Texas Bicycling News Digest November 7th 2017

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Car in green bike lane a black eye for city, cyclists say

By Dug Begley | www.chron.com


A pack of bike riders take off after the launch of the new downtown park connector on March 26, 2015. The lane is ten blocks long located at Lamar Street at Brazos between Bagby and Smith, near the Houston …

Houston’s fire department left something behind after Friday’s parade for the Houston Astros, which has some bicycling enthusiasts fuming.
A hybrid car managed by the city’s fleet department and checked out to the fire department was left in the green dedicated bike lane along Lamar, Houston officials said, during Friday’s parade. According the Houston Public Works, the car stalled, and was not towed away until Monday morning. …

TROST & TROST MANSIONS – BREAKFAST AND BIKE RIDE

by Malissa Arras-Grossman | texastrost.org


Trost & Trost Mansions – Breakfast and Bike Ride

Join us for a bikeride through the Montana Historic District with Margaret Smith, grandniece of Henry Trost, and VeloPaso! We will start bright and early at Salt + Honey Bakery and Cafe on Sunday, November 12 at 8:30 AM for breakfast and conversation, then hop on our bikes to let Margaret lead us on a tour of the Trost Mansions on Montana Avenue – seven in all! This tour is open to everyone, $35 per ticket which includes breakfast and the two hour tour. Don’t …

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Dockless Bike Share Program

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Dockless Bike Share Program
Owner Solic Number: MAIN 18-0007 Status: bidding Report: 8181771
Country : United States State: TX County: Brazos Location: College Station
Scope: Furnish and manage an on campus dockless free-flow bike share program for campus mobility.
Notes: A teleconference pre-proposal meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 13, 2017 @ 10:00 a.m. CST.All interested vendors are to RSVP via email to p-winkler@tamu.edu and receive the teleconference call-in information. Questions due: 11/15/17 at 5:00 PM.
Plans: From Owner. See attached file.
Owner Type: Public

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Warm November Weather Continues Bicycle Ride

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The warm weather continues making today’s bike ride feel more like summer. This will probably end later today when the front passes through. The route for today’s ride: “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” for a total of 33.6 miles. November now totals 170 miles, 190 more to reach my goal, and YTD I am at 6991 miles, 430 more to hit that goal.

Weather during the ride: 81 degrees at the 10:33 AM start, 79% humidity, mostly cloudy sky; 85 degrees at 12:57 PM finish, 66% humidity, mostly cloud sky, SW wind at 7 mph.

When I stopped at the Pinehurst Trail Drive and FM 1960 traffic light a red SUV pulled up in the left turn lane (I was going straight) and as the light changed I saw a bike on a bumper rack. I wondered if I would see the cyclist at the church on Fairlake Drive south of FM 1960 and I did. He was getting ready to ride as I went by and we exchanged waves. Not long after that a lady cyclist passed me going north on Fairlake Drive. I almost didn’t see her because my head was down riding into the wind.

Some road construction on the route at Pinehurst Trail Drive north and south of FM 1960. I noticed markings on the road indicating possible panel replacement and now it is happening. There a couple places marked that don’t look that bad and some that look bad and are not marked. Maybe the problems are below the surface. Atascocita Shoires Drive has some rough spots but no markings there yet.

No rest stop today. I was hurrying to get back home for a Fedex delivery and I didn’t need to refill my water bottle.

With the front moving through later today I may not ride tomorrow because of cooler temperatures. I am in a good position goal wise.

Texas Bicycling News Digest November 6th 2017

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The Dallas Bike Ride Was Great (Unless You Were Driving a Car)

By Tim Rogers | www.dmagazine.com


On Saturday I took part in the first annual Dallas Bike Ride, along with about 3,000 other riders. I am declaring the event a huge success, with two caveats.
First, the good stuff: the 20-mile ride began and ended at City Hall. Especially considering this was the event�s inaugural year, I found the whole thing well-organized and a pleasure to participate in. My group of four riders all agreed that we plan to do it again next year, the main reason being that it is so dang fun to ride on Dallas city streets that have been cleared of cars. That�s the big selling point of …

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The Austin Mountain Bikers Meetup Group

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ARR – Reimer’s Ranch Pay Dirt Work Day 11/18/2017

Saturday, Nov 18, 2017, 9:00 AM

Reimers Ranch Park
23610 Hamilton Pool Road Dripping Springs, TX

10 Mountain Bikers Went

Help the Austin Ridge Riders Trail Crew clean up the trail and keep it in shape for riding. This is planned as a work day for NICA (high school) racers. Wear long pants and closed toe shoes. Bring water (Camelbak or water bottle) and gloves if you have them. ARR will provide tools (lopers, saws, shovels, buckets, etc.) and some gloves.This will be…

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Chumba / ARR – Muleshoe Bend Trail Work Day 11/18/2017

Saturday, Nov 18, 2017, 9:00 AM

Muleshoe Bend Recreation Area
2820 County Rd. 414 Spicewood, TX

10 Mountain Bikers Went

Help Chumba and the Austin Ridge Riders Trail Crew clean up the trail and keep it in shape for riding. Wear long pants and closed toe shoes. Bring water (Camelbak or water bottle) and gloves if you have them. ARR will provide tools (lopers, saws, shovels, buckets, etc.) and some gloves.The exact work is still being planned (will be posted soon).  …

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Suspect on bicycle flees deadly shooting in southeast Houston

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — One person is dead after a shooting in southeast Houston. The shooting took place in the 2900 block of Isabella at about 5:20 a.m.
Police said witnesses reported hearing numerous gunshots in the area. Afterwards, they spotted the victim lying in the street and …

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Surprise Encounter at Stripes Bike Ride

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Central Standard Time has returned. It was daylight earlier today and I started the “New Caney – Roman Forest – Valley Ranch” bike ride earlier than usual at 10:16 AM. By then the summer like weather had warmed to 82 degrees (78% humidity) under a partly cloudy sky. No need for a long sleeve jersey on this bike ride so shorts and a short sleeve jersey were the attire. The wind was from the SW at 9 mph (or higher) pushing me to Roman Blvd. with less effort than I expected. The loop through Roman Forest was generally wind neutral so I rode at a good pace.

Once I was back to I-69/US59 for the ride back to Kingwood the headwind battled me most of the way.

The stop at the Stripes station at FM 1314 was long enough to refill my water bottle and walk out the back door. As I came out the door a man followed and asked me about my Stradalli. He knew a lot about the bike and we chatted a few minutes. I was surprised to have someone out of the blue talking about my bike. I got back on the Stradalli and headed to Briar Tree, Oakhurst and back to Kingwood.

Riding through Kingwood I had a tailwind most of the way. I finished the bike ride at 1:21 PM. The temperature was 87 (61% humidity) which is hot for November. Several records were set over the weekend in Houston. The weather forecast calls for a cool front Tuesday afternoon so I will need to ride early.

I adjusted my goal for the month to 360 miles, what I rode last November. As of this ride I am at 137 miles for the month.