Daily Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for October 14th

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Meeting Tonight in San Antonio for Cyclists to Voice Their Concerns
by InjuryBoard.com (blog)
The MPO has a Bicycle Mobility Advisory Committee that is charged with conducting a continuous planning process to improve transportation systems. …

Beginning Bicycle Commuting: BABBLE emerges as the force in …
by Doohickie
Okay, I oversold that a bit, but if you are interested in joining several local bloggers in a ride in and around Fort Worth this Saturday, October 17, meet us at the Texas & Pacific Rail Station on the south end of downtown at about 10 …

Cyclists to air their grievances
by San Antonio Express
A white-painted bicycle marks the spot on Texas 16 near Helotes where bicyclists Gregory Bruehler, 42, and his 36-year-old wife, Alexandra, died after being …

LSCOL Day 8 – Buda, TX to San Antonio to Houston – San Antonio …
from travelpod.com
It was a beautiful area for a festival but rather chilly after dark especially when not peddling a bicycle. Bob’s arm in the sling and skinned up face made one man curious enough to ask, so he got to hear all about the bike ride and our …

University of Texas Cycling Team Blog: The Swimmin’ Burnt Orange …
by Ken
The Swimmin’ Burnt Orange Bike Tour
Last Saturday, before leaving for Blanco, Texas, I checked the local weather report: 15% chance of rain and moderately cloudy. Perfect! I started out for Blanco knowing that this was going to be a great successful bike tour. Mother Nature might have had other plans. …

Forts tour cyclists pedal through
by Mineral Wells Index
In addition to Oklahoma, the Metroplex and Mineral Wells, Hoogstra said cyclists came from the Texas Hill Country area, Abilene, Wichita Falls, Austin, …

Bicyclists Want Safer Streets in Dallas, Texas :: Dallas Fort …
by Dallas Fort Worth Car Accident Lawyer Blog.
Over 100 bicyclists gathered outside of Dallas City Hall on Wednesday to push for safer and more accessible roadways for cyclists and pedestrians.

The event was organized by Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, and supported the decision of the city council to endorse the policies of the National Complete Streets Coalition. …

Ryan Lee Dorsey
by Ryan Lee Dorsey
My last race on the Texas Mountain Bike calendar was the Huntsville Classic, where I raced in the Pro category and placed 10th, but really ended up 9th due to Mitch Comardos’ doping bust. After racing a few of these sea level, …

Daily Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for October 12th

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Check out the comment ride report for the Texas Fort Tour from this past weekend by Debbie Breaud.

Zak’s Sidewalk: Missing the point
by Zak
I was reading on the TXBRA.org forums (Texas Bicycle Racing Association) today where someone had posted a lament on Critical Mass. Nasty rumor that there’s going to be one of those “critical mass” anarchy bike rides this week, …

The Block Party at the End of the Longest Cycling Event in Dallas History
by Dallas Observer
Just around the corner, Denton’s Texas-Toast fixie crew ripped up 7th Street with an acrobatic barrage of bike tricks. The Boom Boom Box closed the evening …

2009 Texas Custom Bicycle Show: Frame Builder Profile: Crumpton Cycles
by info@rideDaltex.com
The Second Annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show will be held Oct 23-25 at the Austin LiveStrong Challenge Expo featuring fine frame builders from the Lone Star State. Bicycles crafted from steel, titanium, and carbon fiber will be on …

MS Alamo Ride to the River | Mom’s Toolbox
by Amy
The MS Society made the right choice, but I must admit I am bummed. This is the third MS ride in Texas this year and the third that one day had to be canceled due to nasty weather. I was signed up to ride in two of them. …

Killeen Daily Herald
by Killeen Daily Herald
“Copperas Cove is Texas’ most bike-friendly city and they’ve hosted the state race here for the last three or four years,” Hollinger said. …

Daily Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for October 11th

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Sometimes you need to ride someplace that you have not tried before. While this is not in Texas the area is a great place to ride. Plus this is from my hometown newspaper.

