Texas Bicycling News Digest June 8th

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1000-Mile Bike Ride for Project Transformation: June 2015

www.northtexasumc.org


From Dallas to Nashville June 2015
This past spring University Park United Methodist Church (UPUMC) passed a proposal to relocate the Project Transformation (PT) offices to unused space in their building. In celebration of this partnership and to help welcome PT to the neighborhood, avid cyclist and lead pastor of UPUMC, Matt Gaston, will take part in Pedal for PT, the audacious challenge of riding a bike from Dallas to Nashville, Tennessee.
Leaving from Dallas on Wednesday, June 10, 2015, Pastor Matt and various others will pedal more …

A Bike Ride To Bring Awareness to Bullying and Child Obesity

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DALLAS (Wbap/KLIF 24/7 News) – A North Texas woman wants to bring awareness to what she calls an epidemic.  Danielle Girdano says childhood obesity is one hundred percent preventable and she should know because she is a survivor of both.  Girdano plans to ride her bike along Route 66 from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California in September in 43 days, trying to break the world record of …

Jack Brooks Trails Work Party

GHORBA.org


Event category: General
Saturday, June 20, 2015 – 10:00am
Come out for a little trail rehab. We will be moving dirt onto the trails to fill mud spots.

Bike World Adds Katy Store

www.houstonchronicle.com

Bike World has signed a 10,000-square-foot lease in phase II of Katy Ranch Crossing at the southeast corner of Interstate 10 and Katy Fort Bend Road. Lilly Golden of Evergreen Commercial Realty represented the landlord. Joshua Sebesta with United Equities represented the tenant.

Tom Mays Park/Transmountain

Sunday, Jun 14, 2015, 7:30 AM

River Run Plaza
1071 Country Club Rd El Paso, TX

8 Cyclists Went

Leave at 7:30 a.m. from River Run Plaza. Head to Transmountain, ride up bike path until it merges to main road, then continue to the turnoff to Tom Mays unit of Franklin Mtns St Park. Regroup at park, then return for break at Starbucks at0 Outlet Mall. 25 miles. 13-15 mph. Good for new climbers! Pat or Bettie Bell,[masked]

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Texas retailers win a trip to Shimano’s factories

by BRAIN Staff        www.bicycleretailer.com


IRVINE, Calif. (BRAIN) — A Texas retailer whose employee completed the one millionth Shimano S-TEC training module has won a trip to Japan to visit the component giant’s factories.
Jake VanderVaate of Cadence Cyclery in Highland Village, Texas, won the golden ticket to Japan for himself and shop owner Chad Plumlee. The two leave in October to visit the firm’s main factory at its global headquarters in Sakai City, Osaka, along with a group of independent bicycle dealers invited by …

Hans Johnsen names Jeff Cavicchi national sales manager

by BRAIN Staff        www.bicycleretailer.com

DALLAS (BRAIN) — Jeff Cavicchi has been named national sales manager for the Hans Johnsen Company and its two subsidiaries Downeast Bicycle Specialists and Wilson Bicycle Sales.
This is a newly created position for the Hans Johnsen Company, and the company said Cavicchi will play a key role in the joining of the three separate warehouses into one national voice.
“Since Hans Johnsen’s purchase of Downeast in 2013, Jeff has been a leader in bringing the three companies …

2015 – Flat Rock Ranch Mountain Bike Race

Cooper Sellers

WG Jones State Forest Mountain Biking

Canuck Texan

2015 DORBA Prayer Mountain Pedal Mountain Bike Race

Cooper Sellers

GATEWAY PARK COLLECTION1

On Story Street & flashPress

Mountain Bike Ride on Lindsey Park trails, Tyler, TX

William Daugherty

Mountain Biking Pt. 1

Ryan McCully

Mountain Biking Pt. 2

Ryan McCully

Mountain Bike Jump OP Schnabel Park ( Crashes and Faceplant)

Dakota R

DFR Blame it on the Rain: Warda, Texas

mercedesdrummond

New Events Added to Texbiker.net Calendar

Tweets About Texas Bicycling

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Texas Bicycling Upcoming Event Reminders

Combining Roads for a New Route

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Combining roads I rode before into a new route produced today’s route, “New Caney – Casey Ridge – Roman Forest – 242- FM1314 – New Caney”. In the quest for variety I came up with this route. I wasn’t sure how many miles this would be but while I was riding I did some guesses of around 37 miles. It turned out to be 36.72 miles. All the roads are north and west of the Grand Parkway construction. Some roads are the smoothest though. riding through Casey Ridge the streets in some sections are a series of asphalt patches. Nothing dangerous but I was frequently out of the saddle to minimize the bumps. From Casey ridge I entered the southeast corner of Roman Forest and the streets smoothed out. I created a long route name to differentiate this from routes using the same roads.

FM1485 shoulders narrow in a few places going east from New Caney. I think this is a result of the recent resurfacing and line painting. A few of the narrow spots hug the guardrail over drainage ditches in corners. The rest of the shoulder averages 4 feet and is smooth.

