Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for November 21st

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Austin towels off for Mellow Johnny’s race
from singletrack.com by Steve Frothingham
Steady rain — road-closing, trail-soaking, river-swelling rain — kept anyone from getting an early taste of the singletrack at Lance Armstrong’s Juan Pelota Ranch on Friday.

But if you managed to find your way through the detours and around the flooded roads out to the ranch, the rain gave an opportunity to chat with two of the Austin area’s most knowledgeable mountain bike racing experts on the eve of the weekend’s racing at the ranch. …

Pondero: Not the Ugliest Part of Texas
by Christopher Johnson
The Denton Turkey Roll ride was today, but that is not what this is about. Though invited to the Denton ride, I gave up on it after a busy week and a long list of waiting chores. Unexpectedly, I was able to persuade my sweet bride to shuck the chores for lunch in Muenster.
That means I was able to actually pre-ride the route of the December 19th, First Annual Fall Finale Forty-mile County Path Ramble. …

Beaudet tests the new bike facilities
by Austin 360
Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Program Manager with the City of Austin in Department of Public Works, has written about her observations of the new facilities recently installed. …

It is my pleasure to write about my experience riding the new facilities recently installed as part of the City’s experimental bicycle facility study, …

Motorist denies wrongdoing in fatal bicycle accident
by San Antonio Express
The Bruehlers were pedaling along a wide shoulder of Texas 16 when Sullaway’s Ford F-150 King Ranch struck them after veering off the road just north of …

Russ Sikes: Humanizing our urban space one park at a time
by Dallas Morning News
This year for example, federal spending on pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly infrastructure among America’s top 52 metropolitan areas comes to a whopping …

City of Austin gets Bicycle Friendly Business award | Fit City
By Pamela LeBlanc, League of American Bicyclist…
The City of Austin is currently the only city in Texas to receive the award and is one of only three government entities in the nation designated. BFB businesses make bicycle friendliness a core element in the workplace and use …

Travel West Texas – National Geographic Adventure Magazine
TWO: Pinto Canyon Road winds through the stunning Chinati Mountain backcountry, but it’s for high-clearance vehicles only (not hard to come by . . . this is Texas). Soak in the hundred-degree pools at Chinati Hot Springs, … THREE: Rent a knobby-tired bike in Terlingua, and buy some extra tubes, from Desert Sports ($30; desertsportstx.com), then set out on the Contrabando Multi-Use Trail System’s 30 miles of singletrack or the 600 miles of fire road running through Big …

Lost and found in the middle of Houston
by CultureMap – Houston,TX,USA
Flecks of blood started to appear on my sweat-drenched pants as I watched the railroad ties thudding away beneath my bike tires. The thorns I’d wandered through a few minutes earlier and a chain-link fence separated me from the little circle on my GPS I’d been trying to reach for the last hour. …

November 19th Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup

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New Conservation Plan for Hays County – Needs your feedback or it …
by jburatti
I monitored golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia) demography at the Belton Lake Outdoor Recreation Area (BLORA) on Fort Hood, Texas to determine impacts of mountain biking since the opening of a mountain bike park. …

November Update from City of Austin on bike infrastructure …
by elliott
It is my pleasure to write about my experience riding the new facilities recently installed as part of the City’s experimental bicycle facility study, in process and in partnership with the University of Texas Center for Transportation …

City of Austin gets Bicycle Friendly Business award
by Austin 360
The City of Austin is currently the only city in Texas to receive the award and is one of only three government entities in the nation designated. …

16 block ‘Nueces Bike Boulevard’ planned for late Spring
by News 8 Austin
It will serve to link areas between downtown and the University of Texas. According to the plan, super routes will be wider and other bicycle or pedestrian …

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 11/19- 11/25/09 | Austin On …
by elliott
Bicycle Advisory Council 6:30 PM One Texas Center, 505 Barton Springs Rd, 8th floor large conference room. The Austin Bicycle Advisory Council is a committee of Austinites representing cyclists’ interests to the City of Austin and meets monthly to … The Capital City BMX opened in November 2008 and offers you a chance to learn and race BMX. BMX races are held every Sunday with rider check-in 1-2 PM. Cost $10/rider. (There is also practice time on Monday’s and Friday’s. …

Simpler bicycle design appeals to enthusiasts : North Texas Daily
by Managing-Editor
“There is a really large following in Denton,” said Marty De Voss, who works at Bullseye Bicycle shop and has been riding fixed gears for about two years. “They’re more useful around here than mountain bikes are.” …