Bike the Great Allegheny Passage for inexpensive fun

BOSTON, Pa. — In the end, after crossing six soaring bridges, burrowing through four mountain tunnels, journeying over the Eastern Continental Divide and taking in 330 miles of jaw-dropping vistas, a formerly dubious Lolly Marchant, 61, dismounts her bicycle and declares that given the chance, she’d do it all again.
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Marchant just has reached the end of the Great Allegheny Passage, one in a vast network of bike/walking paths cleaved from abandoned rail lines. Stretching 136 miles from Cumberland, Md., to nearby Duquesne, Pa., the trail links to the C&O Canal towpath that starts in Washington, D.C., creating a traffic-free cyclists’ haven. …

A bicycle and a life built for two
by Belleville News Democrat
“They took a trip to Texas three months ago with one of her sons and his wife. They are always doing something. “For Easter, her and Al would bake cookies …

Cancer survivor rides to bring hope for others
by Fort Worth Star Telegram
“I wanted to do something that got their attention to make them feel like ‘he survived, look at him, and now he’s riding a bicycle around Texas maybe I can …

Prepare at least a little bit for your long ride « Bike Noob
by rainycamp
On Saturday, my wife Pat and I were out in rural Texas, volunteering at the first Mamma Jamma ride for breast cancer research. The ride featured routes of 10, 27, 46, 70 and 100 miles. I was part of the route safety crew for the 46-mile …

mtb law girl has been rather silent on her blog for a while. Finally a new post has arrived.

mtb law girl: San Gabriel Park in Georgetown
by Jen
I am totally digging the little town of Georgetown, Texas. The quaint town square, the lake, and San Gabriel Park. We headed over to Georgetown yesterday for a cookout with friends at San Gabriel Park and play boccie ball, horseshoes, washers, badminton, football (brought our own). ….

Daily Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for October 10th

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Cross Club Bike Race (Austin, TX)
Directed and Shot by Adrian Zamora; Edited by Gabriel Diehl
This is a short documentary on a nighttime bike race around Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas during rainy conditions. Only in Austin!!!By …
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Irving Police on Bikes
from www.youtube.com
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The Irving Police Department is now using bicycles to make Irving even safer. … Irving Police Cops Bikes Bicycles …

We saw miles and miles of Texas « Jim’s Bike Blog
by jimsbikeblog
Texas flag EL PASO — We crossed on Friday into the fourth state on our transcontinental bicycle journey and what did we see? We saw miles and miles of Texas, more than 1000, in fact — more than a third of our cross-country trip from San …

Bicycle Race: Angela Hunt Explains the Rift Over Separate Cyclist-Only Lanes
by Dallas Observer
And so we headed to the Texas Theatre last night for a movie screening to find out why bike lanes rub some the wrong way. “People are not upset,” council …

Huntsville Bike Committee » Why we have a bicycle committee …
by Peter
Robin Stallings, executive director of BikeTexas, the educational arm of the Texas Bicycle Coalition, notes the prevailing sentiment among the many prosecutors and judges he’s consulted. “If we can’t win, we’re not going to try to …

The League of American Bicyclists Announces Bicycle Sport Shop as a Platinum Bicycle Friendly Business

“Nothing compares with the simple pleasure of a bike ride.”
– President John F. Kennedy

Austin, TX – (September 17, 2009) Wednesday, September 16th the League of American Bicyclists announced Bicycle Sport Shop as a Platinum Level Bicycle Friendly Business. Bicycle Sport Shop received the Platinum designation because of their commitment towards a smaller carbon footprint and increased corporate social responsibility. In addition, the store, exceeds requirements for bike parking, showers and a percentage of employees who commute.

ACA looking for volunteers for this year’s Wurst Ride | Austin …
from atxbs.com
The ACA folks have recently been given the opportunity to take over the production of the annual Wurst Ride, a fund-raising ride from Austin to New Braunfels which cumulates with beer and sausages for everyone! Not that most…

LSCOL Day 7 – Salado to Austin – Austin, United States Travel Blog
from www.travelpod.com
Almost everyone fit around a round Texas size table for some Texas size portions. . After our delicious lunch, it wasn’t raining but it was cold and windy and we wouldn’t have enough time to ride our bikes all the way to Austin. …

elpasonaturally: Jobe Destroys the Mountain to River Corridor
by Jim Tolbert
Just this past Monday evening Jobe met with the Borderland Mountain Bike Association who first discovered his clandestine slashings of huge swaths of desert. He told them pointedly that he intends to quarry 480 acres of the land that the State of Texas General Land Office … It is a real place such as my hometown of El Paso, Texas along the frontera in the Chihuahuan Desert beneath the Franklins, near the Hueco, Sacramento and Organ mountains, along the Rio Grande . …

ANTHONY WILSON: Some not ready to climb that mountain
by San Angelo Standard Times
Which came as a devastating and complete surprise when I discovered this about 0.3 miles into my first and only mountain bike ride last fall. …