Crazy Water CX Festival
Pollard Park
3099 North Oak Avenue, Mineral Wells, TX
Pre-reg entry fee is $20, day of race entry fee is $25. For age 12 and under, entry fee is $10. Late registration fee is $7 on day of race.
Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for October 4th
Natural High Mountain Bike Race
Date: October 15, 2011
Location: Lubbock, TX
Contact: Betty Blanton
Details: Need an excuse to go mountain biking? Come and compete in our annual Natural High Mountain bike race and meet other local mountain bikers. Beginners to advanced bikers are welcome to sign up and enjoy the fun and camaraderie at the Lubbock MLK bike course. TTU and Lubbock community riders welcome.
Beginner and Intermediate Group
El Paso Bicycle Club
If you are just getting into cycling, want to learn more about the sport, or would like to meet new friends to ride with then the Beginner and Intermediate Group (B/IG) is for you. We have concluded the formal instruction program for 2011 but will continue to hold weekend rides throughout the balance of the year. Look for rides with the B/IG designation on the club calendar. The 2012 program will kick off in April and run through September. B/IG rides are designed to be both educational and fun. Each week before the ride a different cycling related topic is presented. Topics range from riding in a group (pace line) to bicycle maintenance and repair. Riding skills are discussed and practiced while out on the ride that follows.
Fall 2011 update on the Master Bicycle Plan
by elliott      Austin On Two Wheels
Goal 1 of the Bicycle Plan is to, “Increase citywide workforce commuter bicycle mode to 2% by 2015 and to 5% by 2020. and Increase central city workforce commuter bicycle mode to 8% by 2015 and to 10% by 2020.†According to the 2009 American Community Survey (US Census), within Austin’s Central City (the area roughly bound by Oltorf St., Pleasant Valley Rd., FM 2222, and MoPac ) 3.73% of the population uses…
Update on progress on bike facilities in Fort Worth
by marc@mcmumby.com      BikeDFW
We got this information from Julia M McCleeary, AICP, Senior Transportation Planner for the City of Fort Worth. As you can see, Fort Worth continues to lead the way in promoting bicycle use in North Texas. If only the other cities were this engaged in sustainable transportation…
Bike! Fort Worth Progress Update
We’re making progress towards creating a friendlier bicycling environment in Fort Worth! …
Veterans marathon bike hike passes through Monterey County
Written by CONNER JAY AND ANDY STINY
A rider in the California Ride 2 Recovery makes his way toward Seaside along Highway 1 on Monday.
They started out from Santa Cruz on Monday morning, more than 200 strong, united by their injuries and a common goal to complete a bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
After a rest stop in Moss Landing, participants in day two of Ride 2 Recovery Golden State Challenge, were hosted for lunch at American Legion Post 591 in Seaside before spending the night in Carmel. …
Columnist: Bike riding rules of the road
Emmanuela Mujica,The Shorthorn guest columnist    www.theshorthorn.com
This year, there are an overwhelming number of bicycles on campus — racks are brimming with bicycles of all shapes and sizes. Since the establishment of the Maverick Bike Shop, the approval of the City of Arlington’s Hike and Bike Plan, and the revival of the Maverick Cycling Team, more students are becoming interested with the bicycle as a form of transportation and sport.
It’s exciting to see UTA students hitting Arlington’s roads on bikes, but not many realize that “cyclists have the rights and duties of motor vehicles,†according to Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 551. Almost every day on my bicycle commute onto campus, I see a student riding incorrectly — on the…
Cyclists Dedicate Tour To Man Who Died Awaiting Transplant
www.kwtx.com
Twelve non-professional cyclists with The Circle of Life bike tour are riding nearly 600 miles in eight days throughout Texas to promote organ, tissue, bone marrow and blood donation. Each of the cyclists has a personal experience with one of these life-saving donations and each day of the tour, each participant rides in honor of a person who has given or received the gift of life. …
Circle of Life bike tour ends in Tyler, honors young man who died recently
Submitted by Stephanie Frazier      athens.kltv.com
Oct 8th is the last stop of Texas’ annual Circle of Life Bike Tour that raises awareness of organ, tissue, blood and bone marrow donation.
The Tyler ceremony is scheduled from 2-3pm at Tyler Junior College’s Murphy Tennis Center. There will be 12 riders riding into Tyler and 7 of those riders are riding in memory of organ donor families. The riders will arrive at around 1:30. …
Ride Recap @ River Legacy, 10/3/11
by Shawn      Texas Mountain Bike Trails
Only 5 days till the wedding.
Wait, scratch that, its after midnight so its now only 4 days till the wedding. Unbelievable.
So a very fast ride recap for tonight as I am outlandishly busy and have got to get at least a few hours sleep.
The River Legacy trail in Arlington Texas is in ok shape, it needs rain again bad and is really starting to come apart again on a lot of turns. The ground is just completely dried up and cracking everywhere. It needs a good soaking and soon… Just not this Saturday during…
Tour de Nac – Nacogdoches, TX
Tour de Nac
Nacogdoches, TX
Ride through the brick streets of downtown and see the sites of the Oldest Town in Texas and the beautiful countryside surrounding it. The annual bike ride will include a 7.8-mile, 26-mile, 40-mile, and 68-mile route beginning and ending in historic downtown Nacogdoches. The ride starts at 8 a.m. Entry fee is $25 for early registration and $30 for regular registration (after 11/15). Entry forms are available at the Visitor Center, 200 E. Main Street, click here to download a registration form and route maps, or click here to register online TODAY!
Turtles on the Buggy – October 4th Bike Ride
There were two purposes for today’s ride: ride and take some pictures of electric substations for my soon to be released ebook. So I took my camera on the ride and as I was riding along the bike trail I crossed a wood bridge. Below the wood bridge was a grocery buggy partially submerged in the water. I have been by this many times (sometimes I think I need to pull the buggy out of the water so that it can be returned to the grocery) but today I glanced down and about 6 turtles were resting on the side above the water. I stopped and walked back onto the bridge to snap a picture but I scared them and they went into the water. On the return leg I rode over the bridge and walked quietly back from the other side and snapped this picture.
Turtles Sunbathing on a Grocery Buggy
Shortly after I took the picture most of them went back into the water. I did get some pictures of substations but they were not as interesting as this one.
The great (but rainless) weather continued today so the skies were clear blue and the temperature at the start was a pleasant 77 degrees (43% humidity) and 88 degrees (29% humidity) at the end. The wind was calm which helped the average speed. At the 15 mile point my average was 15.9 mph but it dropped to 15.4 mph (15.3 mph in SportTracks) but the time I got home. All of the starts and stops to take pictures played a part. I rode 28.56 miles. My average cadence was 81.7 RPM, up slightly from yesterday, and the max speed was 22.1 mph. I started later (11:33 AM) that I wanted but delaying the start allowed the temperature move up some. It was a little cool in the shade at times until I warmed up. October miles are 83.23 and year to date I pass the 4300 mark at 4324.57 miles. There is no rain in the coming days but the temperature is supposed increase some.
10-4-2011 Bicycle Ride Data and Route Map
10-4-2011 Home Weather End
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