Texas Bicycling News April 14th

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Bike programs in Houston, San Antonio on different paths

by Dug Begley        blog.chron.com


According to recent reports, San Antonio’s bike-sharing system is struggling. Uunless a corporate sponsor can be recruited soon, the program making bikes available for rent at kiosks could be kaput.
It would be a big setback for a city that embraced biking before some other Texas cities, including Houston. Here’s a synopsis from Next City:
Since its launch in 2011, San Antonio B-Cycle has operated primarily off revenue from annual memberships and daily user fees, with some small grants from foundations and contributions from minor sponsors, a financial model that left them nearly $32,000 in the red in 2013. Like many systems, San Antonio has a nonprofit, San Antonio Bike Share, in charge of operations and contracts with a bike-share company, B-Cycle, to maintain the bikes and stations. But unlike …

The Austin Mountain Bikers Meetup Group

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3,936 Mountain Bikers

Meet other local mountain bikers to organize rides, review trails, gear and trade tips. All skill-levels welcome. We’ll try to organize rides that fit all experience levels. M…

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Wounded veteran tries cycling

By Harrison Grimwood Phoenix Staff Writer        www.muskogeephoenix.com


Chuck Ivey was training with the U.S. Army on the side of a mountain in Korea when he tore his meniscus, leaving a lasting injury. …

… Now, Jason Denny, another veteran, is working with Ivey to help his knee. Denny has been training Ivey, a Fort Gibson resident, to bicycle 480 miles in the high heat of the Texas Challenge. …

FR512 Intermediate Ride Emma Long. Open to non-members.

Monday, Apr 20, 2015, 5:15 PM

City Park – Emma Long Motorcycle Trails
7548 Oak Shores Dr Austin, TX

16 Mountain Bikers Went

Start your week off right with Freeride512 at a casual INTERMEDIATE level ride at City Park (Emma Long) on Monday April 20th. I am describing this ride as intermediate because of the technical nature of the terrain, not the pace of the ride. This will be a no drop ride that will focus on improving skills and confidence by sessioning spots or featur…

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FREE Clinic Brake, Derailleur & Gear Clinic

Thursday, Apr 23, 2015, 6:00 PM

Performance Bicycle
7549 Westheimer Rd Houston, TX

2 Cycling Enthusiasts Went

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FREE Clinic Brake, Derailleur & Gear Clinic

Thursday, Apr 23, 2015, 6:00 PM

Performance Bicycle
4750 Fm 1960 Rd W Houston, TX

4 Bicycle Enthusiasts Went

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Why More and More Austinites Are Choosing Bikes to Get Around

By Terrence Henry        kut.org


We’ve all felt Austin’s growing pains: traffic, high rents, rapidly rising home values, and the higher property taxes that come with them. And we tend to drown these pains in queso and beer, so we’re probably putting on some weight, too. But what if there were an easy way out of all of this?
Some Austinites, like Mike Melanson, have found one. “A congestion-free way of getting around, a way that doesn’t cost me money, a …

Ride 2 Recovery – Rider of the Week


Karlous Davis
U.S. army
Name: Charles Davis aka Karlous
Hometown: San Antonio, Tx
Quote to live by: LOVE YOUR ENEMIES
Favorite place you’ve rode: Virginia & Texas
One word describing why you ride: PEACEFUL
Favorite sports team: Dallas Cowboys/San Antonio Spurs
Mentor: MY Parents …

Penticton’s Steve Brown announces Ultra Texas event

www.pentictonwesternnews.com

Steve Brown, owner and race organizer of ULTRA520K announced Monday that an agreement has been reach with Rick Kent of Austin Texas to host the first ULTRA520K Texas in Marble Falls this September.
“Rick Kent, well known photographer, Ultraman finisher and RAAM Finisher among many other athletic accomplishments is a great fit for this event”, said Brown in a press release. “Rick first expressed an interest in putting on a ultra distance event in Texas right after I established ULTRA520K. We are both very excited to make this announcement as Rick and I have been friends for several years and we both have a passion for the sport.”
While the license will be held and owned by Kent, the race director will be Mario Gonzales, founder of the award winning Marble Falls Triathlon for the past 15 years. “I had a chance to meet Mario on my …

FR512 Trail Work & Pay Dirt at Rocky Hill Ranch

Saturday, Apr 18, 2015, 11:00 AM

Location details are available to members only.

