By Kevin Sieff

When the car struck Eric Garcia, his body was launched from his bicycle like a lifeless projectile. Jose Antonio Garcia, his father and cycling partner, watched Eric fly through the air before landing on asphalt.

He was killed on impact – on a stretch of Expressway 77/83 that [...]]]> from The Brownsville Herald

By Kevin Sieff

When the car struck Eric Garcia, his body was launched from his bicycle like a lifeless projectile. Jose Antonio Garcia, his father and cycling partner, watched Eric fly through the air before landing on asphalt.

He was killed on impact – on a stretch of Expressway 77/83 that cyclists have long feared.

It had happened again. Another car accident. Another dead cyclist.

Five months earlier, one Brownsville man was killed and several more were injured when a drunk driver plowed into a group of cyclists in a Matamoros bike race. That accident devastated the local cycling community, leaving survivors with dislocated hips and serious concussions.

read Kevin’s full article at The Brownsville Herald

The duo has already braved the northern part of the trip in little more than a month and reached [...]]]> By Jasmine Ulloa, The Brownvsille Herald

Surya and Giri Markala are pedaling more than 3,000 miles from Toronto to Mexico City in an effort to raise HIV/AIDS awareness, a project they call AIDS Bike Ride 2008.

The duo has already braved the northern part of the trip in little more than a month and reached Brownsville Tuesday night. They will cross the border into Matamoros this morning to continue south.

But Surya and Giri aren’t your likely cross-country cyclists.

Originally from southeast India, the brothers have no professional biking experience and are paying for the trip out-of-pocket.

Link to the full story at The Brownsville Herald

“Eleven months and 12,000 miles after leaving their home in the Yukon Territory, Ken Madsen and Wendy and Malkolm Boothroyd pulled into Brownsville on bicycles.

In June, the Canadian family began their cycling trip from one corner of North America to another. It started as Malkolm’s ‘‘Big Year’’ — [...]]]> By KEVIN SIEFF- The Brownsville Herald

“Eleven months and 12,000 miles after leaving their home in the Yukon Territory, Ken Madsen and Wendy and Malkolm Boothroyd pulled into Brownsville on bicycles.

In June, the Canadian family began their cycling trip from one corner of North America to another. It started as Malkolm’s ‘‘Big Year’’ — a quest to see as many species of birds as he could in 365 days. Even before the family left on the trip, Boothroyd’s goals had grown loftier.”