Texas Bicycling News Digest March 23rd

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Bike Noob


Last week, when I went for a ride against my better judgment and wound up aggravating my bronchitis, I was cruising through a new housing development that still has some construction going on. I saw one of the workers shoulder some tools and head toward the street, so I swerved a bit to my right to avoid him. Just then, the door of a pickup truck on my right opened. I had just a second to swerve back and thread the needle between the tool guy and the door.
I got through that all right, but lots of cyclists get nailed by the opening door. So I was glad to see some new striping go down on streets in my area, with a feature I hadn’t seen before. …

Texas Hell Week!

Cycling for Autism        cyclingforautism.com


We survived Texas Hell Week! Fredericksburg, TX was a gorgeous place to ride, with fantastic roads and (mostly) fantastic weather! Six friends from the Wabash River Cycle Club were also there, which made it even more fun! The first 3 days went great for both of us, but my patellofemoral syndrome kicked in after 12,000 feet of climbing. Despite icing and mega doses of Advil, I wasn’t able to ride thereafter. Craig, on the other hand, had no problems crop up and was able to ride all 6 days (the last 2 days were rained out). So I ended up with ~300 miles, and Craig had ~575 miles. We highly recommend this ride to …

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Jesuit Ranger Roundup • Mar 22 2015 Results

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Bicyclist seriously injured in crash in Northeast El Paso

By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times

A man was seriously injured in a bicycle crash Monday afternoon in Northeast El Paso, police said.
The man was riding a bicycle with an engine at about noon when he lost control and crashed on Alabama Street just south of the El Maida Shrine Temple, police said.
The man, whose name was …

Spring Creek Greenway

Cycling Space City        cyclingspacecity.blogspot.com


North of George Bush Airport in Spring is the Spring Creek Greenway.  Currently the Spring Creek Greenway has about 12 miles of shared-use paths with plans to expand even further.  The shared-use path along the greenway connects Dennis-Johnston Park, Pundt Park, and Jesse Jones Park.  This path is just winding enough to keep a cyclist interested, and even has some small elevation changes. For someone who rides through George Bush Park all the time it is refreshing to have to pay attention to the curves in the road and shift gears occasionally. The …

Cycling team gets ready to ride at Army Trials

by Ronald Wolf        www.dvidshub.net


FORT BLISS, Texas – Fort Bliss is hosting the Army Trials for the Department of Defense Warrior Games from March 29 to April 2.
About 100 active duty and retired Soldiers have already arrived to train to go head-to-head in cycling, swimming, archery, shooting, track and field, sitting volleyball and wheelchair basketball.
The Army Trials are a critical component of the Army Warrior Care and Transition Program, focusing on the successful recovery of wounded, ill and injured Soldiers transitioning back to …

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UC Bearcat Jersey Bike Ride

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The weather delivered as forecast and I was out riding this afternoon. I left home rather late at 2:00 PM with enough time to get past Kingwood High School before they flooded the streets and greenbelt. I rode the “Stroker Road – Huffman” route for a total of 38.13 miles. The last time I was this far east was the Humble Lions Club ride in February. I got back home at 5:01. This reminds me of riding when I still worked. I would rush home from work, get home around 6:00 and rush to get 20 to 22 miles in before the sun went down. I hear some people complain about daylight savings time but my riding would have been in the dark if it wasn’t for the DST. Now that I am retired it isn’t as necessary but I still like the longer daylight in the evening.

Wind seemed to come from about every direction during the ride. My legs didn’t have the extra zip to go fast when I was going into the wind. The only relief was going to the west. I was able to boost my average speed to a whopping 15.2 mph during the ride on the west bound roads. There weren’t just enough of them.

I saw two bikers on Old Atascocita Road east of FM2100 while i was going west they were going east. They weren’t together, separated by several hundred feet. They may have been suffering like I did when I was riding to the east. This particular area doesn’t have much to block the wind. There was section of road when I turned left onto Ramsey Road from Stroker Road where there was nothing to block the wind. The tallest plant was grass and I was fully exposed to the wind power.

Even though it was 82 degrees at the home weather station I wore a UC Bearcat short sleeve jersey over a long sleeve one. I think that was a good move and I was comfortable with wind having some chill in it from yesterday’s front. Before the ride my wife mended a seam on the Bearcat jersey. The colors (red and black) go well with my Stradalli bike.

