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Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for November 12th

Rick Ankrum — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:54:19 +0000

Ice Delays Recovery from Injuries
Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine
November 14, 2010
More than 30 years ago I coined the term RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) for the acute treatment of athletic injuries. Now a study from the Cleveland Clinic shows that one of these recommendations, applying ice to reduce swelling, actually delays healing by preventing the body from releasing IGF-1 (Insulin-like Growth Factor-1), a hormone that helps…

Cycling – Two days, two nice rides, 65.92 miles!
by donbynum
I have been working on building-up my endurance so that I can do a 100 mile ride by year-end. Yesterday and today I proved that I am getting there. Wednesday, John Chalmers and I rode 45.24 miles from Lake Buchanan to the Llano courthouse square and back with a detour down to Shaw Island. Then late this afternoon Gil Jones, David Nantz and I rode 20.68 miles out and back on…

CoA Bike/Ped wants YOU to serve on the BAC
from austinontwowheels.org
It’s that time of year again. The City of Austin Bicycle & Pedestrian Program is looking for intrepid souls to serve on the Bicycle Advisory Council. The BAC serves as a first line of communication between the cycling community and the City of Austin and has been a critical partner with City staff in drafting and implementing the Master Bicycle Plan. The City doesn’t want…

Cycling coast to coast for WaterAid
by Your Olive Branch
Brittany App, photographer from San Luis Obispo, California, and Garrett Russell, videographer of Portland, Oregon, are on a mission to raise awareness to bring fresh drinking water to those who need it most.

Biking from San Diego, California to St. Augustine, Florida, this duo is determined to complete a total of 3,159 miles over a span of three months. Traveling along the Southern Tier, a route established…

Daily News Roundup October 27th – Texas Bicycling

Rick Ankrum — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:31:36 +0000

Biking for transportation is more than riding to work
from The Blog peopleforbikes.org
A recent post on the Copenhagenize blog brought up an important topic for us at peopleforbikes.org. Mikael Colville-Andersen wrote, “The act of riding a bicycle for transport often only gets mentioned as a way to get from home to work and back again in North America, Australasia and Britain.” He’s right: in the U.S., biking for transportation is essentially synonymous with bike commuting. When we talk about making…

2010 Mellow Johnny’s 6-Hour – Volunteer Signup
Presented by 2010 Mellow Johnny’s 6-Hour
Dripping Springs, TX
Saturday, November 13, 2010
The 2010 Mellow Johnny’s 6-Hour race is fast approaching. We’re reaching out for volunteers to make this event a success. Any proceeds from this one will be going to LiveStrong and we are excited about the opportunity to help this wonderful organization out!

The race flyer can be found here. Please read through it so you understand the event logistics prior…

Cross Country bicyclist makes a stop in Anahuac
by Anahuac Progress
Clayton is traveling cross country by bicycle celebrating his sixth year of being cancer free. He began this leg of his journey in Dallas circumnavigating …

Shared paths cause concern | North Texas Daily
by Managing-Editor
UNT students are debating the safety of bicycle riders and pedestrians sharing the sidewalks on campus after a woman was struck and killed by a cyclist in White Rock Lake in Dallas.

Lauren Huddleston, 28, was jogging along Katy Trail in White Rock Lake when she was hit by a bicycle. She died three days later on Oct. 3 from the head injuries sustained in the accident. The cyclist is…

SkelliCyclists present The Skeleton Ride 2nd Bone | Austin Texas …
from www.atxbs.com
Skellies Get excited for our annual Skeleton Ride Were going to bike around town and make a few … ATX Bicycle AdvocacyInfo. Austinand Texas Bike Laws …

The Bike. The Cause. The Family « Word4Women’s Blog
by word4women
I was writing this on Saturday night/ Monday morning & couldn’t contain my thoughts. After a couple of days, I think I’m ready to finish it.

Good morning. I should be in bed asleep recharging to do the Ride for the Roses this morning, but I can’t sleep. There is a lot that is on my heart & mind. I have had a great time in Austin with all of the P3C3 family. Most importantly, I had an amazing time on the journey getting here. The trek halfway across the country with people that you…

English couple cycling through Clovis, Portales to promote charity
by Clovis News Journal
Two English Rotarians cycling 10,000 miles to raise awareness about disaster relief charity Shelter Box are expected in Clovis and Portales, according to a press release.

Huw and Carolyn Thomas of Cornwall, UK, riding in tandem with a green Shelter Box in tow, are traveling across Canada, the U.S. to Florida…

What’s Turning the Spokes on the Net September 14th

Rick Ankrum — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:42:53 +0000

I was reading Fast Company Magazine and spotted these two articles related to bicycling. Sometimes I have wanted a true full service bikestation.

