City council considers allocating $192,000 to bicycle plan
by bikedenton
Denton has a budget surplus of $192,000, and some city council members suggest allocating it to the Bicycle Plan. , vote on Sept 20.

Council member Dalton Gregory advocated using the money to help implement the city’s ongoing bicycle plan, which would receive only $50,000 under the proposed budget.

“I completely agree with Chris that we need to not spend money that’s not there,” Gregory said…

More Renner Road Underpass Progress
by dickdavid        Bike Friendly Richardson

It’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve checked on the progress of the Renner Road trail underpass. We were quite surprised to see so much progress in such a short amount of time. Now that the retaining wall is going up, we’re starting to get a better idea of how this trail is going to look. …

Plano City Council Votes for Bicycle Facilities and Connections
by marc@mcmumby.com        BikeDFW
The Plano City Council voted last night to approve two contracts to provide new bicycle facilities within Plano and new bicycle connections to neighboring cities. Both projects are part of Plano’s “Goal of Great Neighborhoods – 1st Choice to Live” community enhancement program.

The Citywide On-street Bicycle Route Signage Project involves the manufacture and installation of signs and sign post assemblies for on-street bicycle routes throughout…

Who Doesn’t Want a Full Weekend on the Bike?
by djcurtin            It’s Time To Ride
Any enthusiast road cyclist worth their weight in carbon fiber has thought, “I sure would love to spend a few days just…riding.”  Even if you read all the magazines, spend lunch hours skulking around your local bike shop, hit up your local club rides, done a few charity rides, and maybe even pinned on a number at a race or two, when it comes done to it, you just want to…

Chocolate Increases Endurance
Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
A recent symposium at the American College of Sports Medicine 58th Annual Meeting June 2, 2011 and other recent studies show that chocolate improves endurance training in mice and humans. Taking small amounts of a chocolate extract, called epicatechin, twice a day for two weeks shortened recovery from intense exercise and…

Thanksgiving in the Davis Mountains
www.lonestarcyclists.org
November 24, 2011 – November 27, 2011 Tim Williams has long wanted to ride the Scenic Loop of the Davis Mountain’s and the Goerner’s have joined him to make this opportunity for the Lone Star Cyclist Bicycle Club.  The Davis Mountain’s offers challenging climbs, wonderful scenery with all the variety west…

North Texas cyclists keep pedaling even in the record-setting high heat
by Dallas Morning News (subscription)
By JEFFREY WEISS On a day when simply standing in the sun-baked parking lot was an endurance test, Dr. George Markus limbered up for a brisk 34.5-mile bike ride. The leader of a regular twice-weekly event called, no kidding, the Popsicle Ride, …

Bicycling firefighters ride for 9/11
By RUSSELL ANGLIN
russell.anglin@amarillo.com

For a group of fundraising, bicycling Los Angeles firefighters headed to Amarillo, the West Texas wind was a welcome ally Sunday.

“(The wind has) been the best thing absolutely ever,” Jorge Ostrovsky, 54, a founding member of the Ride For 9/11 organization, said as he sat atop his bike, his face drenched in sweat. Ostrovky is part of a group of…

Legislators take a bike tour
Wheels turn in effort to show ‘that it can also be transportation.’
By Colin McDonald

The legislators were quick to gather Thursday for the predawn photo op before the Alamo, but their attention faded during the subsequent safety speech about not braking abruptly while riding a bike.

BikeTexas art director Jack Sanford saw an opportunity and quickly performed an awkward cartwheel to…