Texas Bicycling News Digest December 21st 2017

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Were you ‘Seen’ at the Santa ride?

By Ryan Pelham | www.beaumontenterprise.com


Major, Rain and Ivy Mae Hargraves before the start of a Christmas-themed bike ride at Bicycle Sports on Wednesday night. The group rode their festive bikes through Old Town and West End neighborhoods looking at Christmas lights. Photo taken Wednesday 12/20/17 Ryan Pelham/The Enterprise …

Upcoming Racing and Events

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All things MTB racing in one spot from grass roots ATX100k type events to XC to Enduro. How about some Festivals too? If you know of something coming up, please provide the details. I will do my best to keep this updated as registrations open. Please let me know if you hear of something. I know it is hard to keep all of the weekends and events straight sometimes. …

New report confirms that Dallas actually likes its bike sharing

By Teresa Gubbins | dallas.culturemap.com


Bitching and moaning about bike sharing has become a local hobby, but one company has proof that Dallas is actually liking this new alternative mode of transportation.

LimeBike, which debuted in Dallas in August 2017, has compiled the first-of-its-kind report on the impact of smart bikeshare. The report is an end-of-the-year summary that includes Dallas-specific as well as national data on …

City tentatively talks about dockless bike-sharing

by Caleb Pritchard | www.austinmonitor.com


The Austin Transportation Department is taking a studious approach to the dockless bike-sharing companies that have swooped into cities throughout the world in 2017.

Active Transportation Program Manager Laura Dierenfield brought the Bicycle Advisory Council into the conversation on Wednesday night with a discussion that Dierenfield framed as part of …

South San student pays it forward during holiday season

By Josh Skurnik | www.ksat.com

Michael Sanchez donates bicycle to Neil Armstrong Elementary student

SAN ANTONIO – The holidays is a time of the year when many people pay it forward, including a South San High School student.

For a decade now, South San Independent School District’s Neil Armstrong Elementary has …

City of Fort Worth named a Bicycle-Friendly Business by the League of American Bicyclists

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The League of American Bicyclists recognized the City of Fort Worth’s downtown campus with a Bronze Bicycle-Friendly Business award, joining more than 1,000 visionary organizations across the country that have received the award. …

Colorado City thankful for stranger who made daughter’s Christmas wish come true

Jamie Burch | www.ktxs.com


ABILENE, Texas – Christmas came early for a 4-year-old girl from Colorado City, thanks to the generosity of a Good Samaritan.

Because of that generosity, the mother felt moved to find him. She was able to thanks to a KTXS viewer.

Arleene Atkinson said they were shopping for shoes Thursday night at Academy Sports + Outdoors in Abilene. As soon as they …

Tired of those gnarly Barton Creek trails? Try biking at Slaughter Creek Preserve instead

by Pam LeBlanc | fitness.blog.austin360.com


I’ve missed my mountain bike. It’s stayed in the shed too often lately, even if it is so I can spend quality time with my new canoe and get my running legs back.

But I took it out for spin recently at Slaughter Creek Preserve, which I always recommend to folks looking for fun but not too …

Video: More Dallas Bike Lanes Are on the Way

By Ken Kalthoff | www.nbcdfw.com

A surge in cash for new bicycle facilities in Dallas will soon provide more places to ride safely.
The 2017 bond referendum approved by voters in November includes money for new bike lanes and trails. And thousands of new bicycles from bike-share companies are scattered around …

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Bicyclist dies after ‘contact’ with tow truck driver

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ARLINGTON — A bicyclist was killed in a crash involving a tow truck driver in Arlington Monday night.

At about 6:35 p.m., officers were called to the 200 block of North Collins Street, just south of AT&T Stadium, after an ambulance driver in the area spotted a man in his 30s lying in the road with a bicycle nearby. …

Fat Mac hands out bikes for holidays

By Matt Hollis | baytownsun.com

Every Christmas, Baytonians can expect two things — the Christmas tree on Texas Avenue will be lit up and “Fat Mac” will give away free bicycles.
Ken “Fat Mac” Williamson, a retired police officer, made hundreds of children happy this year, giving away about 350 bicycles through his free bicycle giveaway.

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Last Day of Fall Bike Ride

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After a foggy day yesterday the weather turned great for a bike ride today. I left at 12:03 PM on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route and rode 32 miles. It was a clear sky, 74 degrees with a light 7 mph breeze from the SW. I dressed lighter than Monday’s ride wearing shorts, long sleeve jersey and a short sleeve jersey. It was just right as the temperature warmed up to 77 by the time I finished at 2:22 PM. The sun offset the slight coolness in the shade and as I produced body heat I felt comfortable.