How Cycling Centers Could Help Smooth Commuter Transitions
By: Kate Rockwood
Andréa White-Kjoss
CEO
Mobis Transportation/Bikestation

Andréa White-Kjoss, 35, modeled her full-service cycling centers on a similar idea already popular in Japan and Europe. More than a dozen bike stations have opened in such places as Palo Alto and Berkeley, California; Seattle; and, most recently, Washington, D.C.

“Our existing transportation system has been built around the automobile — parking, service, fuel — and we need the same sort of system around other forms of transportation.

Have you ever heard of B-cycle? Me neither. This is an automated kiosk to rent bikes. More from Fast Company Magazine. With the current debate on health care this might be interesting.

Humana Takes Health to the Streets With B-cycle Bike Sharing
By: Kate Rockwood
Grant Harrison
Vice President of the Innovation Center
Humana
Louisville, Kentucky

Grant Harrison, 45, created B-cycle — automated kiosks that let riders rent bikes at prices akin to mass transit — at Humana, in partnership with Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Trek. The national rollout will bring 50,000 bikes to a dozen U.S. cities in the next three years.

“Health-insurance companies have to change. We can’t focus solely on policy reform; we’re hoping to become a health-creation company. The focus for us is to make fun things healthy.

Planners see dip in money for new roads
by Austin American-Statesman
… or expand transit or bicycle and pedestrian facilities. Daugherty said the inability to find money for road projects — such as the $89 million Texas 45 …

Riding in the rain « Bike Noob
by rainycamp
Now that we’re coming into what passes for fall in Texas, there will be more rain to contend with. I don’t like riding in the rain. If it’s raining before I start my ride, I’ll scratch my ride plans and find something else to do. …

Lengthy bike ride pays off in the end
by Chicago Daily Herald
Starting in Austin, Texas, Broeder peddled west to California, north to Washington, east to the New England states, south to Florida and back west to Texas. …

Bike MS participant has the disease and wants to raise awareness
by San Antonio Express
An estimated 20000 Texas have been diagnosed with MS, and about 2.5 million people worldwide. Minerd has relapsing-remitting MS, the most common form, …

Daily Blog and News Roundup for September 11th

Rick Ankrum — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:54:37 +0000

Shifting Gears luncheon scheduled for Jan 21 | Austin On Two Wheels
I just received word that the Texas Bicycle Coalition, aka Bike Texas, is sponsoring a luncheon called Shifting Gears on Wednesday, January 21. I just received word that the Texas Bicycle Coalition, aka Bike Texas, is sponsoring a luncheon called Shifting Gears on Wednesday, January 21. The focus of the luncheon is to learn how we can change the dynamics of transportation in Texas, while building healthy communities and reducing traffic. …

Bicycle ride down memory lane « Texas Tailwind
by Ben
Assuming it’s not pouring down rain (which unfortunately looks like the case) I’m riding the Cowtown Classic tomorrow on my TT bike as prep for the Texas Time Trials. I did the Cowtown Classic last year on a single speed, …

David Byrne talks bikes in Austin; win his book! | Fit City
By Pamela LeBlanc
Rob D’Amico, president of the League of Bicycling Voters; Annick Beaudet, bicycle pedestrian co-ordinator for the City of Austin; and urban planner Jana McCann. Byrne devotes about 34 pages of his 300-page book to biking through American … Sweetwater, Texas. He spends four pages on that West Texas town, where he ate at a steak restaurant, read the local paper and rode through older parts of town. He describes people selling watermelons in parking lots and an American …

Man traverses country on foot
by Natchez Democrat

… southwest back to Texas, and he is now headed back east. He is loaded with only a bicycle and enough gear to get him through all four seasons. …

2009 Texas Custom Bicycle Show: TCBS now on Facebook!
by info@rideDaltex.com
The Second Annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show will be held Oct 23-25 at the Austin LiveStrong Challenge Expo featuring fine frame builders from the Lone Star State. Bicycles crafted from steel, titanium, and carbon fiber will be on …

Vintage bikes on display this Saturday
by Bastrop Daily Enterprise
Many years later, however, he found an identical Schwinn at a flea market in Canton, Texas. Matthews said he now owns between 30 and 40 restored bicycles …

I do not run across many instances like this.

