A cool front moved into southeast Texas overnight lowering the temperature this morning when I got up to 45 degrees. By the time I started the bike ride at 12:16 it was up to 67 degrees but the brisk North wind had a chilling bite to it. So I wore leg warmers, shorts, a thermal long sleeve jersey and a new windbreaker jacket to bicycle 35.1 miles. To be different I chose the “Oakhurst – Cumberland – Valley Ranch” route, same streets and roads but in a different sequence.
Whenever the roads turned to a direction with “north” in it my pedaling and speed dropped. The wind chill was noticeable but I was comfortable. It wasn’t until I turned around at Cumberland that wind stopped slowing me down and became a tailwind. Up to that point my average speed was 13.6 mph but from there I built it up to 14.6 mph at the highest and fell once I was back in Kingwood maneuvering around corners, speed humps and stops signs.
About 2 miles into the ride I stopped to take a picture of a brilliantly colored azalea with my bike but it came out blurry. Maybe too much color and sun. The clouds of yesterday were long gone leaving a clear blue sky.
Finishing the bike ride at 2:51 my legs rejoiced from fighting the wind and my face warmed up without the chilly wind hitting it anymore.
AUSTIN, Texas — A local brewery is offering free beer for a year in exchange for the return of a bike that was stolen from one of their employees.
Oskar Blues Brewery in Austin said the bicycle belongs to Caitlin Bursack, their Texas sales manager. It was stolen on …
Day 42: Benavides, TX to Falfurrias, TX
Wednesday February 22, 2017, 43 miles (69 km) – Total so far: 2,082 miles (3,351 km)
As I was packing up my things, Freddie came and very generously invited me in for breakfast. I had a potato and egg taco which was very nice. Freddie also gave me a cross which he makes out of the nails for horse shoes, as well as a heart to give my mum. Thanks Freddie! …
Day 43: Falfurrias,TX to Hargill, TX
Thursday February 23, 2017, 60 miles (97 km) – Total so far: 2,142 miles (3,447 km)
I woke up, packed, and left Pealdo’s shop without incident. I was riding on a fairly big divided highway, which I haven’t done for a while. There was initially some fog but it didn’t last long. …
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Day 35: Fast as we can to Texas and back!
Friday February 24, 2017, 40 miles (64 km) – Total so far: 1,175 miles (1,891 km)
Today we ride the 20 miles to Texas, take a pic and ride back to pickup our rental car. Crazy! What a moment, to finally reach Texas!
Our Local MPO is asking for Input on proposals for bicycle and pedestrian facilities across the region. They Are….
Hillcrest/Babcock Intersection Improvements: $1,000,000
Converse Greenway Trail: $1,382,725
Ackerman Sidewalks and Bike Lanes: $1,742,763
New Braunfels Citywide Pedestrian Connectivity: $1,516,711
Zarzamora Pedestrian Improvements: $5,000,000
Schertz Pedestrian Routes & Bike Lanes: $1,158,266
Seguin, Walnut Springs Trail Extension Project: $2,801,246
Alazan Creek Linear Hike and Bike Trail: $6,000,000
Martinez Creek Linear Hike and Bike Trail: $3,125,000
If you add all the amounts together, you get $23,726,671. Unfortunately, there’s only $15,000,000 available for …
Vintage cars, giant cactus, public art, friendly folks – I saw all those things this week on my daily commute to work.
What do you see on your way to the office? Send me pictures, and I’ll share some of them here each week.
1. I’ve ogled a VW bus parked in front of a house along Shoal Creek Boulevard for years. I finally stopped, knocked on the door of the house where it lives, and asked if I could snap a few pictures. That bus reminds me of one we had when I was growing up. We had two, actually – a green …
Many of us will be racing at Pace Bend on Sunday, so that will change up the rides and crew a bit.
Saturday Jason has proposed heading down to Mellow Johnny’s. The pace will likely be quite a bit more friendly since the racers will be doing something else for a …
I haven’t made it out to Pace Bend in a while so I was inspired by Alex Chamberlain’s KOM attempt to head out and try to bag a couple myself.
