Get comfortable before racing off on a cycling adventure
by San Angelo Standard Times
There are three points of contact as you ride a bike: hands, feet, and your rear end.

The posterior-to-seat interface is usually the most problematic of the three and many cyclists have an ongoing love/hate relationship with their bike seat.

Modern bike saddles come in a variety of shapes and sizes and range from very cushy to no padding at all. The things to consider when you choose…

Duo teaches riders lessons in safe biking
from uwire.com
On the first day that saw no crashes at the Tour de France, Austinites were learning how to be better and safer cyclists so they, too, could avoid crashes while riding.

On Wednesday, the Austin Cycling Association provided a defensive cycling class licensed by The Center for Cycling Education. Cooperating with the Austin Municipal Court, the program allows ticket dismissal for violations incurred by bicyclists within the court’s jurisdiction.

The three-hour class was the first of six to be taught this year at BikeTexas. …

Bicycle accident map
from Bike Denton by howard
Readers from last year will remember that when Nick Magruder was seriously hit and run on Bonnie Brae, the Denton Police were not collecting bicycle accident stats at that time.  Naturally, we asked if they could, and they agreed to start keeping track of bicycle accidents.  The police gave us a raw spreadsheet of accident data, and we plugged in the data to Google Maps via www.batchgeo.com.  You can click on each dot…

Bicycle  safety is a two-way street
by The Cross Timbers Gazette (blog)
… enjoys bike riding with his 20-year-old son. For more information on bicycle safety and Texas law, visit the Texas Bicycle Coalition at www.biketexas.org. …

The Mudville News :: Blistering Sands Bicycle Tours
Despite Hurricane Alex hitting Mudville the Blistering Sands Challenge Bicycle Tours began at 8 AM on Saturday, July 3, 2010 at the Hill Park.  This challenge is presented by the St. John Knights of Columbus to raise money for their scholarship fund.  This past year they were able to give out $6000 in scholarships through various fundraisers.  West Texas State Bank and Spec.-Ops sponsored the event. …

Shiner Elementary School holds bicycle road-eo
by Victoria Advocate
The Texas Department of Transportation gave a bicycle safety talk, followed by a riding course and written test given to challenge the 72 students’ safety …

Biking from Austin to Alaska
from http://uwire.com/
Today, more than 50 students will depart from the U. Texas campus to begin the trek of their lives — riding bicycles from Austin to Alaska to fight cancer. One year ago, these same individuals began their journey together in Austin as … In this way, Texas 4000 is more than just a student organization or a summer bike ride. We are a life-changing experience that creates a lasting support system of volunteers and individuals excited to battle cancer no matter what kind of …

Cyclists cross SE Texas on coast-to-coast adventure
from www.beaumontenterprise.com
On a gray day in February, Jan Gagliano dipped her bicycle tires in the Atlantic Ocean at San Augustine, Fla., and began to ride west.

In her 116-day journey to San Diego, Calif., Gagliano, 62, crossed the Southern Tier, a bicycle tourism route that traverses 3,092 miles through eight states, including a three-day jaunt across rural roads in Newton, Jasper and Tyler counties. …

Palo Duro Canyon is worth the drive for mountain bikers
by Austin American-Statesman
As a Central Texas resident, driving to the Panhandle for a mountain biking excursion didn’t seem to make much sense. Why bother with an achingly long drive when we are blessed with a multitude of diverse trails in and around Austin?

The answer is simple and probably surprising to some — Palo Duro Canyon. Maybe you’ve seen pictures, read something about it or talked to someone who has made…

Teen makes grade in class, cycling races abroad
By ERIC BERGER
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Lawson Craddock of Houston, 18, finished third in the junior Paris-Roubaix, the race in northern France famous for its cobblestone sections.