5 Mountain Bikers Went

If you haven’t heard, FR512 is building new trails at Rocky Hill Ranch!  Freeride512 builds and rides progressive mountain bike trails and features in and around Central Texas. We educate mountain bikers on the disciplines of all-mountain, downhill, and freeride mountain biking and help riders to progress their skills.We are currently building a c…

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Katy couple rides again in the MS 150

By Kimberly Piña        www.chron.com


When Wayne Freeman decided to start bike riding, his plan was to shed a few pounds and get in shape. Yet, a new hobby transformed into a dedicated passion leading the longtime Katy farmer to cycle 150 miles to raise money for research.
“When I got into cycling, I was working six to seven days on the farm and thought the guys I saw cycling on the street were nuts,” Freeman said. “The last thing I thought of as a recreational hobby was getting on a bike and riding 10, 20, 30 miles but now I have a new perspective.”
A healthier lifestyle, a community of cycling friends and a sport shared with his wife, Suzanne, are part of the new perspective Freeman gained. A cyclist now for more than eight years, Freeman will ride from Katy to …

Fun Bike Ride in Northeast El Paso

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04/25/2015 10:00 AM
@ Western Technical Institute
9451 Diana Dr
El Paso,  TX

USA Cycling report: Cyclocross didn’t harm Zilker trees

by Andra Lim        www.statesman.com

An arborist hired by USA Cycling has written a report saying the much-scrutinized cyclocross event at Zilker Park in January didn’t have a “detectable or significant” impact on the soil that helps nourish tree roots.
Those findings dispute the city’s assertion that 57 trees were affected by the Cyclocross National Championships, which involved bicyclists riding across the park, and dismounting and carrying their bikes around obstacles. In the process, …

Ridden & Reviewed: Mini Pump Shootout

by djcurtin        bicyclesportshop.wordpress.com

As the saying goes, when talking about repairing roadside punctures there are two kinds of people in this world: CO2 people and pump people.
For years I was a pump person. Specifically a frame pump person, as I am old enough to remember when such devices were ubiquitous in that mini pumps were truly worthless and CO2 inflators weren’t entirely reliable and the cartridges seemingly weren’t as readily available.
Fast forward to the 90’s and beyond and I had converted. I had abandoned the Zefal and Silica (with Campagnolo head) frame pumps of my youth for the ease and speed of CO2 inflators. No more exhaustion just to reach 65 psi on a road tire and tube set-up needing at least 90 psi. No more breaking …

El Paso firefighters rescue mountain bikers

By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times

A rescue team was dispatched Tuesday afternoon to help two bicyclists on a mountain trail who called 911 because they felt weak and only had 7 percent power left on their only cellphone, El Paso Fire Department officials said.
The two men, ages 29 and 30, were on a trail on the Tom Mays Trail at Franklin Mountains State Park. The men called for help at about 1 p.m. and the rescue team reached them at …

Cyclists show off team spirit, jerseys on BP MS 150

By Joy Sewing        www.chron.com


The Karbach Brewing Company’s 170-member cycling team has its priorities in order for this weekend’s BP MS150.
“We love to ride bikes, we love to raise a ton of money for a great cause, and we love to drink beer,” said the team’s captain, Adam LeSage.
Their team jersey reflects those passions. It’s called the Weekend Warrior American Style Pale Ale jersey, named for the Karbach brew, and features the …

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Texas Cycling News Digest April 13th

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Photos of the Lancaster Country Ride are posted

