Little Elm Lions Rip ROARIN’ Ride – Little Elm, TX

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1st Annual Little Elm Lions Rip ROARIN’ Ride
Start: Sunday, October 17, 2010 @ 8:00 AM
To Be Announced
North Little Elm   Little Elm,, TX

Fees $25.00 Early Registration/Donation

Registration Closing Date
Saturday, October 16, 2010 @ 11:59 PM

Brief Description
Breakfast Tent open at 7:15 am prior to the 8:00 start staging Your registration/donation is fully tax deductible. Early registration goes thru 10/07 & guarantees a t-shirt. Registrants from10/08 to 10/17 are not guaranteed a t-shirt, but will be provided until supplies run out. Raffle prizes $1 each & $5 for Grand Prize. Donate an old cell phone & get 1 chance in a $1 raffle. Cell phones must be complete/w back, no accessories.

All proceeds from this ride go to support our community food bank, scholarships, eye exams and eyeglass programs as well as help for other charities and residents in need.

Join us on October 17th for either a 25 or 55 mile bike ride leaving from Little Elm Stadium at 1151 East Eldorado, Little Elm Texas as we wind our way through Frisco, Aubrey, Celina, and Prosper on a moderately challenging ride route.  We will end up back at the stadium.Staging for the ride begins at 7:30 and first riders out at 8:00 am.

The last weekend of September we will have a booth at Autumn Fest, an annual event with a Carnival for the kids, vendors for parents, and food for everyone held in Little Elm Park!  Bring your bike by for a “Tips Only” Tune up.  You can also register there or pick up your race packet if you are already registered!

We will have water stations, sag wagons, both bike and motorcycle marshals as well as porta-potties, and rest stations.  Each Rest station will be equipped with shade tents, water, fruit, a bike mechanic, and medics.  Riders will enjoy a new route and can choose to go 25 or make the entire 50 miles!

Early Registration will begin August 5th and go through October 7th.  For a donation/registration fee of $25.00 will get the following:

* T-Shirt
* Race Bag with Goodies and Coupons
* Three Rest Stops with Food, Water, Shade, Medics, Port-a-Potties
* SAG Support
* Entry into a drawing for a raffle prize
* 501-C-3 Tax Deductible Reciept for your taxes
* For every used Cell phone donated a ticket into a raffle prize drawing (with backs, no batteries, chargers, or accessories necessary)

After October 7th through race day, donation/registration fee is $35.00 with no guarantee of a Race shirt, but you will receive all the rest.

Mineola Metric Century – Mineola, TX

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Mineola Metric Century
Start: Saturday, October 09, 2010 @ 8:00 AM
Mineola Civic Center
1150 N Newsom   Mineola, TX
Online Registration Closing Date Thursday, October 07, 2010 @ 11:59 PM
Proceeds benefiting APET, Northeast Texas CASA, and the American Diabetes Association
This is one fall event you don’t want to miss!

There is a route for everyone – from families on their first bike tour to dedicated riders wanting to set a personal best on a century ride.

The Routes:
* 13-mile family friendly route
* 26-mile route is also fun for families and recreational riders
* 46-mile routes are relatively flat with a few challenging hills thrown in to keep you from getting bored
* 62-mile route takes riders through picturesque countryside on rural roads in Wood County

Friday Pre-Ride Roundup – 6pm Pasta Dinner – Mineola Civic Center

Rest stops – Rest stops will be located every 10 – 15 miles. They will have water, snacks, and fruit available. All rest stops are run by local non-profit groups. Prizes will be given to the best rest stops, so be sure and let us know your favorites!

Sag Support – Sag Wagons will patrol the course to help with minor repairs and to transport weary riders back to the start area. Please be prepared to fix your own flat tires (bring a spare tube!)
For your safety and the safety of others riding around you, no headphones allowed. Bicycle helmets are required!

