Texas Bicycling News Digest October 7th 2017

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‘Like a family reunion’: Veterans join Bush for bike ride at his Texas ranch

Claire Ballor | www.dallasnews.com


Some of the wounded veterans rode bikes designed to accommodate missing limbs, while others carried invisible scars on the 40-mile ride. …

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Waco: Free bike helmets distributed at Cultural Arts Festival

By Chelsea Edwards | www.kwtx.com


WACO, Texas (KWTX) The McLennan County Medical Society is distributing 400 free bicycle helmets this weekend at the Cultural Arts Festival in Waco.
The helmets are available from …

Bike rider finds decomposed body at Medina Base Road Park

By Alexandro M. Luna | www.mysanantonio.com

A body was discovered at Medina Base Road Park Saturday morning by a bike rider.
San Antonio Police Department spokesman officer Douglas Greene said officers responded to a call about 10:30 a.m. after a dirt bike rider at the Southwest Side park noticed a foul odor.
Greene said the rider noticed an …

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Ever thought about road racing, but wondered where to start? Join the Violet Crown Women’s Race Team on October 13th at 6pm at Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop for an information session about our 2018 race team!
The Team has an open enrollment for the 2018 season and requires no race experience. We’ll go …

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Guardrail Flip, Ice Bags Slip Bike Ride

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Before heading out on today’s bike ride I watched the Il Lombardia race on EuroSport from Italy. This is the final World Tour race of the season. For some reason the only video was without commentators but with the sounds of the people and whatever was happening. One rider took a corner too fast, went over the guardrail, down a hill with his bike flipping in the air. It looked very bad. Later I read that he was okay and went to the hospital. What a way to end the season!!

My bike ride was no where as dramatic as that. Bicycling the “Kingwood – SH 242 – Kingwood” route to the north the 8 mph wind tried to slow me down but I pedaled hard and made it to the turn around at SH 242. The sky was overcast and some of the pavement damp from either the high humidity (86%) or maybe an earlier shower. At the 10:56 AM start the temperature was 76 which made me wonder how long I will be wearing short sleeve jerseys on ride. Supposedly a cool front will arrive the middle of next week dropping the highs from the 80’s to the 70’s. By the time I finished (1:30 PM) it was 87 degrees with 78% humidity making for a muggy ride. My jersey was clinging to me at the end from all of the sweat.

I made a quick stop at the New Caney Mobil station for ice and water to get me home. While I was there a truck pulled up to deliver ice. I chatted with the driver and watched how they had a slick way to unload the ice bags and put them in the storage boxes outside the store. One man was inside the truck throwing the ice bags to rear of the truck where a slick piece of cardboard or paneling was. As the bag hit the cardboard it slid into the hands of the man on the sidewalk who quickly threw it into the storage box. It only took a few minutes to empty a pallet into the two storage boxes.

Leaving the Mobil station I rode south and thanks to the 8 mph wind I continued using the higher gear and kept a 18 to 20 mph pace. This helped me boost my overall average speed to 15.0 mph and keep it there until I started back into Kingwood.

I will take tomorrow off to watch the Houston Astros play the Boston Red Sox in game 3 of the ALDS. The Astros are up 2 games to none.

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Strava Bicycle Ride Summary

Texas Bicycling News Digest October 6th 2017

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The 2017 National Bike Challenge

National Bike Challenge

The 2017 National Bike Challenge has come to a close and we wanted to extend a HUGE thank you for your participation this year. Together, we rode over 31.5 million miles this summer, exceeding our national goal, and had over 30,000 participants sharing rides and stories from all over the country. We could not have done it without you! …
Advocacy Challenge Winner (25+ participants): Bike Youngstown
Individual Challenge Winner: Amanda Coker
Bike Club Winner: Shawnee Trail Cycling Club
Bike Shop Winner: Richardson Bike Mart of Richardson, TX
Business Winner: 3M Bicycle Users Group
University Winner: Utah State University
Community Winner: Lincoln, Nebraska
State Winner: Wisconsin

Bike registration to become mandatory

By Kenya Robinson | www.thebatt.com


Transportation services looks to build a more complete database
Mandatory bike registration will go into effect next month in order to have a more accurate database of bikes on campus.
Beginning Nov. 1, Texas A&M Transportation Services will require all students, faculty and staff to complete full registration of their bikes. Cyclists can register their bikes for free online until Oct. 31. After Nov. 1, all campus bike riders must pay a one time fee of …

Thursday Morning Cruise

Thursday, Oct 12, 2017, 7:45 AM

Starbucks
7049 S Desert (Outlet Mall) Canutillo, TX

3 Cyclists Went

Meet at 7:45 am at Starbucks at the Outlet Mall in Canutillo. Ride out at 8:00. 20-25 miles at 14-16 mph pace. Mostly flat, a few hills. Breakfast someplace after the ride. Bob Clark,[masked]

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Texas Cycle Werks South Austin Trail Rides

Thursday, Oct 12, 2017, 6:00 PM

Texas Cycle Werks
5446 US-290 #103 Austin, TX

4 Mountain Bikers Went

Texas Cycle Werks, proud sponsors of the ATX100K endurance race series, hosts weekly shop rides each Tuesday and Thursday leaving from the shop in south Austin and heading out to the South Austin Trail Network and/or Barton Creek Greenbelt.  Rides vary in length and difficulty based on who all shows up and wants to do what.Location:Texas Cycle We…

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MODERATE PACE, RELATIVELY FLAT CORNFIELD TOUR 25 MILES

Thursday, Oct 12, 2017, 6:15 PM

Old Settlers Park
3300 E Palm Valley Blvd Round Rock, TX

4 Austin Cyclists Went

The map above is incorrect so please meet at the parking lot below.Join Bill Pappin on a nice moderately paced road ride in the east Round Rock Cornfields, average pace between 14 to 18 mph, the total ride distance is approximately 25 miles with several turn around spots, total ride time is usually about 2 hours.This is a ride geared towards adv…

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This weekend’s rides: Andice! Red Horn!

by Thomas | steinerranchcycling.com

We have some big organized rides coming up soon (Livestrong, Tour de Cure, etc.) so we need to stretch our legs on some longer rides. Saturday we will go to Andice! It’s about 80 miles and the simple out-and-back route can be found here: …

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Not Alone Bicycle Ride

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Another bike ride on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. The fall weather continues with the temperature at 82 when I started at 10:58 AM. The partly cloudy sky added to the fall feel and the 6 mph east breeze was enough to help keep from perspiring too much. It was 85 when I finished at 1:21 PM I biked 32.1 miles.

Surprisingly I saw another biker at Old Atascocita Road and FM 2100. We exchanged waves as we crossed FM 2100 he riding west and me riding east.

No rest stop today because I was hurrying to get back home to watch the Houston Astros play the Boston Red Sox in game 2 of the ALDS. Thanks to the DVR we can catch up.

More great riding weather tomorrow, Saturday.

National Bike Challenge standings as of today

National Bike Challenge

Strava Ride Summary (click on the image to got to Strava.com)

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