on Friday.

But if you managed to find your way through the detours and around the flooded roads out to the ranch, the rain gave an opportunity to chat with two of the Austin area’s most knowledgeable mountain bike racing experts on the eve of the weekend’s racing at the ranch. …

Pondero: Not the Ugliest Part of Texas
by Christopher Johnson
The Denton Turkey Roll ride was today, but that is not what this is about. Though invited to the Denton ride, I gave up on it after a busy week and a long list of waiting chores. Unexpectedly, I was able to persuade my sweet bride to shuck the chores for lunch in Muenster.
That means I was able to actually pre-ride the route of the December 19th, First Annual Fall Finale Forty-mile County Path Ramble. …

Beaudet tests the new bike facilities
by Austin 360
Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Program Manager with the City of Austin in Department of Public Works, has written about her observations of the new facilities recently installed. …

It is my pleasure to write about my experience riding the new facilities recently installed as part of the City’s experimental bicycle facility study, …

Motorist denies wrongdoing in fatal bicycle accident
by San Antonio Express
The Bruehlers were pedaling along a wide shoulder of Texas 16 when Sullaway’s Ford F-150 King Ranch struck them after veering off the road just north of …

Russ Sikes: Humanizing our urban space one park at a time
by Dallas Morning News
This year for example, federal spending on pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly infrastructure among America’s top 52 metropolitan areas comes to a whopping …

City of Austin gets Bicycle Friendly Business award | Fit City
By Pamela LeBlanc, League of American Bicyclist…
The City of Austin is currently the only city in Texas to receive the award and is one of only three government entities in the nation designated. BFB businesses make bicycle friendliness a core element in the workplace and use …

Travel West Texas – National Geographic Adventure Magazine
TWO: Pinto Canyon Road winds through the stunning Chinati Mountain backcountry, but it’s for high-clearance vehicles only (not hard to come by . . . this is Texas). Soak in the hundred-degree pools at Chinati Hot Springs, … THREE: Rent a knobby-tired bike in Terlingua, and buy some extra tubes, from Desert Sports ($30; desertsportstx.com), then set out on the Contrabando Multi-Use Trail System’s 30 miles of singletrack or the 600 miles of fire road running through Big …

Lost and found in the middle of Houston
by CultureMap – Houston,TX,USA
Flecks of blood started to appear on my sweat-drenched pants as I watched the railroad ties thudding away beneath my bike tires. The thorns I’d wandered through a few minutes earlier and a chain-link fence separated me from the little circle on my GPS I’d been trying to reach for the last hour. …

City officials are trying to promote the island’s image as a bicycle-friendly community with new bike lanes in the central city and plans to expand the system westward in the near future.

Their timing is perfect, with more people willing to leave their cars in the driveway as gas prices [...]]]> from The Galveston Daily News

City officials are trying to promote the island’s image as a bicycle-friendly community with new bike lanes in the central city and plans to expand the system westward in the near future.

Their timing is perfect, with more people willing to leave their cars in the driveway as gas prices continue to climb.