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Denton Bicycle Coalition

Friday, May 1 at 7:00pm – 9:00pm in CDT
1223 Bellemead Drive, Denton, TX 76201
I think and feel that the time is right to organize and grow a unified voice for bicyclists of all kinds to encourage more bike ridership and make the streets of Denton more bike-friendly. I am interested in getting the wheels turning to organize the Denton Bicycle Coalition (DBC) for the purpose of engaging in advocacy, education, and community building in the City of Denton. There are many bicycle-friendly businesses, groups, and individuals, but no …

Photos of Ride Ataxia Dallas are Posted

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Mountain biking in Texas

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Success! Mirror Provision Removed from HB 383

BikeTexas

Thank you! Thanks to your calls and emails, Rep. McClendon has removed the mirror provision from HB 383. Great work!
We expect some of the bills that matter to people who ride bikes in Texas to come before the House Transportation Committee later this week. Is your representative on the transportation committee? (Find out who your representative is here.) If so, keep an eye on your inbox and the BikeTexas pages for a call to reach out to your rep and ask for his or her vote.
Thanks again, Texas! Because of you, our …

thinkEAST Got Me Thinking About Divides

Austin On A Bike

This past weekend, I made it out to the thinkEAST festival for the final day, somehow crawling out from the rock I’ve apparently been hiding under to not know this awesome thing had been going on for weeks.
For those of you similarly uninitiated, the property where the festival resides and soon a community will sit, according to the thinkEAST blog, “is a 24 acre site located on a former EPA Brownfields that housed jet fuel storage tanks for the nearby Air Force base (now Austin Bergstrom International Airport). For years, the neighborhood smelled of gasoline, residents were getting sick, and …

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Rain Disappears and I Ride

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At 8 o’clock this morning it looked like it was going to rain all day but by 10:30 the rain left and the sun came out. The roads started drying off and at 11:45 I rolled out the driveway to begin the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. The weather was great with the temperature ranging from 81 to 86 degrees. The SSW wind was 10 mph or less. It was great riding since I didn’t get to ride yesterday (Sunday) for a couple of reasons: on and off rain and my 2013 Jeep Wrangler would not start. The rain would go away long enough for the streets to dry off. I had more success with the Wrangler. I took the battery out to have it tested which turned out to be in good shape. I brought it home, put it back in the Wrangler and it started. Not sure what happened but I am glad.

I was up early this morning to take our other Jeep (Grand Cherokee) to a dealer in Cleveland to check why the engine malfunction light is on. I expected to spend the day but they drove me back home which set up my being home to ride when the weather cleared up.

The ride was 33.81 miles long. I added a few extra streets to get the mileage above 32 miles. The light wind slowed me down going to Huffman but there were places where I got my speed to 20+ mph like going east over Lake Houston on FM1960. This is a straight section with no stop lights and the wind was from my back. I built my average speed up to 15.0 mph there and increased it to 15.1 mph by the time I stopped at the Huffman Chevron for a break. It was pleasant sitting in the shade with the breeze blowing and drying me off. I am a Jeep person and as I was resting it seemed to be Jeeps on parade. They caught my eye with all of the colors and the ones with custom lifts and wheels jumped out even more.

Another biker came my direction on Fairlake Drive. We waved as we passed in opposite directions. It was nice to see someone else enjoying the great weather.

From the Chevron station to home I rode into the wind. It was hard to keep my speed up but I maintained my average speed unit the 32 mile point in Kingwood. By the time I rode into the driveway it settled at 14.9 mph.

Not sure what Tuesday’s weather will be. The forecast calls for some rain. Maybe it won’t happen.

Weather when I stopped at the Huffman Chevron

Weather when I stopped at the Huffman Chevron

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Texas Bicycling News Roundup April 12th

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Bicycle Tour de Taqueria – Tacos of Oak Cliff

Bill Chance        billchance.org


There is nothing better in North Texas than the few spring days when the sun is shining and the day is warm – yet the killer summer heat is still a little off into the future.
Saturday was one of those days and I headed down to the Bishop Arts District for a bicycle ride – a tour of Taquerias in Oak Cliff.
Our first stop was Cool & Hot at …

Monthly GHORBA ride at Huntsville State Park!