– Adult Rider – $30, Under 17 – $15, Family Ride – $15
– Pasta Dinner – $8
– Extra T- Shirt $10

Mineola Texas

Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for September 24th

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Normally I let the Velonews and other professional websites be sources for products information but I wanted to include the new product release from CamelBak since they started in Texas. This year’s product enhancements solve a couple of issues I have had when I use my CamelBak. One issue they have yet to address is the tendency of the bite valve to be a grapple hook around loose items. No matter how much I try the bite valve always grabs something.

Interbike Bits: Camelbak
from singletrack.com by Lennard Zinn
…‘Antidote’ Bladder
The new bladder (the antidote to dehydration), now has a larger fill port (and it was already very large before) that is a stronger, clear plastic, perforated for a 19-percent weight saving and brought down in height by almost a third. In a vast improvement on the old port, which could often…

BILL CULLINS: Have we become too dependent on electronics?
by San Angelo Standard Times
I did a workout last week on a new bicycle I’m building up, before installing a bike computer.

The ride was great — just me and the bike — without any form of digital information feedback. That experience got me to thinking, “What would a fitness lifestyle be like without modern electronics…

Humana Names Elves & More as Winner of $100000 “Humana Communities Benefit …
by MarketWatch (press release)
Elves & More, a nonprofit organization that changes children’s lives one bike at a time, has been awarded a $100,000 grant as the winner of the 2010 Humana Communities Benefit — Houston program, funded by health-benefits company Humana Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!hum/quotes/nls/hum  (HUM  50.25, +0.27, +0.54%) .

With the $100,000 grant, Elves & More will expand its bicycle program, delivering 2,000 new bicycles to at-risk children in schools with Rodeo Institute for Teaching Excellence (R.I.T.E.) reading…

The newest high school sport? Mountain bike racing
by Austin 360, By Pamela LeBlanc
Not every school kid wants to play football, even in Texas.

With the creation of the Texas High School Mountain Bike Racing League, budding athletes will soon be able to look beyond traditional offerings like basketball, baseball and volleyball to a scrappy sport that sends them careening down dirt trails and tearing over roots and rocks.
Texas High School Cycling
Last week, the California-based National Interscholastic Cycling Association announced it was adding leagues in Texas, Washington state and Minnesota.

The Texas league will be open to ninth- through 12-graders at public and private…

Masters of the track: Cyclists display domination at national meet
by Lewisville Leader
By Damon Sayles, dsayles@acnpapers.com
Published: Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:38 PM CDT
FRISCO – The spin of the wheels and sounds of the pedals catch the attention of Nick Chenowth early on a Thursday morning.
Nick Chenowth
As elite cyclists whiz by in the ultimate track he created – the Superdrome on the Preston Ridge campus of Collin College – Chenowth catches a glance at his watch. …

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Tour de Longneques – Castell, TX

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A growing crowd of central Texas  (and beyond) cyclists/recumbent riders/catrikers are converging on Llano County for the next running of the Tour de Longneques on 23 October.  Those with the get up and go to ride the full 36 mile round trip between Llano and Castell will start out from Castell at 9am and ride to Llano and back.  Those with as yet insufficiently developed get up and go will start from the Llano County Courthouse at about 9:30-9:45 (faster folks start at 9:45, slower ones at 9:30 please, but as this is a militantly unorganized fun event do what you will) and will ride the 18 miles to Castell.

We generally have a couple of pickups with driving the route to rescue breakdowns, but, no guarantees on that.

Once we all end up in Castell there will be a mass rush down to the Llano River a block from the Castell General Store to climb down from the low water crossing and soak in the mystically (to some of us anyway) healing waters of the Llano River rapids just below the bridge.  Then we hike back up to the General Store and enjoy a couple of Lone Star Longnecks ($2 each, unless the price changes!  sissybeers are more costly) and some BBQ.

For more insight, and grasp of the historic nature (tongue firmly in cheek), of this ride check out my posts on some previous rides of this route (in chronological order of occurance).
http://donbynum.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/cycling-ride-report-llano-tx-to-castell-tx-and-back/  (just me)