Daily News Roundup March 26th – Texas Bicycling

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Weekly race series, group rides help Austin’s bike racing scene …
by admin
Here in Austin, home of perhaps the most powerful pair of quads in the world, plenty of bicyclists are trying to find out.

They gather for weekly hammerhead training rides that depart area coffeehouses and bike shops. They line up for a 33-week bike race series staged on a track in East Austin. They drop $3,000 to $5,000 on road racing bikes that weigh considerably less than the tricycle you had as a kid. …

Austin Race Scene

Texas  Tidbits: Bike Out Hunger Ride
by Dallas Baptist Standard
Texas Baptists have planned a 445-mile bicycle ride to raise money for the Texas Baptist Offering for World Hunger and to raise awareness about how Texans can be involved in fighting hunger and making the state food-secure by 2015. The April 19-24 Bike Out Hunger event begins at First Baptist Church in Ballinger and concludes at The Fellowship of San Antonio. Riders are welcome to participate for the entire trek or for just one leg of the journey. To find out more or to pledge a donation for a specific rider, visit http://texasbaptists.com/bikeout/.

Sunday Morning RIDE – It’s hard out there for a hater. | Austin …
from Austin Texas Bike Stuff
It’s what made the Bicycle Crazies stomp their little feet when Tony Kornheiser ran his head. And until we let go of it, we’re nothing more than a bunch of ideological cheerleaders, shouting at each other. How productive is that? … This is a 25-30 mile ride over typical Central Texas terrain. If this is consistent with your riding experience, or is perhaps slightly more challenging than what you’re accustomed to, you should have no problem going the distance. …

Daily News Roundup March 25 – Texas Bicycling

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Cycling notebook: Rough times for Tour du Rouge
By DALE ROBERTSON – Houston Chronicle
The Tour du Rouge is a very different kind of bike ride, and that’s both a good thing and a bad thing.

Because it takes six days, traveling this spring from the Bush Intercontinental Airport Sheraton hotel parking lot to New Orleans via Beaumont, Sulphur, Abbeville, Morgan City and Gonzalez, it gives the Walter Mitty cyclist a taste of what a pro stage race…

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 3/25- 3/31/10 | Austin On Two …
by elliott
As part of the Texas State Championship Mountain Bike Racing Series, The Austin Ridge Riders present the 2010 Bicycle Sport Shop Pace Bend Race! The fun starts Saturday at 9 am with course pre-riding and other festivities and the racing …

Path Less Pedaled and Freewheeling Cycles presents: Bike Touring …
by Jason
Russ of Path Less Pedalled has been periodically emailing me about their cross country journey by bicycle, and as of about a week ago has landed in Austin, TX where they’ve been sampling the local bike life and giving presentations on …

Engineer helps fix road for triathlon
by Brazosport Facts
By John Tompkins When the athletes put their bicycle rubber to the road on Bluewater Highway during a triathlon in April, they’ll have one of their fellow …

The Hidden Peddler: last stop in TX
by Pedal4Peace
Hi, everyone,
Here we are in Liberty, TX, a little off the bike route but we had a hard time finding an RV park anywhere closer.  The bikers went 87 miles today from Navasota to the intersection of 105 and 146.  Paula, Katy and I had scouted out one place but it was really primitive and in a rather muddy field.  Katy found this park on-line and so we drove the 15 miles south to Liberty.  It isn’t great (no bathrooms or showers), but has electric, water, and sewer…

Back on the Road Again, Clear Skies and a Strong Wind

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After a two day interruption I managed to get a ride in tonight even though I stopped on the way home for the Clear WiMax blogger party at Dave & Buster’s. I have been waiting several years for this service to arrive in Houston and it looks like it goes live next week or so. So I got a little later start on the bike ride tonight.

The clear skies are a welcome sight after yesterday’s drizzle all day. With 61 degrees and a NNW wind at 14 mph dressing properly was again an issue. For a change I got it right: long sleeve fleece jersey over a T-shirt, Pearl Izumi windbreaker jacket, leg warmers, long fingered gloves. I was comfortable the whole ride. My road bike (Mercier Serpens Ltd 2.0) was up to the challenge.

Tonight’s ride statistics:

  • miles = 16.21
  • ride time = 1:07:41
  • average pace = 4.11 min/mile
  • average speed = 14.4
  • average cadence = 76.7
  • max cadence = 109
  • climb = 161 ft., descend = 177 ft.
  • YTD miles = 784.15

Charts and map for the ride.

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Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 24th

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City of Austin going ahead on Pfluger Bridge Extension | Austin …
by Jason
At the ramp’s conclusion there will be a bicycle round-about with connections to hike-and-bike trail and Lance Armstrong Bikeway. The existing Pfluger Bridge and Cesar Chavez Street will be closed for a short portion of the project in …

Denton Civic Center hosts bike friendly forum
by Pegasus News
by Drew Gaines of North Texas Daily The meeting was part of the city’s newest efforts to include bicycle and pedestrian services in its plans to overhaul …

Denton Forum

Weekly race series, group rides help Austin’s bike racing scene sizzle
by Austin 360
‘It’s definitely the hottest scene in Texas,’ says Andrew Willis, president of the Texas Bicycle Racing Association, the governing body of bike racing in …

Austin Race Scene

Local bike racers like racing community, competition
by Austin 360
Greg Hall got into bike racing 25 years ago as a way to lose weight. He stuck with it because he loves Austin’s cycling community.