Event category: Rides
Trail: Huntsville State Park
Sunday, April 26, 2015 – 10:00am …

Huntsville mountain biking team wins more hardware

The Huntsville Item        www.itemonline.com

The Huntsville Hornet mountain biking team had another thrilling race on March 29.
The Hornets and Lady Hornets headed to Glen Rose where they battled it out at what was their favorite race course so far.
The Huntsville team raced at Dinosaur Valley State Park, dealing with unusually hot and dusty conditions.
The Huntsville boys and girls didn’t let the weather slow them down, however.
Varsity girls riders …

Cypress Area Resident Biking to Austin in BP MS 150 in honor of those battling illness

By Vagney Bradley        www.yourhoustonnews.com


An estimated13,000 people will be biking from Houston to Austin on April 18-19 in support of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in the BP MS 150. One of those people supporting the society’s cause is rider Kyle Boston from Cypress.
“It is so important to assist in anyway being healthy for someone that doesn’t have that advantage of being completely healthy,” said Kyle Boston, BP MS 150 cyclist from the Cypress area.
Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic disease that involves …

Cycling for Hope: Heights man rides in BP MS 150 in memory of mother

by Jonathan Garris        www.theleadernews.com


Even after 12 years of cycling, Robert Pohl fully expects to have a teary-eyed finish with his family when he reaches the end of this year’s BP MS 150 bike ride.
“My entire family, including my extended family, my brother, my sister – most of them come every year to the finish line for a huge celebration,” Pohl said. “But at the same time it’s also recognition for my mother.”
The two-day fundraising bike ride, organized by the National MS Society South Central Region, is the …

HBC Galveston Ride

Houston Bicycle Club

Saturday 04/18/15     Galveston    9:00 AM
Distances: 20(A), 54(B) miles
Ride along the seawall, take the ferry to Bolivar Peninsula, visit old forts, and have a sandwich on the Strand. Extend the ferry leg to High Island and look for fossil camel (Yes, CAMEL) teeth. …

MTB Time Trial Results

Permian Basin Bicycle Association        www.pbbatx.com

Here are the results from the April 11, 2015, Odessa Time Trials:
Rider Number     Rider Name     Class     Time
207     Jason Haislip     Advanced     0:45:32
201     Landen Hammer     Advanced     0:45:51
208     Abel Salazar     Advanced     0:46:12
209     Oscar Salazar     Advanced     0:46:41
215     Matt Rogers     Advanced     0:46:54
213     Zack Belew     Advanced     0:47:35
202     Mike Brown     Advanced     0:48:09
203     Eric Lien     Advanced     0:49:53
212     Jeff Ledford     Advanced     0:50:04
204     Cain Chestnut     Advanced     0:51:22
206     Stephen Mitchell     Advanced     0:51:35
210     Sam Whipkey     Advanced     0:52:17
214     Gabriel Gonzales     Advanced     0:52:21
211     Trace Wohlfahrt     Advanced     0:52:29
205     Layne Young     Advanced     0:53:42 …

Tuesday: Intermediate/Advanced Mountain Bike Ride at the Ant Hills

Tuesday, Apr 21, 2015, 6:15 PM

15200 Memorial Dr
15200 Memorial Dr Houston, Te

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This will be a medium to fast pace ride through the Ant Hills of Hershey Park! Bring WATER, spare tube/tire, snacks, etc…Helmets required. Call if you are going to be late so we can wait for you. Wheels rolling by 6:30! See you there

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Double Lake Beginner Racer Clinic Round 2(no rain!)

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Event category: Clinics
Saturday, April 18, 2015 – 12:00pm
GHORBA wants to put on an event to get new racers out to try mountain bike racing! This event will go over what you and your friends will want/need to know to tackle a race! Bring questions!!!! Coach Nathan Winkelmann will be on site to lead the clinic.

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