Last Sunday Lawson Craddock was flying across the cobblestone roads of northern France in the juniors edition of the famed one-day cycling race Paris-Roubaix, nicknamed the “Hell of the North” for its sections of rugged cobbles. The 18-year-old from Houston finished…

MS 150 rider not letting cancer keep her off bike
Pedaling to Austin is her way of showing she’ll never give up
By MOISES MENDOZA
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
The MS 150 is an annual fundraising ride from Houston to Austin, held to raise money to find a cure for multiple sclerosis. About 13,000 cyclists are participating in the ride, which lasts through today. For more information visit www.ms150.org.

Liz Benavidez remembers the painful moment in March 2008 when she fell while training on her bike.

Her groin was hurt so she went to the hospital, figuring she’d get patched up and be out on the road again soon. …

Stockard: High school football is worth the sacrifices
by Fort Worth Star Telegram
The injury rate for bicycle riding is more than 50 times that of football. Should we ban or curtail bicycle riding? Tomasic wrote that smaller players go up …

Riders on the storm
by Mineral Wells Index
The stage race seems to have firmly sealed Palo Pinto County on the bicycling map as having the third Texas bike race to offer rolling enclosures, …

For the last two days the Bikereg.com RSS fed has been going crazy sending about every listed event to my Google Reader. While I am glad other parts of the country will be riding the inundation of messages is getting to be overwhelming.

7th Annual Bicycle Safety Rodeo – May 15th
We are inviting you to participate in the 7th annual bicycle safety rodeo. Free Helmet! Free Food! Free T-shirt! Free Entry!
Attention: 1st – 5th Grade
Not a rodeo at all! No competition — Just Bicycle Safety and Education Temple Police Department, COPS Unit, instructs and supervises training course. (Participant name in drawing for 25 or more Bicycles)
Our Partners:
Temple Police Department
Temple Parks & Recreation
Central Texas Trauma Council
Scott & White Community Cycling Club
Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center
***** Toad Harlev-Davidson
Department of Public Safety
Temple Fire & Rescue
Temple Association for School Nutrition
Scott & White EMS Service
Ralph Wilson Youth Club
Temple Founder Lions Club
Temple Salvation Army
Kiwanis Club of Temple

Where: Miller Park, Temple, TX
What: Bring your Bike to Enter
Registration: 8:00 to 9:00 AM
Training: 9:00 to 12:00 Noon

Weekly race series, group rides help Austin’s bike racing scene sizzle
from austin360.com
‘It’s definitely the hottest scene in Texas,’ says Andrew Willis, president of the Texas Bicycle Racing Association, the governing body of bike racing in …

North Texas Child Magazine « Connie’s Bike MS: Sam’s Club 2010 …
by connie98
North Texas Child has a monthly “Real Mom Next Door” feature where they highlight a mom who is doing great things for their community. The lady who called me had given me a link to previously featured moms to give me an idea of what the story was … 2 days ago; Tour Dallas Ride Packets picked up. Headed to Ft. Worth’s Stockyards for some good catfish. : ) Yummy!! 4 days ago; Finished my 545 am 24Cycle class! Great showing from Castle Hills for a sub – 18 people!! Thanks! …

Ordinance would give bicyclists safe passage
by Corpus Christi Caller Times
A model ordinance supported by the Texas Bicycle Coalition is similar to a bill that overwhelmingly passed both houses of the Legislature last year but was …

Team Brain and Spine Cycling
Team Brain and Spine Cycling is proud to present the TxBRA Texas Cup Series Event, The Walburg Classic Road Race on February 20, 2010.  This year’s event offers a 22-mile rolling course through the traditional bucolic country side around Walburg, TX, featuring false flats, an uphill finish and, of course, wind — the makings of yet another epic adventure. …

Cycling in Graduate School: Snow/Icey roads=Indoor trainer
by tx/nc cyclist
In case you have not seen any news this week, we got a lot of snow in the Dallas TX area. The DFW airport got 12.5 inches of snow (yes that is a record). So despite several hours above freezing yesterday the roads this morning … This mornings trainer ride was the first for the year and my lack of riding in the last few weeks really showed. If nothing else the time I spent on the trainer helped to remind me that I really need to get my training plan set and stick to it. …