No rest stop in Huffman so it was a continuous ride except for stop signs and traffic lights. I don’t know if it the holiday season or not but several cars and pickups waved me through even though it was their turn.

Close to the end of the ride I stopped at Creekwood Middle School in Kingwood and took these photos to show how great it looked outside. From the look who would guess that winter arrives tomorrow around 11 AM.

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Remember the 14.5-million bike bridge? PeopleForBikes named it one of country’s best bikeways

Pam LeBlanc | www.austin360.com


Remember the rumblings that surrounded the opening of the bike and pedestrian bridges over Barton Creek and Loop 360 earlier this year? Despite all that, a national bike advocacy group has named the project one of the 10 best new bikeways in America. …

CYCLE provides bicycles for students who improve reading skills

By Rebecca Hazen | www.chron.com


Volunteers assembled thousands of bikes to be given to students in the greater Houston area after improving their reading through the program CYCLE (Changing Young Children’s Lives through Education).

About 7,000 Houston-area students received a new bicycle this week after improving their literacy skills during the first half of the school year.
CYCLE (Changing Young Children’s Lives through Education) has given over 150,000 bikes in the greater Houston area to …

Summit Bike Club

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We wanted to get the word out that the Summit Bike Club, a two-time winner of USA Cycling’s MTB Club of the Year, is expanding in Texas, including the Austin area. The U19 and U23 programs have been up and running in Central Texas the past year or so and Summit is now creating a U15 Austin program. Information can be found at summitbikeclub.org and there is a season kit fitting and information session for U19 at Cycle Progression this Thursday, 12/21 from 5:30 to 6:30. Although not specifically for the …

15-year-old Plano girl last seen on red mountain bike found safe

Written by Claire Z. Cardona | www.dallasnews.com


Update at 11:55 p.m.: Chedana Chitralehkha has been found and is safe, police said.
Original item: Plano police are asking for help finding a 15-year-old girl who was not home Monday evening at the time she had told her father she would be.
Chedana Chitralehkha was last seen riding a red mountain bike. She …

At the Close of Dallas’ Year of the Bike Share, LimeBike Shares Some Numbers

Stephen Young | www.dallasobserver.com


Bikes, first silver and mustard, then orange, green and yellow, swarmed downtown Dallas this summer before spreading out. The basics are all the same: Bikes cost $1 per hour to ride, payable via a smartphone app. After a rider pays, a hefty security device unlocks, freeing the bike’s back wheel so the rider can pedal off to wherever he or she might wish. The dollars go to one of four companies — VBikes, with silver and mustard rigs; Spin, which has bikes with orange frames; LimeBike, which has lime bikes; and Ofo, with yellow stock. …

Lubbock physicians: Wearing helmets prevent bike-related head injuries

By ELLYSA HARRIS | lubbockonline.com

If you give a child a bike, medical professionals say he or she should wear a helmet when riding.

“From my perspective, accidents happen on bikes,” said Dr. Richard Lampe, chairman of pediatrics at the Texas Tech’s Health Sciences Center. “Bikes for children and adults are excellent for exercise, but they need to be ridden safely.”

A properly fitted bike helmet can provide a safety net against injury to the …

Dallas City Hall says you’re not the only one tired of all those junky bike rentals

Robert Wilonsky | www.dallasnews.com

I counted 77 parked rental bikes on the walk to the office Tuesday morning — a one-minute, two-block mile trek from the Scottish Rite parking lot to the new News digs on Commerce Street. The bikes, either Ofo’s bright-yellow offerings or LimeBike’s yellow-and-green machines, were clustered on every …

Automotive Exhaust Might Be Worse for Cyclists Than We Thought

By SELENE YEAGER | www.bicycling.com


You may get a good workout on your daily bike commute, but sucking in air pollution from heavy traffic can cancel out any fitness benefits you’d otherwise gain from your efforts, according to a study published this month in The Lancet.

The study focused on walkers in high-traffic environments, but its findings …

Cowboys players donate bikes to Rockwall students

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ROCKWALL, Texas – A pair of Dallas Cowboys gave an early Christmas surprise to deserving students at Rochelle Elementary School in Rockwall.

Defensive ends Demarcus Lawrence and Tyrone Crawford donated new bikes and helmets to 60 kids as part of the 16th annual Academy Sports’ bike donation program.

The students are …

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