‘It’s the team aspect of it,’ says Hall, 51, who works as a programmer for the Austin Water Utility. ‘I have so many friends through the sport.’

Now a Cat 3 intermediate racer, Hall still rides with the team that he started with, Violet Crown Sports Association. He rides an Austin-made Crumpton cycle that weighs just 16 pounds. …

A2W to bring Spring Urban Living Ride series in April need your …
by austinontwowheels.org
It’s spring time, and there’s no better way to experience Austin than by bike. I have teamed up with Keith Byrd from Social Cycling ATX to put together the Discover the City on Two Wheels Spring Urban Living Ride series in April to highlight the insane fun you can have on a bike in this city, and we are asking for your help to make this a reality. The three well organized events…

A2W

Recreational Sports Calendar and Sign-up Sheet – March 24, 2010
by San Antonio Express
Bicycling: Saturday, 9 a.m., Cibolo Ride, 20, 27, 39, 51, 66 and 71 miles, city hall parking lot, Cibolo. (210) 884-9470.

Bicycling: Saturday, 9 a.m., Stay Together Ride at the Cibolo Ride, 27 to 39 miles, city hall parking lot, Cibolo. (361) 701-5369.

Bicycling: Saturday, 9 a.m., LBJ 100 Bicycle Tour, 10, 30, 44 and 65 miles, LBJ National Historical Park, Stonewall. (210) 355-2645, (210) 414-8559.

Bowling: Saturday, Jus-T-Us Friends, Inc., Spring Classic Mixed Doubles Scholarship Tournament, Astro Bowling Center. Fee required. (210) 414-0405, (210) 628-1335.

Bicycling: Sunday, 9 a.m., Helotes to Castroville Ride, 26, 45 and 58 miles, parking lot across from Floore Country Store, Helotes. (210) 679-0513.

Bicycling: April 3, 8 a.m., Bullis Park Ride, 21, 34, 48 and 66 miles, Bullis County Park. (210) 863-6201.

Bicycling: April 4, 8 a.m., Castroville Ride, 11, 25 and 40 miles, park-and-ride off highway 90 by Sammy’s Restaurant in Castroville. (830) 931-9744.

Bicycling: April 4, 1:30 p.m., Fair Oaks Afternoon Ride, 20, 32 and 45 miles, Fair Oaks Ranch Center. (210) 698-6625.

Bicycling: April 10, 8 a.m., Boerne Ride, 25 to 70 miles, Boerne city hall. (210) 325-2500, (210) 524-9393.

Bicycling: April 11, 8 a.m., Freheit Ride, 16 to 51 miles, Freiheit Country Store east of New Braunfels on highway 1101. (210) 213-7382.

Bicycling: April 17, 8 a.m., Comal Elementary Ride, 28, 48, 55 and 72 miles, parking lot across from Comal Elementary School. (210) 497-6820.

Bicycling: April 18, 8 a.m., Woman Hollering Creek Ride, 26 to 70 miles, Judson High School, Converse. (210) 884-9470.

Bicycling: April 18, 8 a.m., Stay Together Ride at the Woman Hollering Creek Ride, 26 and 36 miles, Judson High School, Converse. (210) 240-6717.

Bicycling: April 24, 8 a.m., Cibolo Ride, 20, 27, 39, 51, 66 and 71 miles, Cibolo city hall. (210) 884-9470.

Bicycling: April 24, 8 a.m., Stay Together Ride at the Cibolo Ride, 27 to 39 miles, Cibolo city hall. (361) 701-5369.

Bicycling: April 25, 8 a.m., Rebecca Creek Ride, 16, 22, 32 and 48 miles, Bulverde Elementary School. (210) 884-9470.

Bicycling: April 25, 2 p.m., Grand Tour of SA Central, 25 miles, Blue Star parking lot across from Pioneer Flour Mill. (210) 533-3416.

Day 22 – Charity Cycle USA Journey Blog
San Diego to New York unassisted cycle in aid of the British Heart Foundation – Sponsor Us Now – www.justgiving.com/sandiego-to-nyc-cycle
Well as planned, today has been nice and easy. Due to the the distances between towns, we could either have done 25 miles or best part of 100, so we opted to do just 25, taking today almost as a rest day.

We set off late, about 11am, as we knew it would take us 2 hours at the most. The first 2 miles or so involved cycling through some very shifty looking neighbourhoods, and it looked a bit like ‘dog territory’. We cycled very slowly as dogs seem to take a dislike to fast moving things, however it didn’t take long for one to briefly chase us. Fortunately it only seemed intent on protecting it’s owners property and lost interest after about 10-20 meters when it realised that in fact we weren’t there to rob the house. …