Texas Bicycling Daily News Roundup July 28th

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Dorba race Sept 22nd
by MontyV            Fort Worth Mountain Bikers’ Association
We have a Dorba race at Sansom Sept 22nd. The course will need some prep work. This is a big deal for our club and any help is welcomed. We plan to have 3 work days before hand. Please come out and help. The dates are August 31,Sept 7 and Sept 14. Please plan ahead and help out.
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It’s not if you fall off the bike.It’s that you get back on.

by M2RIDER
FWMBA President
Monty speaks the truth! Half of the event profits from this race go to FWMBA. That money goes towards building and maintaining singletrack and a whole host of other FWMBA expenses. If you love FWMBA trails show it by attending these dates! …

Juniors Track Nationals ends with scratch races and Madison
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Trexlertown, Pa. (July 28, 2013) –The 2013 USA Cycling Juniors Track National Championships officially went into the books on Sunday afternoon as riders completed their four-day competition with the Madisons and scratch races.

In the men’s 17-18 scratch race, Zachary Carlson (Plano, Texas/Matrix Cycling Club) added another gold medal to his hardware collection (he also won the international omnium) when he bested second-place and third-place finishers Harrison Devine (Bellevue, WA/First Strike Velo) and Zeke Mostov (San Francisco, CA/Slipstream-Craddock Junior Development). Raul Arias J.R. (East Palo Alto, CA/San Jose Bicycle Club) and Cole Reece (Emmaus, PA/) completed the event in fourth and fifth. …

Looking for wide bike trails
by terrabike        www.bikeforums.net
I am one of those dorks on a tadpole type recumbent trikes but I love this trike I can ride for hours instead of only like 30 or 45 minuets. I am looking for good places to ride in the San Antonio/Hill country area but I need kind of a wide trail I am about 36 inches wide. I have spent lots of time on the greenway trails in San Antonio but I’m looking for more places to ride. Has anyone spent any time at the South Llano state park?

Hello From Texas
by gravelgrinder        www.bikeforums.net
Live in Fort Worth. I have been riding for over 25 years. Used to race road bikes back in the day. Got into Mountain biking and have done that pretty much for the last 10 years. About 2 years ago I got into cross and discovered gravel grinders. I have been doing a lot of that type of stuff for the last 2 years or so…which ironically has got me back to riding my road bike more lately..still get out and hit the trails on occasion but not near like I did..was hitting them about 5 days a week and…

Let’s Ride Sweet 16 – Mountain Biking Barton Creek Greenbelt
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Riding the Sweet 16 trail segment. Another of my favorite segments at Barton Creek Greenbelt. I like to use this segment as a good measure of fitness combined with technical ability. This is a mostly uphill segment that will give you a good indicator of how you’re doing overall.

It is possible to ride/clear this entire segment although I have…

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Closing In – July 28th Bike Ride

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I planned on riding to the south but not quite as far as normal. When I looked at the weather radar there were some rain clouds in that direction to the south of Atascocita. Then I thought about riding to the north but that is the direction I wanted to go tomorrow. So I gambled and rode south. I did not encounter any rain but in Walden some streets were damp, probably from rain 30 minutes before I got there. It was 86 degrees (68% humidity) when I started at 11:34 and 91 degrees (57% humidity) at 1:03 when I got back home.

My goal is reach to 900 miles for July. With 4 possible riding days left and only 100 miles to go I thought biking a shorter distance would setup the other days with 30 miles a day to get to 900. Today’s route ended up at 22.41 miles at 15.4 mph average speed. July miles total 821.58 and this week I biked 226.15 miles. I biked 4147 miles year to date. This means I only need to ride 79 miles to reach my goal.

Good biking weather tomorrow: 93 degrees and partly cloudy.

