Texas Bicycling News Digest June 14th 2018

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Terry St. John | www.lmtonline.com

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Let’s Do This Houston presents Zydeco on the Bayou/Night Light Vibe at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The group meets at Third Ward Tours, 2301 Elgin St., to ride along the Brays Bayou Greenway Trails. Featured genre of music Zydeco evolved in southwest Louisiana by French Creole speakers, blending blues, rhythm and blues and music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles and the native people of Louisiana. Visit Let’s Do This Houston on Facebook.

Bike Houston hosts an education course from 9 a.m. until noon Saturday for members to enhance their skills and confidence while riding a bike under various roadway and traffic conditions. The class is taught in two parts: 1. Information instruction and presentation, and 2. an on-the-bike safety drills portion, followed by a short group ride. Participants must have their own roadworthy bicycle and helmet and must be able to ride a bicycle at a basic beginner level. The class is offered at the Leonel Castillo Community Center, 2101 South St. Visit bikehouston.org.

The White Oak Ride, hosted by Little White Oak Night Market, is at 5 p.m. Saturday. Riders meet at 2623 Keene St. Visit HTX Social Bicycle Ride Info and Culture of Houston on Facebook.

Bike Barn’s Memorial Park Crit on Wednesday, June 20, at Memorial Park includes local racing, a BCycle fun race and a fixed gear crit. The Memorial Park CrIt is a spectator series for the whole family and is open to anyone wanting to start racing. Contact race@bikebarn.com.

Texas 4000 bike trek spins through Gainesville

By Patrick Hayslip | www.gainesvilleregister.com


From Austin to Alaska, organizers of the Texas 4000 for Cancer bike ride spent 18 months preparing for its 70-day trek across North America.

They’ve raised money, put in countless community service hours and brought attention to their cause of cancer awareness

One of the three routes to Alaska stopped at Gainesville High School over the weekend to find a reprieve from the heat, restock on fuel and …

Ofo’s Dockless Bikes Hit Austin Streets

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Bird and Lime might have been first with dockless scooters in Austin. But Ofo, the Chinese dockless bike company, was the first ever to scale up a stationless-bikes business.

Now, Ofo’s yellow bikes are hitting Austin streets after getting permits to rent 500 bikes from the city. They appear to be the second dockless bike company to get permits — the first was Pace back in late May. Zagster, Spin and JUMP have also shown interest, but …

Evening Ride

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Just good to be on wheels

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Triathlon retail franchising companies combine as Playtri acquires Endurance House

by BRAIN Staff | www.bicycleretailer.com

DALLAS (BRAIN) — Playtri Franchising LLC, a Dallas-based retailer and franchiser, has acquired Endurance House International LLC, a Madison, Wisconsin-based franchiser.

Playtri was launched as a coaching company in 2000 and later opened five stores in the Dallas area. It announced in January 2017 that it was selling franchises; the first franchise opened in May last year in North Fort Worth; there are now …

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Flag Day, Cars Crash and a Bike Ride

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Starting at 9:15 am (early for me) I enjoyed the coolness as I rode on the greenbelt trail for about half a mile before emerging onto the streets where the sun made it a little warmer. While starting early felt cooler I noticed the higher humidity quickly but it didn’t take long for that to go down while my sweating went up. The weather while I biked: start 87 (69% humidity), partly cloudy, wind SW 8 mph. Finish 92 (53% humidity), partly cloudy, wind calm.

Due to an appointment this afternoon I rode the shorter “Atascocita – Walden – E. Lake Houston Parkway” route for a total of 28.14 miles, moving the week total to 140.7 miles and June to 442.3 miles, 55% of the way to June’s 800 mile goal.

I didn’t expect anything out of the ordinary but when I arrived at the Chevron station on FM 1960 at Atascocita Shores Drive tow trucks were in abundance with several Harris County Sheriff cars. Not long after the Atascocita Fire Department pulled and when I came back outside after filling my water bottle an ambulance got there. Photos:

Traffic was a mess as people made their way around the wreck scene. It appeared two cars came together with one on the back of the white tow truck above and the other to the left of the sheriff’s car in the first photo. I got on the Canyon and exited onto Atascocita Shores Drive to go east on FM 1960 over Lake Houston. When I returned all of the emergency vehicles were gone and you would never know the crash happened.

Today is Flag Day and the United States flag was on display in front of many homes and businesses. Several photos during the ride. The house I expected to see many flags displayed did not have any though.

I finished the ride at 11:27 am within my allotted time so not to be late for the afternoon appointment.