Trike Note #4: Seeing and Being Seen « Easy Street Articles
by Thad Sitton
…You can ride your trike or other hpv on bike trails or veloways and–to a degree–not worry about this, but if you ride the streets and roads with with automobiles you need to make arrangements for seeing and being seen. I think that one reason motorists discern trikes so well and give them so much room on the road is because trikers are, as it were, running scared. They feel low-down and potentially unobserved and so take nothing for granted. Instead they fly flags six feet high, wear optic clothing, and display flashing red lights that emphatically grab drivers’ attention. Road bikers will not do things like that, though some non-cutting-edge types wear optic jerseys. …

Sweat hearts: Healthy relationships are forged with exercise
by Press of Atlantic City
Warren and Audre Casteel of Plano, Texas, like to ride a tandem bicycle together. They find it to be great exercise and a great way to be together, …

Veteran Jenison Bicycle Racer Killed in Texas
by WHTC
(Rockport, TX) – A 77-year-old veteran bicycle road racer preparing for a 100-mile event was killed last Monday on a Gulf Coast highway near Corpus Christi, …

Those Good Rides (Follow-up post) « Bike Noob
by rainycamp
There was less response to the post  about the “big” rides you plan for the coming year than I would have liked, but I’m guessing that’s because most of my readers in North America and Europe are still in the depths of winter and perhaps haven’t given it much thought.
Nolan Kuehn mentioned what I hope will become a favorite of mine: The LBJ 100 in Stonewall, Texas. I say I hope it will become one, because I haven’t ridden it yet. Last year, I was all set to head out there for the ride, when I woke up …

Safe Routes to Schools projects to be constructed here
By the Midland Reporter-Telegram
An upcoming Midland project is aimed at making walking and bicycling to school safer for students at Emerson and Fannin elementary schools and Goddard Junior High. Work is scheduled to start the week of Feb. 15.

The Texas Department of Transportation will construct two Safe Routes to Schools projects with a pair of $590,000 grants. Projects have also been constructed in Stanton and Pecos school districts for their proposed improvements…

Pilot program launches to encourage children to ride bicycles to Round Rock …
by Austin American-Statesman

The sun glinted off children’s bicycles decorated with purple and gold garlands, balloons, ribbons and red hearts on Friday as more than 300 students at Sommer Elementary School celebrated the kickoff of a program encouraging them to bike to school.

Volunteers gave each child a free bike helmet, donated by the Austin Cycling Association, with a microchip attached to it. The chips help transmit the number of rides a child takes. A radio frequency scanner powered by a solar…

Jack and Adam’s Bicycles: 9 Tips to a Safer Ride by Trey Steele
by Meriwether
The roads of Central Texas are bustling with the sounds of cars, trucks, SUV’s, and the lovely hum of hubs, cogs, chains, and cranks that signal cycling hibernation is over and it’s time to start thinking about the 2010 season. Whether you’ re a total road rookie or … If you’re trying to see how fast you can go, sign up for a race. Otherwise, set an example for everyone and follow the traffic laws. That’s cooler than ending up in ICU. Tip 2 – Carry Identification …

Father Son Tour – Livestrong Challenge Austin, 2009
from www.youtube.com
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Bill and Liam (age 9) take part in the 2009 Livestrong Challenge in Austin, Texas. The 5k run and 65 mile bike raise money for the Lance Armstrong …

Point Comfort Elementary Bike Rodeo winners
by Victoria Advocate
The Texas Department of Public Safety conducted a bicycle safety talk at Point Comfort Elementary in Point Comfort on Oct. 12. …