Flip Over Handlebars Leads Bike Rider to File Product Liability …
by Dr. Shezad Malik
The plaintiff believes the defendants breached express and implied warranties that the bicycle was of merchantable quality and was safe. Warren states the defendants violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by making “false, …

In the Saddle with KU: Kolaches
by KU
I dreamt I was doing some kind of organized bike ride, not a race. It was getting very close to the end of the ride, but it felt like a race because everyone was gearing up for the sprint. As we approach the “finish” there is a guy who locks handlebars with someone and begins to lean into me . Instincts take over and I lean back and push him into the barriers. The guy goes down hard. …

Daily Blog and News Roundup for August 26th

Rick Ankrum — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:41:15 +0000

Peddling pride
by Cullman Times Online
Compton is riding across the country on his custom made bicycle to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project. Compton sustained compression fractures in …

Buccaneers on bikes
by Austin 360
By Ian Dille In summer 2006, then-University of Texas graduate student Andrew Stackhouse organized a pirate (or, unsanctioned) mountain bike race around the …

Action Alert: Austin safe passing ordinance at risk, your action …
by elliott
(The ordinance will be based on Bike Texas’s legislation passed in the session but vetoed by Gov. Perry, so it will likely include other vulnerable road users like pedestrians.) A ban on texting while driving (and riding a bike). As most of you recall, safe passing legislation which passed overwhelmingly by both houses of the legislature this spring was vetoed by Governor Perry. We later saw some of the nasty ….

Rails-to-Trails routes in urban Houston – Houston hiking
by Examiner.com
It passes by Texas Southern University, University of Houston, Hermann Park, MacGregor Park, Houston Zoo, the Museum District, Texas Medical Center, …

Recreational Sports calendar – Aug. 26, 2009
by San Antonio Express – San Antonio,TX,USA

Bicycling: Saturday, 8 a.m., La Vernia, Wilson County Ride, 20, 30 and 50 miles, La Vernia city park. (210) 373-2010, (830) 660-7570.

Bicycling: Sunday, 8 a.m., Toutant-Beauregard Ride, 21, 35, 47 and 58 miles, across from Floore Country Store, Old Town Helotes. (210) 325-2500, (210) 524-9393.

Bicycling: Sept. 5, 8 a.m., Bullis Ride, 21, 34, 48 and 66 miles, Bullis County Park. (210) 826-4869.

Bicycling: Sept. 6, 8 a.m., Castroville Ride, 11, 25 and 40 miles, park-and-ride off highway 90 by Sammy’s Restaurant, Castroville. (830) 931-9744.

Bicycling: Sept. 12, 8 a.m., Boerne Ride, 25 to 70 miles, city hall, downtown Boerne. (210) 325-2500, (210) 524-9393.

Bicycling: Sept. 12, 8 a.m., Walk and Roll Challenge, Pearl Brewery in front of Run Wild Sports. (210) 826-0884.

Bicycling: Sept. 13, 8 a.m., Grand Tour of SA Central Ride, 25 miles, Blue Star parking lot across from Pioneer Flour Mill. (210) 533-3416.

Bicycling: Sept. 19, 8 a.m., Big Joshua Creek Ride, 29, 39 and 54 miles, across street from PoPo’s Restaurant, Welfare. (210) 325-3188, (210) 771-1354.

Run/Walk: Sept. 19, 8 a.m., Walk to Break the Silence on Ovarian Cancer 5K, McAllister Park (Pavilion No. 2). (210) 219-1837.

Bicycling: Sept. 20, 8 a.m., Kendalia-Crabapple Ride, 35 and 52 miles, public library, Kendalia. (210) 325-2500, (210) 524-9393.

Bicycling: Sept. 26, 8 a.m., Cibolo Ride, 20, 27, 39, 51, 66 and 71 miles, city hall parking lot, Cibolo. (210) 884-9470.

Bicycling: Sept. 26, 8 a.m., Bike MS Long Stay-Together Ride at the Cibolo Ride, 50 miles, city hall parking lot, Cibolo. (210) 884-9470.

Bicycling: Sept. 26, 8 a.m., Stay-Together Ride at the Cibolo Ride, 27 and 39 miles, city hall parking lot, Cibolo. (361) 701-5369.

Bicycling: Sept. 27, 8 a.m., Woman Hollering Creek Ride, 26 to 70 miles, Judson High School, Converse. (210) 826-0884.

Austin Cycle Camp opens with bike skills, training classes
by Austin on Two Wheels
Austin cyclists Dave Appel and Trey Steele have opened a new cycling training and skills service under the name Austin Cycle Camp. With skills classes on the car free Veloway and weekend class road rides, the classes…