With good roads I pedaled around 18 to 20 mph except when I encountered some small inclines which seemed to also be going into the light breeze. Overall I averaged 15.7 mph but at times I averaged as much as 16.0 mph. Most of the ride averaged 15.8 or 15.9 mph. The average speed dropped to 15.7 when I stopped at the Mobil station at US59 and FM1485 to get ice and top off my water bottle for the drive home. This was across US59 from the Brookshire Brothers store parking lot where I parked the Jeep.

ON SH 242 about 2 miles west of US59 I looked in my rear view mirror when I heard a siren approaching. A motorcycle officer was coming from the rear. When he was beside me he warned me about a wide load coming. The shoulder is about 6 feet wide where this took place and I moved to the right edge and slowed. A convoy passed with a heavy duty truck pulling a trailer with many small wheels and a truck pushing the rear of the trailer. A huge windpower turbine took up most of the flatbed trailer. Not too long after the first one another passed me. Oncoming traffic crowded to the left shoulder to give the convoy clearance. The trucks disappeared in the distance. When I got to the SH 242 and FM1485 junction the convoy was parked at the Chevron store. I went inside to refill my water bottle and saw everyone was taking a lunch break. Here are some pictures of the convoy.

It several minutes for me to eat a trail mix bar, whole grain fruit bar and drink some ice water. I figured the convoy would continue on SH 242 where I was going so I wanted to get a head start to maybe avoid them by the time I got to FM1314. I rode SH 242 and got to FM1314 before the convoy. I took a left onto FM1314 for the ride back to New Caney. No more wide loads came my way.

Gene Campbell Road took me from FM1314 to FM1485 and the last 2+ miles to the Brookshire Brothers parking lot. The lane going to FM1485 on Gene Campbell Road needs some repairs. All of the heavy trucks going to and from Walmart and the other businesses are breaking up the asphalt requiring me to stay near the center line in several places.

I left Brookshire Brothers at 10:59 and returned at 1:39. The weather was hot (91 degrees) with partly cloudy sky but the wind was light most of the ride.

My legs did great during the ride. There are a few inclines on this route but nothing serious.

New Caney weather at the start
Weather during the stop at SH242 and FM1485
New Caney weather at the finish

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Texas Bicycling News Digest June 7th

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Theft: Bike rack cleaned out in Downtown Fort Worth

by ZedHead88        www.reddit.com

I am new to cycling and was very excited to get a couple nice bikes with my girlfriend when moving into the Firestone Apartments Downtown. Sadly, I am away on business for 25 days in Australia.. but my girlfriend notified me our bikes, along with all bikes on the rack, were all stole. That’s about 25+ bikes!! Our bikes became a way of life, we grew to really love them.. So my girlfriend is pretty upset, especially since i’m not there to help.
Our block of the community is gated with cameras and normally very secure. Lately they have been messing with the gate system installing a new key fob way to enter the building. Because of this, they …

HBC Zube Park Ride

Houston Bicycle Club

Cypress, TX        Sat 06/20/15    8:00 AM
Distances: 33(B), 40(C), 49(C) miles
Flat county roads in Harris, Waller, and Montgomery Counties. Pay attention to the map – there are a lot of turns. Only one store on the route.

Cyclists with Texas 4000 will roll through Farmington this week

By Dan Schwartz The Daily Times


Annual ride from Austin to Anchorage raises awareness for those who fight cancer
FARMINGTON — A pack of cyclists riding from Austin, Texas, to Anchorage, Alaska, to raise awareness about cancer are on schedule to roll through Farmington next week.
At least 70 students from the University of Texas at Austin have been training and fundraising for 18 months for the ride, which …

4th of July Memorial Ride…

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Tweets About Texas Bicycling

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Deer On Fairlake Drive

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I saw two deer on Fairlake Drive during today’s ride on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. I also saw 5 other bikers along the route. Even with it being summer type heat we bicyclists and deer are out and about. 97 degrees when I got home on my weather station. I think that is a few degrees higher than it might be though. The weather sensor is in full sun and the internal fan may not be working like it should. I will check into that this afternoon.

After yesterday’s Spindletop Spin ride I continue the quest for miles to reach 968 miles for June. With today’s 31.33 miles the month’s total is 244.92. I have a ways to go but that is the most miles I biked in one week this year. The sunny rain-free weather plus hot temperatures are helping me. Average speed today was 15.1 mph with a maximum average speed of 15.4 mph. I thought the 51.8 miles on Saturday might make my legs slow but it wasn’t the case. The wind was light and I rode between 17 to 20 mph most of the time. The stops and starts are what make the average speed difficult to increase.

The break at the Huffman Chevron was shorter than normal today. The Powerade on the fountain machine is out so I just drank ice water from my water bottle and with a whole grain fruit bar.

Huffman weather during the rest stop

Huffman weather during the rest stop

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