I picked up one easy and semi-obscure KOM so it’s hard to brag about that one. I would have been more proud of some new PR’s and/or a …
Cycling is an amazing way to commute (& be healthy!). However, if you're driving and see cyclists – you can share the road safely: https://t.co/IZMR5PapFB
The blue sky left the area today replaced by a mostly cloudy sky but the warm temperature stayed behind. It was 82 degrees when I finished biking the “Atascocita South – Walden – Huffman” route at 2:16. I started bicycling on the ride at 11:47 and rode 33.98 miles. The wind was stronger at 12 mph from the northwest. This probably explains why it took so much effort to maintain 17 to 19 mph speeds going north. Cycling east on FM 1960 over Lake Houston a jogger was going west as we passed and he shouted out to me to enjoy the tailwind as I headed east. The tailwind helped and I improved my average speed on that stretch.
At Huffman I turned west and the wind tried to slow me down as I bicycled on FM 1960. I made across the lake and because the earlier went west of Pinehurst Trail I stayed on FM 1960 to there and then went north rather than the usual route on Atascocita Shores. I like this route because I ride around the small hills. I passed another biker on Pinehurst Trail and we exchanged waves.
There was an attempted dog chase on Aerobic Drive. I say attempted because I saw the dog up ahead in a yard on my right as he ducked behind a car. As I got closer I heard him barking as he came from behind the car running on the concrete driveway. He was a Corky type of dog with short legs and longer body. The legs were spinning but the speed wasn’t there and I rode away from him.
February mileage is up to 426.89 miles. I have the days left to exceed my goal by more than 100 miles.
McKinney has mapped out some bike routes and signposted them as bike boulevards.
There are claims that the motivation was to get bicyclists off McKinney’s main thoroughfares and onto neighborhood streets. I dunno, maybe, I mean that kind of thing has been going on in Texas since 1971 or so. Or maybe the city council wanted to say they ‘did something’ about, or for, the bicyclists, or maybe the …
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M has teamed up with the company Zagster to offer bikes on campus.
The bikes have been available for the last two weeks, however, on Wednesday was the big launch where students could …
Faced with one of the largest campuses and student bodies in the nation, Texas A&M Transportation Services hopes to alleviate some of the transportation needs on campus with a new bike share program.
In the past two weeks, 10 bike stands with 75 bright white bikes have popped up across the campus as …
BSS South to Mountain City and Back – 47 Miles
Saturday, Feb 25, 2017, 8:00 AM
bicycle sports shop 517 S. Lamar Blvd Austin, TX
1 Austin Cyclists Went
This route is the standard South Austin Out-and-Back with a few stop lights and mostly flat. We will go to Buda and then just keep going to Mountain City, stop for refueling, then ride back. The ride is no drop and the pace will average 15-16ish mph so be sure you can maintain that ride pace. Regular bikes welcome, recumbents worshipped. Post-ride …
Shell Station at Trans Mountain and I 10 6990 N Desert Blvd & Transmountain Dr El Paso, TX
3 Cyclists Went
We will start at 9:30 from the Shell Station at Trans Mountain and I 10 and do loops from the bike path on the north side of Transmountain & I 10 thru  Tom Mays and back.  hope to do 3 – 4 loops.• Avg Pace Group Rides: (Group A 18-20 mph)   (Group B 14-17 mph)Ride Leaders:Bob WiggsSue O’Connor -[masked] email:  [masked]
Bid Date & Time: 03/08/17 2:00 PM Prebid: 03/02/17 10:00 AM
Solicitation Title: Temporary Fencing & Bike Rack/crowd Control Panels for Special Events
Owner Solic Number: 504-17 Status: bidding Report: 7590932
Country : United States State: TX County: Dallas
Location: Richardson
Scope: 2,000 FT of 6 FT. tall privacy screen, event rate, without installation. 2,000 feet of bike rack/crowd control panels, event rate, with installation
Notes: Pre-bid conference Mar 2, 2017 10:00:00 am cst attendance is optional location: a pre -bid conference will be held on Thursday, march 2, 2017 at the civic center/city hall, Richardson, Texas 75080 in the parks conference room at 10:00 a. M. Central time. It is highly recommended that all bidders attend the pre-bid conference. For more …