CS to hold meeting on plans for trails | Bryan/College Station …
from www.theeagle.com/local/
A community meeting on the Bicycle, Pedestrian and Greenways Master Plan is set for Nov. 3 at 6:30 p.m. at the College Station Conference Center, 1300 George Bush Drive. Officials will discuss the implementation, priorities and updates to the master plan. …

City, UT unite to improve cyclists’ safety
by UT The Daily Texan
… University for help studying the devices based on their previous research on bicycle safety, including work for the Texas Department of Transportation. …

It’s WonderFall In Palestine: Oktoberfest Set Saturday
By BETTY WATERS www.tylerpaper.com
…Bicycle rides to benefit the United Way and its 15 partner agencies will begin at 8 a.m. for various distances — nine, 32, 62 and 100 miles. The rides will start and end at the Meals on Wheels/Senior Citizens Center, 200 N. Church St. For riders who did not register in advance, registration will begin at 7 a.m. for $30. …

Competing for a cause in the name of a friend
from www.beaumontenterprise.com

Beaumont native Kathleen Woodhead, right, returned Friday morning to ride with local cyclists as she trains to ride in the Florida Ironman Triathlon on Nov. 7. She is raising money for Beaumont’s MADD chapter in honor of Kelly High School student Kristi McCarthy who was killed by a drunk driver. …

No singin’ the blues in Navasota « Jim’s Bike Blog
by jimsbikeblog
We arrived in Navasota, in southeast Texas, on Tuesday after a ride of just over 66 miles from La Grange, where we cut short Monday’s ride because the rain that began during the night showed no sign of stopping. …

FtW Cycling Experience: Tuesday
by rab
Beautiful fall day, more in line with what I expected of fall in north Texas. Of course we were inundated Sunday night through Monday, so the ground remains saturated and the river high, limiting ride options.

I stuck with the cx bike and gravel trails along the Trinity, …

MTB Race News: Austin’s Vance McMurry wins $4000 prize package
by mtbracenews.com
Vance McMurry of Austin, Texas came within one mile of the total which was close enough to win him a $4000 prize package. The prize package includes an Ellsworth Enlightment frame as well as: Niterider: Two sets of lights …

Pedaling Houston Texas Bicycle Laws
by pedalinghouston.blogspot.com
So in my 5 years as a road biker I have heard many interpretations of bike laws. I had one car ask me at a red light if it was legal for me to be in the road. I have had quite a few drivers yell at me to ride…

DFW Point-to-Point: Practice for the Bike Lanes to Come
by Steve A
While I don’t accept PM Summer’s interpretation of Texas Sec. 551.103* as making use of bike lanes mandatory (shown here) in Texas, I also wouldn’t have thought it was perfectly OK to totally ban bikes from streets the way that Hunter’s …

Eracing Stigma Criterium
by Austin 360
Bicycle racing. The Tour de France has Paris, but the Tour of Austin has, well, Austin. Andrew Willis, director of Holland Racing, organizers of The Driveway Austin Thursday Night Bike Race Series, has pulled a trio of area races under one umbrella to create a three-day event Labor Day weekend with more than $15,000 in prize money. …

A&M-CC students teach public bicycle safety
by Corpus Christi Caller Times
Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times A bicycle safety word find developed by a student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times …

Look close at the pictures included with this essay; there is a theme.

Garland, The Town Texas Forgot « Suburban Assault
by dickdavid
Like most Texas drivers, I expect that they are just not used to seeing too many bicycle riders around town and don’t have the patience to go around them. I mostly stick with back streets, but since I’m not too familiar with those in …

from The Austin American Statesman

By Isadora Vail

Andrew Cordova remembers driving from Cedar Park to Georgetown on March 14 and seeing a pair of feet still clipped into a bicycle while the bicycle’s tire spun in the air on the side of Parmer Lane near RM 1431.

Cordova immediately drove into the grass median so he could turn around to help the person who lay motionless on the shoulder of the road, he said.

read more at The Austin American Statesman