Texas Bicycling News September 15th 2016

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Crews repair stream banks along Southern Walnut Creek Trail

by Pam LeBlanc

fitness.blog.austin360.com


Heads up, users of the Southern Walnut Creek Trail.
Crews with the city of Austin’s Public Works Department are working to repair the stream bank along the paved pathway, which is popular with bicyclists and hikers.
According to a press release from …

National Public Lands Day at Spring Creek Greenway

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Event category: General
Trail: Flintridge
Saturday, September 24, 2016 – 8:30am
Celebrate National Public Lands Day with us!
Bring your family, friends, or coworkers to spend the day outdoors giving back to your community by maintaining trails, picking up trash, and more. Your work will help ensure our public lands continue to be beautiful places for all to enjoy!
We will meet at: …

Family Work Day at 100 Acre Wood

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Event category: General
Trail: Cypress Creek MTB
Saturday, October 15, 2016 – 9:00am
Celebrate National Public Lands Day with us!
Bring your family, friends, or coworkers to spend the day outdoors giving back to your community by maintaining trails, picking up trash, and more. Your work will help ensure our public lands continue to be beautiful places for all to enjoy!
We will meet at: …

OAKS: Remember to follow the rules of the road

by Rhonda Oaks

lufkindailynews.com

I was concerned with two things when school started each year and neither had anything to do with education. My main concerns were whether I was going to get to ride my bike to school and if I was going to get the biggest box of Crayons.
Riding the few blocks to Trout Elementary required no more thought on my part than which route was the quickest. Safety definitely never crossed my mind. Some days after school, my sister and I were allowed to ride our …

BikeTexas Annual Membership Meeting 2016

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biketexas trek bike giveaway annual meeting Every September, BikeTexas members come together for the Annual Membership Meeting. We hear from board members and staff about where we are and where we’d like to be in the next year. We share successes and setbacks. And in 2016, we’re celebrating 25 years of bicycle advocacy in Texas!
We invite you to join us on …

Updates: Barton Hills, LAB Cesar Chavez Street Underpass, Adios Austin Music Hall [PICS]

by Mike Melanson

austinonabike.com


Out and about on the bike in recent days, I took some pics of some things around downtown I thought y’all might find interesting. I’ll leave out the various pics of cars parked in inappropriate places, save the first one. I was on Barton Hills Rd. when the trucks were still there putting the new two-way separated cycle track in, when I noticed this …

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$743M Texas-Sized 12-Lane Superhighway Coming to Austin

Chuck Harvey

www.constructionequipmentguide.com


The project was started in April and is expected to be complete in 2020.
Work started this year on a $743 million 183 South Expressway project in Austin that will widen U.S. 183 between U.S. 290 and SH 71 into a Texas-sized 12-lane superhighway. The project was started in April and is expected to be complete in 2020.
The 8-mi. (13 km) stretch of highway currently carries about 60,000 vehicles a day. The new …

… The Montopolis Truss Bridge over the Colorado River will be decommissioned from vehicular traffic and preserved as a bicycle and pedestrian bridge. A new bridge will be constructed to carry vehicle traffic over the Colorado River. …

2016 Camp Eagle SuperD Race – Full Raw Run

by TC

www.turnincranks.com

2016 Texas State SuperD Championships!
Men’s Open
The full run with raw audio. …

Teen on bicycle hit near Cinco Ranch High School in Katy area

By Dale Lezon

www.chron.com

A 15-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital Wednesday morning after a vehicle hit him as he rode his bicycle near Cinco Ranch High School in Fort Bend County.
The incident happened about 6 a.m on the Grand Parkway near Cinco Ranch Boulevard, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said …

Child on bicycle hit by vehicle in Round Rock

by CBS Austin

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Round Round Police say a child on a bicycle was hit by a car on Wednesday afternoon.
RRPD says Gattis School Road at Double Creek Drive and South Creek is shut down in all directions. …

Captain’s Blog – 09/14/2016 – Jazz is Alive, and So is the Cycling in South Texas

by Peter Ray

cycling.powweb.com


…People who know me well know how much I love the city of San Antonio, particularly from September through May, or as I like to say, from Jazz Alive through Fiesta. September in South Texas is like April up north, when folks who have been trapped in their homes all winter finally emerge from their cabins to enjoy the great outdoors. It is the opposite for us down here – we crawl out of our air conditioned cocoons in September to once again breathe in the blue sky and walk in the wide open spaces of Texas with friends and family. And, there is no better way to do this then to hang out in the newly …

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Texas Enduro Cup Series – Lone Star Enduro – Stage Preview::Mind The Gap

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Will the Houston Bike Plan End the Battle Between Bicyclists and Drivers?