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UC Bearcat jersey on the left.

Weather forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday: excellent biking weather, partly cloudy and upper 70’s.

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Texas Bicycling News Digest March 22nd

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Best of luck to our Bike Masters team on today’s Vuelta Nuevo Leon 8th stage race. Keep in posted for today’s results.

HOUSTON TO GALVESTON #12 March 21 Photos

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Some of El Paso cycling role models came out to ride in the Heels on Wheels Ride and it brought the best in them.. They help lead over 50 women of all abilities on a 30 miles ride

Why cycling in central Texas is so awesome.

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How to Successfully Complete your First Century

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If you’ve taken up cycling in the last year and find yourself desiring to complete your first 100 mile ride, you might have a lot of questions. What should you take? Should you go with a group? How can you make sure your body is up to the task? What if you get lost?
These are all great questions worth taking the time to find the answers to before you attempt it. A successful century depends on two things; Preparation is vital for body and machine, and follow through on your plans will get you all the way to the last mile. Use the information we’ve gathered to make it a great first century of …

Steam N Wheels

Pedal Pushers

March 21, 2015
Abilene, Texas
The annual race/fun ride that inspires one to start working out in January to prepare for this event. If 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in your age group, it is a race. If you come in 4th or more, it is a fun ride. One cannot lose.
One may not lose, but you take a gamble on what the weather will be on that day. This time we had temperatures in the low 50’s and sprinkles most of the day. Above is one of the parking lots we used as a warm up area. I didn’t get warm though, just chilled. On fairer ride days of the …

Cyclists in Suits Agenda

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Agenda for the Day
With the big day just around the corner, here’s the agenda for a full day of lobbying on March 30.

We’ll start off with a light breakfast in the Capitol Auditorum, room E1.004 (see a map of the Capitol here) at 8:30 AM. Briefing for the day begins at 9 AM, with an overview of the bills we’re asking our legislators to support and some tips for talking to elected officials and staffers.

The bills we’re talking to legislators about are (links will take you to the text of the bills):

The Iris Stagner Safe Passing Act,  HB 2459 & SB 1416
Ban on Texting while Driving, HB 80
Safety Light at Night, HB 471
Transportation Safety Advisory Committee, HB 1136
Safe Neighborhood Streets, SB 1717

We will also let legislators know we …

Austin on a Bike’s Alternative Bike Routes: Rolling(wood) Out West

Austin On A Bike        austinonabike.com

In continuing our series on better bike routes and ways to get around town, we had planned to write about all the sneaky little ways to get around the east side this week, but in the spirit of SXSW leaving town and many of us swearing off the booze for the unforeseen future, we present to you instead a beautiful bike ride through the western hills.
Now, nothing about this ride is for a novice cyclist – the hills, the traffic, the roads – but for those of you that can handle riding on a wide shoulder with traffic whizzing past and about 5-miles of climbing to start either coming or going, this is a beautiful ride that …

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Battled Wind To Cumberland Bike Ride

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If you would have asked me yesterday if the weather would clear up enough to ride today I not said yes. It turned out the front moved through quickly and the rain was gone. A mostly cloudy sky stayed around and a brisk 14 mph NW wind was blowing. The wind was chilly but the 70 to 76 degrees offset it as long as I was in the sun.

With all the rain we got I was thinking some roads on the “Cumberland – Valley Ranch” route might be wet, particularly Knox Road west of Loop 494 but not so. This route keeps me east and south of the Gran Parkway construction north of Porter. I need to be a little creative to get 30 miles and today I rode 30.1 miles. That brisk wind battled me all the way to Cumberland and whenever I rode north. I managed to get my average speed up to 15.1 mph but it dropped down to 14.8 mph overall by the time I biked back through Kingwood at the end of the ride.

The new Continental Gatorskin Hardshell tires performed great. It will take some miles to wear off the rubber flashing from the tread. There is plenty of room between the tire and left chainstay now. I can’ tell if there was any rubbing until I take the wheel off.

I saw one other biker on FM1314. I was head west and he was going east around Timberland Blvd. He was in an aero tuck on his bars and I didn’t see him in time to wave.

With today’s ride I just barely got over 300 miles for March at 300.25 miles. The week’s total miles are 169.13 and 735 miles YTD.

Monday through Wednesday look like great weather for biking. I will do my best to be out there.

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