Bike the Bricks
Presented by The City of McKinney and McKinney Velo
McKinney, TX
Friday, June 11, 2010
USA Cycling Event USA Cycling Permit # PENDING Online Registration Will Open Monday, March 15, 2010 at 1:00 AM ET
TXBRA North Regional Cup Event
The City of McKinney, Texas and the McKinney Velo Club are proud to announce the first annual “Bike the Bricks†criterium in Historic Downtown McKinney on Friday, June 11, 2010. Please plan to bring your family and friends for live entertainment (John Christopher Davis/Lone Star Attitude, Maylee Thomas Band and Buster Brown), food and drink, including a beer garden sponsored by Michelob Ultra, all located within the interior of the .9 mile, 8 turn course. The P 1, 2 race will be run under the lights as the racers chase a $10,000 purse. Race entries from this event will be donated to the City of McKinney’s Recreation Benefit Fund. This fund supports children who are eligible to participate in recreational activities that would otherwise be denied the opportunity due to lack of financial capabilities.
Our West Texas Adventure | The Path Less Pedaled
by Laura
You will hurt if you climb this road on a bicycle, but it will be absolutely worth it when you get to the top and have the chance to experience this amazing spot. Camping is $14 per night, and there is drinking water and a sky full of …
Massive turnout by cycling community at Third Nueces Street Bike Boulevard Open House
Opposition to Bike Boulevard shown to be loud but not deep
In the largest turnout to date, the City of Austin held its third and final open house on a proposal for Austin’s first bicycle boulevard on Nueces Street downtown. City staff estimated a total of 500 people attended the meeting while over 300 of these attendees came out in support of the League of Bicycling Voters proposal for the facility. …
by Payson McElveen
The rest of Team Bicycle Sport Shop didn’t do too shabby either, with Matt Gordon finishing 2nd, Brian Kuehl in 10th, and strong showings and good starts to the season for our other Pro/Cat 1 racers. Freddy Moore was 3rd in Cat 1 40-49 and Chris … Here’s a wonderfully flattering picture of me that close friend Ian Fleming took… and of course felt the need to post on the General Texas racing forum that 1000s of people read. Sweet. Had to do a bit of explaining on this …
Long road ahead . . . « Texas Tailwind
by Ben
Target the State TT championships, defend my Texas Time Trial Championship and do the State Championship road race and any other new races that pop-up on the calendar and look interesting. Should also have some interesting stuff soon to …
Day 26: Uvalde, Texas, to San Antonio « Just Another Bike Ride …
by brendanpleonard
Guy outside gas station in Uvalde this morning: Where y’all headed? Me: Florida. Guy: Yeah? Me: Yeah, it’s a long ride. Guy: I can’t believe that big guy over there can even ride a bicycle! Look how tall he is! …
Wednesday – Hump Day! « Connie’s Bike MS: Sam’s Club 2010 Ride Blog
by connie98
SO, I was back to the MS ride and upcoming t-shirt rallies. I was ECSTATIC to hear “yeahs!†when I announced the Bike MS ride last night. It turns out I had members from Team Texas Tough and Team Bikemart in my classes. …
My Knee is Killing Me! « Cycling
by admin
I’ve already decided to skip Pedal Thru the Pines, a wonderful hilly ride through some state parks near Bastrop, Texas this weekend. It would kill me to miss more. So for now, Bike Noob is out of the saddle. I’m pretty grumpy, …
For the first time in a long time I was able to ride my Raleigh M800 after work tonight. The temperature made it to 64 degrees and the sun was still up but fading over the horizon. The spongy part came about on the return when I noticed my front tire was losing air. I did make it home before all of the air was lost. I thought it was a puncture of some kind but when I inspected the tube I could not find one. Resorting to the water test I found the leak in the metal Presta stem where the threads begin below where the cap seats when you tighten it down. I have never had a tube fail in this manner. I usually have a spare tube but I must have used it last year so I will have to buy one tomorrow.
