Vernon Burnin’ Bike Ride – Vernon, TX

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VERNON BURNIN’ BIKE RIDE.
The Vernon Jaycees welcome you to the fifteenth annual Vernon  Burnin’ Bike Ride, You are invited to join other cyclists as they blaze the roads of Wilbarger County. The ride promises to be fun and challenging, for the novice as well as the expert. So bring your water bottles and come prepared for a hot time!!

Entry Fee….will be $20.00 per person if pre-registered as of August 1st ,2010.Please pre-register so enough supplies will be available for everyone ( everyone who pre-register is guaranteed a T-shirt) .After August 1st,all entry fees will be $25.00.Make checks payable to Vernon Jaycees.

Packet Pick-up/Late registration…
6:00 pm-7:00pm Friday 20th at the King Physical Ed Center at Vernon College.
Starting at 6:00am the day of the ride at the King Physical Ed Center at the Vernon College.

Packets will include a T-shirt (Guaranteed to pre-registered riders only) and various goodies.

Parking and Facilities….Plenty of parking will be available at the college. Sorry, no parking will be permitted along Highway 70..Bathrooms and showers will be available at the King P.E. Center (at the Vernon College) so bring your towels and soap!!!

Tour Routes
12 MILE-for the novice, a good family ride for those with young children.
22 MILE-flat, rural, with unpredictable winds.
38 MILE-rural and scenic ride with some hills ad challenging winds.
62 MILE-(100k)- a scenic ride through the Waggoner Ranch and along the Pease River: challenging hills with lots of wind and lots of heat :a challenge for even the expert.

Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for May 15th

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Rain visited southeast Texas last night and most of today. We needed it badly but this meant no ride today. Tomorrow is supposed to be a lower chance of rain so I should be able to get a ride in.

Richie Porte (Saxo Bank) was best young rider earlier in the Giro d’Italia.
from www.cyclingnews.com
This is why I do not ride in the rain if I can help it. This picture is from the 7th stage of the Giro d’Italia and is the result of rain and 2 sections of gravel road totaling about 20K.

Richie Porte (Saxo Bank)

Family of Man Struck On Bike Seeks Driver Responsible
by KFOX El Paso
The family of a man struck on his bicycle last Thursday is asking the public for help finding the driver that struck him. Ruben Lemus, 51, was struck on South Desert Road on his bicycle as he made his way to work. “It’s probably been the hardest week of my life,” said Anais Lemus, Ruben Lemus’s daughter. A passerby eventually found Lemus on the side…

The bicycling frontier… | The Path Less Pedaled
by Russ
There has been a lot of chatter and gasps of surprise when Bicycling Magazine released their list of top bicycling cities and Portland was dethroned as bike Mecca and was replaced with Minnesota (but doesn’t it snow there?). The top 10 cities don’t change too often and the battles in those cities are usually nuances over different shades of infrastructure (bike boxes, sharrows, cycle paths, bike corrals, etc.,). These cities already have pretty well established bike routes, bike/ped coordinators working in the city and strong cycling…

What’s Turning the Spokes on the Net May 14th

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YouTube – Los Mariachis de Ciclo Bike MS 2010
May 06, 2010  — Our 10 member team, Los Mariachis de Ciclo (The Mariachis of Cycling), biked on May 1-2, 2010 in the Bike MS Sam’s Club ride from Frisco to Ft Worth, Texas. The ride was 159 miles total (day one 84 miles, day two 75 miles). We’re riding to raise money to help cure Multiple Sclerosis.

BILL CULLINS: Trails on Spillway Hill predictable, comforting like …
by San Angelo Standard Times
Those of you who read this column on a regular basis have figured out I enjoy epic rides, races in nasty weather and hard workouts. All of these add to the challenge and make me glad to be alive.

There are some days, however, when I want the predictability and sense of peace that comes from being with an old friend. On those days, I head to Spillway Hill.

Spillway is what we call the small hill just outside the back gate of Middle Concho Park. As hills go, it’s not much — the elevation gain top to bottom is only about 95 feet. …

Gary Glickman Memorial Criterium – Richardson, TX

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Gary Glickman Memorial Criterium
Presented by Mirage Cycling
Richardson, TX
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Online Registration Closes Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 1:00 AM ET
The course is located at the NWC of Palisades Blvd at south-bound frontage road US 75 (North Central Expressway) in Richardson.  From points North of Richardson Tx, take Exit 26 (Galatyn Pkwy/Campbell Rd) on SB US 75.  From points South of Richardson Tx, take Exit 27A on NB US 75 (Galatyn Pkwy/Renner Rd) and make a U-turn at Renner Rd, continue South on frontage road to Palisades Pkwy.

Mirage Cycling Team