Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for July 31st

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Thursday Night Social Ride: The Super Soaker
By Keith Byrd
Thursday, August 2, 2012
7:00pm in CDT
Grab your water weapon of choice, leave your Sunday Go-To-Meetin’ clothes at the house and get ready for a H20 combat. After a nice leisurely cruise, we’ll be stopping at an undisclosed location where Social Cycling Austin will have a COUPLE OF THOUSAND WATER BALLOONS filled and ready for you to unload on your fellow Thursday bike friends. Last time we did this they…

Bryan man completes 2,745-mile bike race
745-miles
By Kyrie O’Connor            www.mysanantonio.com
Billy Rice calls the Tour Divide bicycle challenge “the hardest race in the world that nobody knows about,” but that’s rather understating the case. It’s a lot harder than that. Any one day of it is harder than anything you or I will do all year.

The race is 2,745 miles long, from Banff, Alberta, Canada, to Antelope Wells, N.M., on the Mexican border. That’s 200,000 feet of climbing, and it’s almost all off-road, on a patchwork of trails, dirt roads, forest paths and service roads along the Continental Divide. And it’s done in a single stage: no checkpoints, no…

Le Tour de Longneques
bikenoob.com
I broke away from my usual weekend routine Saturday, by getting up really early and heading west to ride in Le Tour de Longneques. The brainchild of my blogging friend Don Bynum, the Tour started a couple of years ago as an easy 18-mile jaunt between Llano and Castell, Texas.

But each time it’s been run, it has grown in popularity. And as cyclists have gotten better, the Tour was extended. It now starts in Castell, (pop. 72) a hamlet along the Llano River, and goes to Llano (pop. 3,300), the county seat, then back to Castell.

What’s the attraction of Castell? The Castell General Store — one of the funkiest local businesses you’ll ever want to see. It appears ready to fall down in…

75 Years Young – Skip, You Da Man!
www.planobicycle.org

Skip Sparry, local Plano hero and all around nicest guy you could ever hope to meet, took away 2 silver medals at  the U.S. National masters track championship in Colorado Springs from the several events he entered. Skip,  a “Rudy Rider,” overcoming years of injuries and an on-going heart condition (his cardiologist: “Don’t race, Skip”) at the age of 75, did all cyclists proud with his outstanding performance. He is clearly placed as…

Roosevelt Park–Mission Ride to I-37
Hill Country Bicycle Touring Club
August 5, 2012 7:00 am
642 Lone Star Blvd., San Antonio, TX
We will be meeting at Roosevelt Park located at 642 Lone Star Blvd. San Antonio, TX 78204. We will depart Promptly at 7:00 am for a 39 mile ride so arrive early to be ready to ride by then. This ride will take us down through the Missions, down Southton Road and around Braunig Lake. There are two stops along the way where you can buy water and…

Flintridge STS and more

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The moment we’ve all been waiting for! After a few delays for weather the Flintridge STS is ON for Saturday August 4th. The weather is looking good this week to have a trail in prime shape for race day. Registration is online only and current GHORBA membership is required to participate.  To register, click here. To join/renew your membership, click here.  Questions? Contact the Racing Director or Membership.

Help out your trail by joining in on a work party.  Memorial Park and Carl Barton have upcoming work parties on the calendar and other trails post them regularly, watch the calendar for more updates.

Interested in what the GHORBA Board is up to lately? Board meeting minutes for April and May have been posted in the Meeting Minutes section.

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Wrapping Up the Month – July 31st Bike Ride

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I wrapped up July’s biking with a 32.27 mile ride today. I got started at 8:45 AM while the temperature was 82 degrees and by the time I finished at 11:24 it increased to 92 degrees. With this ride July mileage ended at 621.55. Scattered clouds and the 9 mph SW breeze made this a typical summer ride. With the early start I did not expect to see any other riders but while I was cooling off at the Huffman Chevron a woman bicyclist cut through the station but she did not see me.

Riding time was 2:07:44 plus 31:08 time stopped. Average speed was 15.2 mph with 21.0 mph max speed. Average cadence was 76.9 RPM. YTD mileage totals 3934.96. I biked 19 days in July with an overall 15.0 mph average speed. Total riding time for July was 41:23:03.

Link to RideWithGPS.com data and map.
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Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for July 30th

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Kid Trips Event – Powder Horn at Camp Tahuaya
Sunday, September 9, 2012 – 08:00 – 15:00
Austin Ridge Riders
Kid Trips will be conducting a ride with BSA Troop Leaders at  Camp Tahuaya on Sunday September 9th.

It’s that time of year again folks!  The Boy Scouts have invited us to train their Troop Leaders in mountain biking skills at their Powder Horn training event.  This is a yearly event where Troop Leaders are exposed to many outdoor recreational activities.  This…

Flagpole Ride – Saturdays
Brazos Valley Cyclists
NB: Due to construction, we are temporarily meeting at the entrance to the small parking lot at Houston St and Old Main, about 30 meters west of the flagpole!

8:45 a.m. at the center flagpole on the main quad of the Texas A&M campus, about 50 meters west of the statue of Sul Ross. This ride consists of two groups going approximately 55 and 45 miles respectively. Both groups ride together from campus for the first nine miles to “Twister’s”, the minimart/gas station at the corner of highways 60 (a.k.a. University Ave closer to town) and 50. After a very short stop at the minimart, the two groups typically separate. Note: We try very hard to be welcoming toward beginners, but the Flagpole ride is not a beginner ride. New riders should know…

GDB Annual Summer Bash Wrapup
Greater Dallas Bicyclists
The 2012 GDB Summer Bash was a huge success. This year, the event was held at Sunnyvale Town Center.

Special Thanks to Randy Rogers for making the reservation happen. The pavilion was perfect and the riding terrain was excellent! …

R.I.P. Randy Eller
www.txbra.org

A truly unique, one of a kind, friend – father – husband – teammate – boss. Thank you, Randy Eller, for the memories and for being a part of our world. You will be remembered and missed by many.

4,500 miles for cancer: Bicyclists train, raise money for fundraising trip to Alaska
by Victor R. Martinez \ El Paso Times
Whenever Aurora Mayte Salazar-Ordoñez feels like giving up, she looks no further than her mother, Aurora.

“She is one of the strongest people I know,” Salazar-Ordoñez said, then paused to reflect on what she had just said. “Anytime I want to quit and not do anything else, I just think of her.”

Salazar-Ordoñez is going to need every bit of her mother’s inspiration as she and University of Texas at Austin classmate José Gallegos prepare for a 4,500-mile bike ride from…

Bicycle Sports Shop hosts book release party Wednesday
By Pam LeBlanc            Fit City
The Olympic track cycling events don’t kick off until Thursday at the velodrome in London. That means you can still make it to Wednesday’s book release party for Austin writer Ian Dille, whose recently released book, “The Price of Gold: The Toll and Triumph of One Man’s Olympic Dream,” tells the story of Olympic track cycling champion Marty Nothstein’s quest for Olympic gold in 2000. …

2012 DORBA Fall Series Race at Oak Cliff Nature Preserve (OCNP)
by Shawn McAfee            Texas Mountain Bike Trails
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFXDX3NQkFM
Oak Cliff Nature Preserve, DORBA Fall Series Race 2012 – The 2012 Fall race series is upon us and starts this Sunday August 5th. I took some time over the weekend to check out the trail and grab some trail footage. …