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Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for July 27th

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Eight national titles awarded at Juniors Track Nationals on Friday
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Trexlertown, Pa. (July 25, 2013) – Race action continued at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center on Friday as eight national titles were awarded to riders in the men’s and women’s 17-18 categories.  Eight more races were contested by riders in the 10-12, 13-14, and 15-16 groups as they continued their pursuits of the coveted overall omnium national titles.

Men and Women 17-18 Racing

Zachary Carlson (Plano, Texas/Matrix Cycling Club) won the national title on Friday night in the men’s international omnium. After placing second in the elimination race and third in both the flying lap and points race on…

Biketown owner MacDonald expecting another successful Tour de Gap
By Daniel Youngblood        Abilene Reporter News
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More than 350 riders are expected for this year’s Tour de Gap, which is set to kick off at 8 a.m. today at the Old Settlers Reunion Grounds in Buffalo Gap.

Tour de Cure – DFW
Two Team Red and Red Riders getting ready to ride today at the final group ride before Tour next weekend — with Don Muchow and Dave Hennesey at Richardson Bike Mart.

Sterling grad to bike across west: Personal impact drives Shaver to ride for research
By Jake Stamps        baytownsun.com
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In May, local Baytown resident Austin Shaver will bike 4,500 miles from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska. Why? Shaver is raising money for cancer research. His goal is to raise at least $5,500 for those who have been affected by this disease.
The 2010 graduate from Ross S. Sterling High School, grew up in the city of Baytown. Shaver first faced…

Frisco girl dies after falling off bicycle on off-road trail at park
By Tanya Eiserer        crimeblog.dallasnews.com
An 8-year-old girl died Saturday after being injured while riding a bicycle on an off-road hike and bike trail at a Frisco park.

The name of the girl has not been released. She was flown to Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, where she died.

The accident occurred about 9 a.m. Saturday at the…

Big Steamer – Corinth Cycling Club
When: Tue Aug 6, 2013 6:20pm to Tue Aug 6, 2013 7:20pm  CDT
Where: 133 Garza Lane – Shady Shores, TX
Event Status: confirmed

Event Description: Corinth Cycling/Harden Dental Team Training Ride – Expect attacks and tight pacelines. 21+mph Experienced riders only.

Greater Dallas Bicyclists
July 30
5:30 Mesquite Ride

6:30 Mesquite Moderate

6:30 TEBR – REI Dallas

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Can I Hit 900? – July 27th Bike Ride

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During the night we got some much need rain so I delayed the ride some to let the roads dry off. While I waited I watch the Clásica San Sebastián race on EuroSport. The timing was just right so when I rolled out the driveway at 10:50 the streets were dry. We only received .17″ of rain but I still expected the humidity to be more than usual but it was only 67% and the temperature was 87. By the time I returned home at 1:36 the humidity dropped to 50% and the temperature went up to 93. While the sun was partially covered I decided to wear a long sleeve jersey mainly because I haven’t wore one for several rides. My first thought is the long sleeve jersey will make me hot but I don’t think that is true and the perspiration production sure seems less. When I stopped at the Stripes station at FM1314 it was nice to not have sweat running down my arms with the long sleeves absorbing it. The cooling effect made for a pleasant stop. We got a slight cool front with the rain so the heat is not quite as high as it was earlier in the week. Tomorrow’s high should only be 90. I plan on biking after church.

Since I rode to the south yesterday I decided today’s route should go to the north. Not wanting to ride too far I thought going to Roman Forest Blvd. and then turning south on the US59 service road would result in 30 miles or so. With the trip through Valley Ranch and some other neighborhoods the route totaled 33.25 miles raising the week’s mileage to 203.73 miles. July is at 799.17 miles. With 4 riding days left it is possible I could reach 900 miles; I’ve never biked that many miles in a month. Year to date I biked 4125 miles.

The roads on this route are bike friendly although I did alter the entrance back into Kingwood because Loop 494 is being resurfaced from Kingwood Drive south. So I went my typical route through Kings Manor.

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