The statistics for the ride:
miles = 15.05
time = 1:12:32
average speed = 12.4
max speed = 19.0
ascending = 177 ft, descending = 183
no cadence since I do not have a sensor on this bike
Bike MS Bay to Bay Tour long version | Jason’s Bike
by admin
This is my 1st time riding the Ms150 ride from Houston To Austin, Texas and i am proud to be riding for the Dow Team. And my mom and me and my dad all ride for Dow and we have one thing to say Dow is going to do better then Texas Bike …
El Oso Corredor: Age
by Tony Maldonado
Running Texas Hill Country Trails … Tony Maldonado: I have enjoyed running since childhood, but it was not until about 1989 that I became really active again after being challenged by my brother to complete a 100K bicycle ride. … 4 years earlier I entered him in his first race. He came in last in a field of about 25 kids, but he never stopped trying to run as fast as he could. I will always remember the smile on his face as he crossed the finished line while his name …
Team Tom’s Bicycles: Primavera 2010
by Jason
Unfortunately, Texas likes to place blue reflectors in the middle of roads to indicate the presence of fire hydrants and they love implementing fire hydrants. These are placed in the worst possible place for a bike race and were the …
Day 25: Del Rio, Texas, to Uvalde, Texas « Just Another Bike Ride …
by brendanpleonard
Waitress: I could never ride my bike across the country. Brendan: I know, I’m actually not that into it, either. To San Antonio! Look who’s pedaling in the middle ring! And this is going uphill. Quite a day. That’s more like it. …
Michael Pincus’s Cycling blog: Lago weekend. cat 2/3s two 60 mile …
by Michael Pincus
Lago vista weekend, this was going to be the second year in a row that I completed the Lago course. Lago vista is a unique course because it is a very long climb followed by a very long and fast decent. Last year I hit a new speed record of almost 56 miles per hour. I headed up with Ronnie strange a little before noon on Friday to get to the races, which are about 30 miles west of A-TX…
Race To The Border 2010
from The cycling club at The University of Texas-Pan American
This Saturday March 6, 2010, will be the 1st annual Race To The Border 25 mile road race and bike tour
Over $2000 in cash Prizes
Pre-register this Friday at Wally’s bicycles from 5-7pm
Bike the Borderline: Licking Our Wounds
by Ant and Kat
Before clocking off for the night, we would like mention Russ and Laura once more; the couple we met in Van Horn, Texas who are cycling around the USA in the other direction. These guys are embarking on a crazy project and have posted a …
Technical courses greet racers at Texas Tech – VeloNews
by VeloNews.com
It was out to Lubbock this weekend for many collegiate cyclists in Texas and Oklahoma looking to compete in the first mass start events of the 2010 South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference season. Teams from as far away as Houston …
Cancer diagnosis leads to cross-country bike ride : North Texas Daily
by Arts-Life-Editor
When Jonathan Triantafyllou received a phone call last semester and learned that his close friend Philip Bayliss had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, he was shocked.
“He was 22,†said Triantafyllou, a music senior. “It shattered the idea of [invulnerability] you have at 20 or so.â€
Jonathan Triantafyllou, a music senior, lays out the 4,500 mile cross-country route he and his friend will undertake on their bicycles in June. Their ride will cover 15 states and raise funds for their newly created nonprofit, Bike Towards the Cure. The money will go toward cancer research. Photo by Drew Gaines/Photographer. …
Math Has Bike: Us Vs. Gary Fisher
by Math
Five seconds into Saturday morning’s ride, about 20 feet away from cycling legend Gary Fisher, I fell flat on my face. A small cheer went up among the sizable crowd of riders, celebrating my hilarious failure. “Somebody had to be the first” they said, almost in unison. I’d taken a symbolic hit for the team, apparently, so I didn’t feel all that embarrassed by it–I just got up and brushed myself off. I’m still getting used to these damned clip-on shoes. …