More hot and dry weather on Friday for bicycling. Sunday and Monday look to be wet.

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary

Texas Bicycling News Digest June 13th 2018

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Bicyclist Duels with Buick and Buick Wins

By Joe Hyde | sanangelolive.com

SAN ANGELO, TX — A Buick ran over a bicyclist at 11th St. and N. Chadbourne St. Wednesday afternoon just after 3 p.m.

According to the San Angelo police, the Buick was eastbound on 11th St. and about to turn right, or south, onto Chadbourne when the bicyclist was riding north on the sidewalk along the southbound lanes of Chadbourne. In other words, …

RedMonkey Sports buys Zevlin bar tape company

by BRAIN Staff | www.bicycleretailer.com

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (BRAIN) — RedMonkey Sports has acquired Zevlin, a bar tape company, adding road and gravel bar tape to its product offerings.

Zevlin, is a Dallas-based company owned and operated by brothers Drew and Brad Hagestad, launched at Interbike in 2012.

“RedMonkey Sports has been looking to enter the road and gravel bike segment of the market for a while now. Given the various products we currently have in development, we felt the …

Video: Co-workers come together to raise money for man who bikes 2 hours to work

By Erica Simon | abc13.com

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Rain, sleet or snow, Juan Estrada straps on his safety vest and heads to work.

“I wake up and thank God I get another day of work. That’s why I work so hard,” he said.

The journey to get from New Caney to Texas Roadhouse in Kingwood, where Estrada is a busser and dishwasher, isn’t an easy one.

The route is a little rugged, and the …

Sad news about Shane Boyd

El Paso Bicycling Club

Shane Boyd, who was an active rider with El Paso Bicycle Club for many years, died yesterday. He had been fighting cancer and other illness. Anyone who knew him as a rider knows that he did not go gently into the night — he was competitive! His wife Marty has also been an long-time rider, club member and was director of the Chile Pepper Challenge for two years. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.

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Cell Phone Charging Cables No Help Bike Ride

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After working on our lawn sprinkler system for two days I wasn’t sure how much energy I had left for today’s bike ride. Starting out at 10:29 am my legs turned the pedals without too much effort but the streets were level and the wind friendly. I decided on the “New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch” route rather than longer one I thought of earlier in the week before lawn sprinkler repairs. The bike ride totaled 34.18 miles moving the week to 112.57 miles and June to 414.16 miles, 52% of my 800 mile goal for June.

Not too far into the bike ride I stopped and took these photos of the greenbelt trail in Elm Grove Village in Kingwood. The shade was nice.

Bike Ride Elm Grove Trail

Bike Ride Elm Grove Trail-2

Same spot from different angles. To the left of the concrete trail beyond the trees and brush are two apartment complexes. After the brief stop I rode back to the streets to head out of Kingwood through Sherwood Trails and Woodridge Forest.

Once I biked to I-69/US59 the route went north and the friendly wind helped my low energy legs all the way to Tavola. After riding through Tavola I stopped at the Shell station on Roman Forest Blvd. to refill my water bottle with ice and water. It was hot and the shade was inviting but I got back on the Canyon and rode west to I-69/US59 to begin the ride back to Kingwood. The wind wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be and maintaining 16 to 18 mph wasn’t too hard on the legs. Winding through Valley Ranch to FM 1314 stopping at Stripes was mandatory for a rest break. The wind was putting resistance in my way and I needed to cool down, eat a couple of granola bars with ice water. The Wahoo Elemnt summary when I stopped.

Wahoo Ride Summary Stripes FM1314

Arriving at Stripes at 12:18 pm I stayed about 25 minutes. Walking back to the store I refilled the water bottle to carry with for the 11+ miles remaining.

Weather during the bike ride: start 90 (59% humidity), partly cloudy, wind S 12 mph. Finish 95 (45% humidity), partly cloudy, wind S 6 mph.

Recently on bike rides I am seeing many phone charging cables laying on the shoulder. In various conditions from traffic running over them I wonder why these go out the window and wind up there. I estimate the rate of phone cables to road kill armadillos to be 15 cables for every 1 armadillo. Good for the cable makers. I thought about stopping to examine the better looking cables to see if they could be used but haven’t so far. On Monday’s ride I think I saw close to 10 cables. Sadly these cables couldn’t charge my legs up with more energy.

Finishing the bike ride at 1:38 pm my legs were glad so now they can rest. No sprinkler repairs, system is working and the new Netro controller did its job watering this morning. All sprinkler heads appear to have done their job.

More hot and dry weather on Thursday for biking. I plan on starting earlier though.

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary