Daily News Roundup March 4th – Texas Bicycling

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Today I learned about two bicyclist terms I had not heard before: gutter bunny and bikelash. Checking google.com I found several sources for a definition. These may be new terms to you as well.

According to the Urban Dictionary the gutter bunny is the cyclist you see cranking along the snowbanks every morning in January, huffing home sweating bullets in August, and pedaling off to work, come rain, shine and everything in between. … refer to themselves as. May have originally started as a disparaging remark mountain bikers used to refer to commuters as but it has now been accepted.

Wordspy.com defines bikelash: n. A strong, negative reaction towards cyclists, particularly by police officers or drivers. Also: bike-lash. Call it a bikelash! The NYPD has been ordered to begin a borough-wide crack-down that will hit renegade riders for often-overlooked “vehicular offenses” like failing to obey traffic signals and signs, breaking the speed limit, tailgating, and even failure to signal before turning.

12 reasons to start using a bicycle for transportation
from mother nature network By Chris Baskind
Economic instability and ever-increasing climate change are just two of the many reasons riding a bike is an excellent alternative to driving.
In honor of May’s Bike to Work Week, we’re continuing our look at smart ways to start saddling up and using bicycles for real transportation.

We’ve always taken the greenness of bike transport as a given. But if you’re just getting started — or perhaps trying to convince an employer that bicycle commuting is…

Nationals Qualifying Races Set
By Singletrack.com
Published Mar 4th 2011 2:09 PM EST
Qualifying races for USA Cycling’s Mountain Bike Cross-Country National Championships have been announced.

Dates and locations for the 2011 American Mountain Bike Challenge (AMBC) include 21 races in 14 states, with cross-country nationals being held in Sun Valley, Idaho July 14-17. AMBC gravity events will qualify riders to compete at the USA Cycling Mountain Bike Gravity National Championships, Sept. 24-25 in Beech Mountain, North Carolina. … September 2-4: Camp Eagle Classic MTB Festival – Rocksprings, Texas

Mountain Bike Whisperer Radio
Episode 5 FWMBA Woman’s Mountain Bike Clinic with Suzy Laine (03-03-2011)

March Shifting Times
The Newsletter of Lone Star Cyclists

Cyclocross superstar Tim Johnson rides to D.C. in support of bicycling and PFB
from The Blog www.peopleforbikes.org
Starting today, six-time national champion and cyclocross superstar Tim Johnson will throw his leg over his bike for a hard training week. But this time he’s not riding to improve his cycling; he’s riding to improve bicycling for everybody else. …

Help BikeHouston save a much-needed bike bridge!
from BikeHouston » Blog by Darren Sabom
The neighbors near the construction of the Tierwester bicycle and pedestrian bridge near Scott Street on the Brays Bayou trail, are trying to stop the project that has already begun construction.  Council member Wanda Adams needs to be…

The Road Trip to NAHBS 2011 – Film
from Biking In Dallas by Christopher Curnutt
I thought it would be fun to film some of the road trip we took to Austin for the 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show.   I used the footage I took with the Flip, some …

Off-road events offer muddy fun
by San Angelo Standard Times
If you’re interested in giving off-road multisport a try or just want to hook up with other local athletes who race these events, check in with the MAC Racing team here in San Angelo (www.wix.com/macusa/texas). This team includes athletes at all levels …

Texas state parks provide physical fitness events
by Graham Leader
The largest field of competitors to use state park facilities, up to 15000 bikers, turn out for the annual MS 150, a two-day, 150-mile bike race from Austin to Houston held each April. Some 15000 competitors pedal the pine tree-lined road linking …

TEXAS 4000 RIDE: Lessons in Sagging
from www.texas4000.org
This past weekend, some of our team volunteered at the Texas Cycling event by sagging and corner marshaling. I felt I had a general idea of what I would be …

Iron Haus Time Trial Series – San Antonio, TX

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Iron Haus Time Trial Series -APRIL 2011
Presented by Ciclismo SA , Britton’s Bicycle Shop, Jimmy Britton
San Antonio, TX
Saturday, April 02, 2011
Online Registration Will Open Monday, March 07, 2011 at 12:01 AM ET
The 2011 Iron Haus Time Trial Series is a series of 8 races, taking place on the first weekend of each month from March through October.  All entry fee schedules will be similar to the initial time trial posted.

Early registration is available at Britton’s Bicycle Shop (210.656.1655) during normal bike shop hours until 7:00 p.m.  March 4, 2011

Race morning registration is available beginnning at 7:30 a.m. in the Iron Haus entrance patio area.

The on-line registration will close at 11:00 pm on the Thrusday evening before the race.

SATURDAY    -   April 2nd , 2011
The second event is a 20/40km Time Trial on Saturday April 2nd, 2011,  starting at Iron Haus Fitness in Castroville and heading up FM 471 and back.  The Start / Finish Line will be located in front of Iron Haus on FM 471 and be an out and back course.

The first rider will take off at 8:01 AM.  20k participants will be the first to go and the 40k participants will follow with the first 40k rider at no earlier than  8:30 a.m. .  The course is an out and back along FM 471.  The turn around will be marked and a recorder in place to validate the turn.  The Time Trial will be recorded and times will be posted 20 minutes following the last finisher.

The start times will be assigned in the order of category and time of registration. Juniors and 20k participants will have the earliest start times.  Teams will be the first off following the 20K participants.

The teams  will start  last and must have  at least 2 and no more than 6 riders.  Team time is based on the last team rider to finish.

Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 3rd

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Waco Bicycle Club Rides
Thursday
Thursday Beginning Cyclist Ride
Thursday 05:30 PM
Road/beginner More

Cameron Park Beginner Mountain Bike Ride
Thursday 05:30 PM
Mountain/beginner More

Thursday Hewitt Park Road Ride
Thursday 05:30 PM
Road/all levels More

Lone Star Cyclists Mar. Club Rides

Lone Star Cycling March Rides

Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine
March 6, 2011
How Exercise Keeps You Young (and Prolongs Your Life)

Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has shown that exercise prevents aging in mice programmed to grow old rapidly (The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 22, 2010).  The exercising mice did not have the expected shrinkage with aging of their…

Fatal auto-pedestrian accident in Orange County
by KFDM-TV News
ORANGE COUNTY- The Texas Department of Public Safety has released the name of a bicycle rider who was killed when the driver of a pickup truck ran into him from behind. The DPS says Kevin Caudle, 28, or Orange, died at about 8 pm Wednesday. …

Malone Wins Second Consecutive Marathon Champion Bike Series
by Blanco County News
This was the first race of the season for Dustin, who rides for Hammer Head Bicycles out of Austin. Bruce said all the racers who participated in the Texas Marathon Series wish to thank Hill Country Bicycle works for sponsoring the series. …

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 3/3/11 – 3/9/11
from Austin On Two Wheels
Dedicated to keepin’ yer Texas race dollars in Texas, The Muddy Outlaw Dash and Chainring Challenge is a 3.1 …. Austin and Texas Bicycle Framebuilders …

Armstrong youth team rolls into Solvang
by Santa Maria Times

Youth Team
The Austin, Texas-based team’s season starts March 31 and runs through … The team’s primary sponsors are Trek Bicycle Corporation and Livestrong, …

Ride with Bike Friendly Oak Cliff in the Mardi Gras Parade
March 2, 2011 in Bike News, Events, Oak Cliff
Bike Friendly Oakcliff
Ride with Bike Friendly Oak Cliff in the third-annual Oak Cliff Mardi Gras Parade. 105 people have RSVP’d on Facebook here, and more are welcome to pedal on up the day of. It’s a family friendly ride, so everyone’s invited. We’ll start at 4 p.m. at…

Cycling notebook: Critics make TPC put brakes on plans
from HoustonChronicle.com — Cycling by Dale Robertson
It would not be business as usual at Friday’s H-GAC Transportation Policy Council meeting. Advocates for better pedestrian and bicycle mobility answered an urgent call to arms and, by raising a measure of civilized Cain at the open-to-the-public session, they were able to stave off — for the moment…

(67 x 3) + 74 = 83
from Musings of Captain Justice by Gil Jones
If you don’t follow that math, it’s understandable. But if you take a geezer-squad of three guys 67 years young (two of them precisely that age) and one of 74 years, and put them on bicycles out to prove nothing, …

Houston Ride: Tuesday/Thursday West End Ride
from Texas Racing Life by Ken
Most of my training is done alone because I feel I can really concentrate on the correct intervals and duration.  Sometimes I get really bored and want to ride/race with people on the weekdays.  In Austin, there was always the Tuesday Nighter, a great group ride that would leave from downtown Austin and then race around a…

For the first time this year I was over dressed… – March 3rd Bike Ride

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For the first time this year I was over dressed for a ride. I was expecting the 70 degrees at the start of the ride to drop down to 60 by the time I got back but it only went to 68. The fleece jersey, full finger gloves, windbreaker jacket and leg warmers were more than enough. March weather is still acting like a lamb although Saturday’s weather could rough things up a little. I want to do the Baytown Gator Ride but not in the rain. As of now this is what the forecast looks like:

Saturday
tstorms Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers early in the morning…then showers and thunderstorms likely in the morning. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent in the morning decreasing to 50 percent in the afternoon.

Tonight the weather was mostly cloudy skies with a SE 12 mph breeze. The ride was uneventful but challenging at times when I was going into the wind. The Motobecane 700HT gearing is pretty low so I can hit over 100 RPM but not have much speed.

Mileage report:

  • March miles 28.91
  • YTD miles 554.09

3-3-2011 Ride Data and Map

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