Mike’s Life and Training Blog: MLK Day
by Mike
…I have been keeping consistent to the stationary bike, around 60 minutes per day, a few hard but mostly easy spins, the routine is a good one and soon enough I can get back outdoors now and then for a real ride. My road bike is in the shop for some new brakes and seat, it should be ready to pick up in a couple off days. I haven’t rode for awhile, being content to drill on the stationary bike. The weather has been unfriendly for cycling as well. My brother just recently bought his first road bike, I am ecstatic about this…

Bike Reviews » Crossing the Texas Plains by Bicycle
by jennifer8163
Crossing Texas by bicycle is not an easy feat at all and certainly I am not suggesting that anyone try to cross from El Paso to Beaumont; that would indeed be a nightmare. As big as Texas is there are only a few really good routes to …

Bicycle Enthusiast and Professional Caffeine Abuser: Mostly neon …
by Tim
1991 Texas Road Race Championships.
Back then finishing the event meant something. 4 previous attempts met with failure on my part. The course was in the heart of the Texas Hill Country north of San Antonio, and while the altitude might be lacking, the steepness of the grades wasn’t. In ’91 and ’92 the course was “T” shaped with the start and finish at the bottom of the “T” which was at the top of the steepest climb (see the last 3 images). The feed zone was on the right part of the “T” and was probably as steep. …

Racing Across America on a Recumbent Bike – The Fire Ant Gazette
by Eric
Racing Across America on a Recumbent Bike. This is the time of year when bicyclists in Texas start getting cabin fever. Sure, there are six more months of subzero winter days for all the Yankees, but we’ve had our full quota of freezes …

Bicycle Tour #2 – Wimberley, TX – Lessons Learned
from www.bikegurus.com
At 9am on Wednesday, December 30th I rolled out of my driveway on my Trek Valencia and embarked on my second bicycle tour.  My destination, Wimberley, TX, was about 50 miles northeast of my home.

I planned the route using Garmin’s Mapsource program on my PC and downloaded the route to my Garmin Edge 705 so I’d have the benefit of turn-by-turn directions…

This is not Texas bicycling but I could not pass up the news from my hometown newspaper. McConnelsville is on the Muskingum River in Southeast Ohio. Very rural and some hills.

Bicycle tour to make a stop in McConnelsville
BY BRIAN McKEE (Zanesville Times Recorder)
McCONNELSVILLE — The Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure will include a stop in McConnelsville this year.

The annual event will take place June 19-26, and the expected 3,000 riders will gather for the tour on June 19 at the Hocking County Fairgrounds in Logan. They will begin cycling on June 20, covering an average of 50 miles per day, and will stay overnight in McConnelsville on June 20. The cyclists also will visit Marietta, Athens and McArthur before returning to Logan on June 26.

“McConnelsville had been a daytime stop on GOBA several years ago,” Amy Grove, of the OSU Extension office in McConnelsville, said. “This time we have an overnight stop. This is quite a coup for McConnelsville.This tour averages 2,100 to 3,100 cyclists.”

During the past 20 years, GOBA has been instrumental in generating nearly $10 million in tourism revenues in the towns along the route, as well as providing access to Ohio’s rural treasures to cyclists from all over the U.S. …

FtW CycEx: Sandbagging
by rab
This past weekend was the Texas State Championship weekend for cyclocross. As some would put it, the sandbagger’s cup. CX has a knack for bringing out the accusation of sandbagging better than possibly any cycling discipline. …