Riding cross-country for not 1 cause, but 2
by Dallas Voice – Dallas,TX,USA
15, Lee and Antigone pedaled into Dallas on a cross-country bicycle journey … ride by participating in the Out of the Darkness Overnight Walkathon, …

Jack and Adam’s Bicycles: Texas 4000 Fundraiser This Thursday!
by Jack Murray
Texas 4000 is a non-profit organization that hosts an annual charity bike ride from Austin, Texas, to Anchorage, Alaska. Around 55 University of Texas students make this trek each year to spread Hope, Knowledge, and Charity across North America. The C4 or Come Cure Cancer Concert will be held on Thursday, November 19th at Scholz Garten from 8 PM to midnight to benefit the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. …

Lone Star Cyclocross Festival Brings Championship Cycling to …
by editor@bikerumor.com (Bikerumor.com / Tyler…
The Lone Star Cyclocross Festival will feature two days of championship racing in Austin, Texas, on January 16 and 17, 2010. Cyclists from across Texas and around the nation will descend on the city for the MLK holiday weekend and the chance to race against the best. Furthermore, the University of Texas Cycling Team will be co-hosting their conference championship at the event. All races will be held at Travis County’s East Metro Park, a beautiful facility featuring an enclosed pavilion with a pier that provides unfettered views of the entire course. …

Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for November 18th

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Before Dallas Gets New Bike Plan, Bids Will Be Taken and Committees Will Be Formed
by Dallas Observer
… North Central Texas Council of Governments and the city of Dallas will release a Request for Proposal to firms for a bicycle-friendly design for Dallas. …

Edinburg Review, Edinburg, TX > News > EEAB to look at bicycling …
As the home of UTPA, the largest university in south Texas, and as the first Sierra Club designated CoolCity in the Rio Grande Valley, the EEAB wants Edinburg to be the most bicycle friendly city in South Texas. …

Mudbath for Beth : Velo Bella
by Jen
The race is actually part of the Texas Mountain Bike Racing Association’s Fall Cup points series (weird, huh?), so the turn out is pretty good with lots of fast folks from Texas coming over to race. I raced on these trails for the duathlon I … The ride was going well, rather uneventful, just muddy, until I clipped a handlebar on a little tree…I crashed. But, no harm done, just a little muddy, so up I got and on I went. Then, sometime in next few mud puddles or stream …

Fat Cyclist » Blog Archive » Reductio ad Absurdum
by fatty
I have a Raleigh 925 steel SS road bike that I ride a lot. Unlike yours though, it’s not ridiculously light(actually not at all light – probably weighs as much as most people’s geared bikes). I’m digging the cool bars. I went with the on- one Mungo … Comment by Bicycle Bill | 11.17.2009 | 2:35 pm. And if you drill out the water bottle and used a Baggie for a liner, you might save another couple dozen grams. (btw, it works; I saw this once on TOSRV back in the late ’70s) …

Interesting cycling stuff from the Statesman
by Austin 360 (subscription) – Austin,TX,USA
By Jason Whaley
There’s lots of interesting stuff regarding cycling in today’s American-Statesman. Here’s some brief versions with links for the complete stories. …

The City of Austin by late spring plans to turn Nueces Street downtown into a “bicycle boulevard,” a two-wheel haven that would have still unspecified devices to slow down or even discourage car traffic on Nueces between Third Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. …

Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for November 17th

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Cannondale enters city bike fray with Dutchess concept bike …
by elliott
As a dedicated transportation cyclist and builder of city bikes, I have been pretty disappointed by what the bicycle industry has attempted to offer the US. …

Team San Angelo
by Bill Cullins
It’s almost time for the Turkeys to Trot. The 2nd annual ASU Turkey Trot will take place this coming Saturday, Nov. 21, at 10:00. As per tradition, the awards will be pumpkin pies. The race location is on the mall in front of ASU’s University Center, registration from 9:00-9:45 and race start at 10:00…

Council’s on the TxDOT Money Trail to Fund “Non-Traditional …
by Unfair Park
The city of Dallas has till December 11 to submit to the Texas Department of Transportation a list of projects it thinks worthy of the Transportation Enhancement Program, through which TxDOT doles out federal funds for so-called … Well, bicycle and pedestrian trails, for starters; or, the restoration of old trolley-car lines, always a trendy move; or, landscape beautification. According to the state’s guidelines, “Projects should go above and beyond standard …

Get tickets now for 3rd annual Eat Local Week
by Austin 360
The market is one of three starting places for the Urban Farm Bicycle Tour ($25 for individuals, $45 for families), which will hit a handful of local farms …