{"id":34963,"date":"2017-01-05T00:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T06:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=34963"},"modified":"2017-01-05T00:05:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T06:05:22","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-january-4th-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/texas-bicycling-news-january-4th-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News January 4th 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston’s hit-and-run problem: ghost bikes honour ‘invisible dead’ cyclists<\/a><\/h2>\n

Nick Van Mead | www.theguardian.com<\/h3>\n

1,700 cyclists have been hit by cars and trucks in four years, with one in four drivers failing to stop. Personalised ghost bikes are an effort to show people noticed when someone was killed \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and give their families some closure<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always the same story,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Steve Sims, who runs Houston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ghost Bike scheme with wife Melissa. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We speak to the family who tell us \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMy loved one was struck and killed.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s devastating for them, but when someone gets hit on a bike here, nothing …<\/p>\n

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Beauty and the Beast Bike Tour<\/a><\/h2>\n

Tyler Bicycle Club | www.kooi.com<\/h3>\n

Mar25
\nSaturday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
\nKE Bushman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Celebration Center 1565 FM 3493 East Bullard, TX
\nProduced by the Tyler Bicycle Club, sponsored by Kiepersol Estates. Enjoy the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beauty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the East Texas rolling hills and finish with a very challenging climb up \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Beast\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on one of the most popular bike tours in the country! This is our 29th year!<\/p>\n

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Houston Bike Plan Public Hearing at Planning Commission<\/a><\/h2>\n

City of Houston Planning Commission | houstonbikeplan.org<\/h3>\n

Date: Thursday, January 19, 2017 Time: 2:30 PM
\nLocation: Council Chambers at City Hall Annex
\n900 Bagby St, Houston, TX 77002
\nFormat: Members of the public may sign up to speak on any agenda item at the meeting. Speakers are allowed two minutes and may only speak once per item. For further details about the Planning Commission public hearing and agenda, please visit the webpage for the Houston Planning Commission.<\/p>\n

This public hearing before the Planning Commission is the next step in the city’s efforts to help make Houston a safer, healthier, and more accessible bicycle-friendly city. Full completion of the bikeway network would put high-comfort bikeways within reach of over 95% of people and jobs in the city. …<\/p>\n

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Southern Tier Winter Tour<\/a><\/h2>\n

By David Hayes | www.crazyguyonabike.com<\/h3>\n

Day 10 – Shepherd to Richards TX: Is that you Mr. Twitty?
\nWednesday January 4, 2017
\nUp before dawn, I breakfasted…where else!…at the the Subway conveniently located 50 feet from the door of my hotel room. Then, with the sun just beginning to turn the eastern sky a dim rose color, I was off and pedaling toward Richards, my planned stop. I began with one extra layer of clothes because it was in the low 40s. But then it got COLDER and I had to add, not take off, layers. I think my feet are just now thawing out.
\nThe entire morning I was thinking how uneventful the day looks like it would be. Perhaps even my very first “ride happened” journal day when I found nothing at all interesting to remark upon. Same old same old. Sure, the road was no longer pancake-flat like it used to be, but I’d kind of expected that since Austin…which I’ll reach in about 4 days…is in the heart of Texas Hill Country. Pretty much one short, steep hill followed by an equally short, steep descent for mile after mile after mile. But overall, I felt like I’d settled into a rhythm of …<\/p>\n

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Farmersville Trick It Up<\/a><\/h2>\n

Pedal Pushers | roy-pedalpushers.blogspot.com<\/h3>\n


\nPicturesque church at the staging area parking lot. Farmersville is a nice old town above Dallas and becoming a bedroom community of McKinney.
\nNice day. Good crowd. And if everyone wasn’t filled with coffee and doughnuts, it was his own fault. Volunteers were out early and greeted riders with a big assortment of doughnuts. …<\/p>\n

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Texas Bicycling from Twitter<\/h1>\n
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What is Wee Chi Tah Trail? It's this! Thanks Wade Walkup https:\/\/t.co\/prnxQ4hFb1<\/a><\/p>\n

— Wee-Chi-Tah Trail (@WeeChiTahTrail) January 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n