By Meagan Flynn

www.houstonpress.com


The doctors were thrilled that he had beaten the odds, a 20 percent chance of survival after he was run over by a truck. But when 47-year-old Kyle Zumoff woke up in his hospital bed, poked with IVs and stiff in a neck brace, his first thought was that he would rather be dead.
He couldn’t move his right leg or his foot, held together by pins and metal rods. He had tubes down his throat and up his nose to help him breathe and eat. He had a broken pelvis, a broken shoulder, a broken foot, two shattered shins and a …

2016 Dirt Derby Unlimited Season Pass

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Tuesday, September 20, 2016 6:30 PM
Unlimited Season pass is good for all beginner, intermediate, and open races (Only counts for 1 persons entry in relay) for the 2016 Fall season which runs September 20, 2016 for 8 weeks and has two possible rain outs dates November 15 & 22. We will have a master list of season pass holders at registration each week. Please make sure you have an i.d. so we can confirm the …

City begins work on new urban trails

by Cate Malek

www.austinmonitor.com


Two new urban trails are set to begin construction next March, providing more options for Austinites who prefer to go carless.
Teams should complete work on the Upper Boggy Creek Trail, serving neighborhoods on the east side, in November 2017. And work on a new section of the 30-mile Violet Crown Trail North, located in the Oak Hills Neighborhood off of MoPac in South Austin, should be finished in March 2018. Both trails will be wide, multi-use trails, meant as much for people commuting by …

Remembering Those Who Died on Their Bikes

By Gilbert Bernal

www.houstonpress.com


On 09/04/2016, Houston Ghost Bikes, placed a bicycle on a telephone pole near the site where Wesley Edward Mein was struck while walking his bike along the east bound service road in the 15530 of East Freeway on October 14, 2014.

Eighth Houston Cyclist of the Year Hit and Killed Last Night

By Meagan Flynn

www.houstonpress.com


A bicyclist was hit and killed Monday evening around 8:45 on Mykawa Road near Fuqua Street in southeast Houston, according to police.
Police say the driver of a Toyota Corolla hit the 31-year-old male cyclist from behind on a poorly lit section of the road, traveling in the same direction as the cyclist, whose identity is pending verification. …

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Texas Enduro Cup Series :: Lone Star Enduro :: Stage Preview – SnakeSkin

by rugger

www.bikemojo.com

I’ll be post all 5 stage previews on my YouTubes very soon – at least 2 more within a couple days.

Girl struck while crossing street on bike flown to local hospital

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HEWITT, Texas (KWTX) Police were investigating Monday after a 12-year-old girl was struck as she and another girl attempted to ride their bicycles across a busy street in Hewitt.
The girl, whose name has not been released, was taken first to Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest Medical Center in Waco and then was flown to McLane Children’s Hospital in Temple in …

BRAT4: Mexico to Canada Bike Ride

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This long-distance bicycle ride as a laboratory for college students to practice the skills of leadership, teamwork, and organization seems to be taking on a life of its own. What started off as a one-time ride across Texas has grown into three trans-Texas rides and, most recently, one from the border with Mexico to the border with Canada. For nearly three weeks this past May and June, a group of 10 students, faculty, and friends rode as a team from …

Any success in bike theft recovery?

by funkymonk26

BikingATX www.reddit.com

I had a women’s Specialized road bike stolen from my garage on Saturday at 3:00 PM. I filed a police report on Saturday and gave the detective the serial number today. My roommate left and I asked him to leave the garage door open since we were right behind him and within 10 mins the bike was stolen. The Specialized was leaning against my Balance bike and we had two other Specialized mountain bikes hanging but they were only interested in the one that was worth the most. I take responsibility for allowing the garage door to be …

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