Daily Texas Bicycle Blog and News Roundup for October 2nd

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Do you want a quick overview of last week’s Interbike product show from Las Vegas? Head over to the RoadBikeRider.com Newsletter website for their take on some of the hits of the show. Look for Issue No. 412 – 10/01/09:  New Products Report – Interbike ’09.

Instant Tea » Blog Archive » Cyclesomatic bicycle festival starts …
by Rich Lopez
Tonight they ride from the J.F.K. Memorial downtown to the Texas Theatre. If I actually had a bike, I’d consider Sunday’s event which sounds like a blast. Photopol.us hosts the Bicycle Scavenger Hunt at noon on Sunday. …

Cyclesomatic: 10-day festival to celebrate bicycles in Dallas
by Dallas Morning News
By ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News It will begin this evening with a group ride from downtown Dallas to a movie at the Texas Theater in Oak Cliff. …

My bike-it list
by Lawrence Journal World
Another is the Hotter’n Hell 100, a 100-mile ride in the heat of the summer in Wichita Falls, Texas, which I completed a couple of years ago. …

BILL CULLINS: Take a spin on one of my favorite routes around Lake …
by San Angelo Standard Times
By Bill Cullins SAN ANGELO, Texas — All cyclists have their “secret special” cycling route that is saved for those days when we just need that unique riding …

Mourning for dead cyclists also leads to questions
by San Antonio Express
According to investigators, the Bruehlers had taken off from their home near Braun and Tezel Road in San Antonio and were cycling north of Helotes on Texas …

Best Places to Rent a Bike For Cyclesomatic
by NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
The gist of the site’s findings: “Dallas boasts a vibrant cycling community, but riding in and around the city requires nerves of steel. …

Daily Texas Bicycle Blog and News Roundup for October 1st

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Denton Downtown Crit 4/5 Race 2009
from www.youtube.com
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The 40 minute race split up into the interesting 10 minutes. Crazy tough course. This was the Open 4/5 race, not the 35+ 4/5. … cycling road …

Area mayors to ride in Make-A-Wish benefit
by Allen American
The 100K bike rally is the inaugural cycling event of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas. Cyclists will begin at Plano’s Frito-Lay headquarters and …

Cyclesomatic Dallas (Prolly Is Not Probably)
by Prolly
Events will include a history-themed group ride, bicycle competitions, Bike to City Hall, Biketoberfest! in Bishop, an Urban Bazaar, a “Kiddical Mass” Ride, Bike to School Day, BBQ, Bands, Bicycle Films at the Texas Theatre, …

Another bicycling tragedy in the San Antonio area.

Woman killed when truck hits, drags bicycle 200 feet
by WOAI
BEXAR COUNTY, Texas — A woman in her mid-30’s was killed after she and man were hit by a truck as they were cycling Thursday morning. …

Married couple on bicycle killed in collision
by San Antonio Express
Gregory and Alexandra Bruehler were southbound on the shoulder of Texas 16, about three miles north of Helotes, when a pickup struck them from behind, …

The great question: where is the perfect saddle?

What saddle do you ride? — The results « Bike Noob
by rainycamp
Dave, from Round Rock, Texas, said of the Aliante, “I have been on a lot of saddles and this is the first one that I can train on regularly and keep my saddle sores manageable.” It’s a very different ride than the two from Brooks. …

ChipSeal: Nice Meeting You, Officer Watson
by ChipSeal
545.363 which applies to motor vehicles, not bicycles. But he missed that opportunity to avoid embarrassment. I tried Officer Watson. I am sure that there are many places in the Texas Transportation Code (TTC) that you know better than I do , but I am confident I know my way around … (a) a person operating a bicycle on a roadway who is moving slower than the other traffic on the roadway shall ride as near as practicable to the right curb or edge of the roadway, unless: …

Across the nation, bicycling a ‘chick thing’
by San Antonio Express
Robin Stallings, executive director of Bike Texas, says that an increase in hosted group rides in which no one gets dropped also are attracting more women. …

Riding with a Purpose
by Herald Zeitung
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Lone Star Chapter will celebrate its 20th annual South Texas fundraising ride to support the estimated 20000 …

This is a long ride to try to win a $250 gas card.

Man’s bike trip could win Facebook contest
by Naperville Sun
Broeder’s trip began in Austin, Texas, on May 15 and continued clockwise around the US He finished back in Austin 100 days later. …

Daily Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for September 30th

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Music festivalgoers have added parking options this year
by Austin American-Statesman
All 150 of the shop’s bicycles have been rented for the weekend, with 30 to 40 of them coming from Bike Texas, an advocacy organization, she said. …

Jack and Adam’s Bicycles: Keep Austin Beautiful Awards
by Jack and Adam’s Bicycles:
Jack & Adam’s Bicycles recycling campaign called The Green Team Bicycle Re-Cycle Project has been awarded Honorable Mention in the 2009 Keep Austin Beautiful Awards. The KAB Awards recognize the efforts made by individuals and groups to …

LOBV meeting draws cycling leaders, plans for future | Austin On …
by elliott
At the meeting were leaders from most of the larger cycling organizations in town including Austin Cycling Association, Austin Ridge Riders, Yellow Bike Project, and Bike Texas as well as community outreach staff from Bicycle Sport Shop …

LyondellBasell Bike Around the Bay
by Family Badge
The ride will once again start in Anahuac, Texas and continue along a scenic route that includes many fascinating sights and highlights. …

dailymile | 2nd Annual North Texas Bicycle Rally
by dailymile
2nd Annual North Texas Bicycle Rally (Road Race) has 1 participants on dailymile. The North Texas Bicycle Rally (NTBR) is an annual fund raising event that …

I plan on riding the Pineywoods Purgatory this Saturday as well.

The New Me: planning for the purgatory
by Chrissy
The Pineywoods Purgatory, an organized bicycle ride through East Texas, is this weekend. If you read my other blog, Long Distance Vegan, you know that I signed up for the 72 mile route. Yes, that’s right. 72 miles. …

Gears & Sore Rears: Finally, the Gulf
by Gears and Sore Rears
Texas quite abruptly flattened right out. Flat like a pool table. Today continued much the same. Flat land cycling is the hardest. You can give me mountainous, or even hilly cycling anytime. Flat land cycling offers no gliding or free …

Gears & Sore Rears: The Punisher
by Gears and Sore Rears
Good cycling today. Highs were in the 90’s which we are quite used to at this point. Gentle grades made it easy, although this Texas chip coat is rough and slows the bike somewhat. Leaving Eagle Pass we cycled through desert of course, …

Long Distance Vegan: overly ambitious
by Chrissy
The Pineywoods Purgatory is an organized bicycle ride that winds along the hills and forests of East Texas. Participants can choose between routes that vary in length and include 25, 52, 72 and 102 mile long routes. Last year, I rode the 25 mile route on my … It was, at the time, my longest ride to date and also did I mention I only had a mountain bike? This year, I have an actual road bicycle AND I’ve been on a number of long rides, the longest of which was a 50 miler. …

Texas Bicycling Daily Round September 29th

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Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day coming up on October 3
from Cyclingnews News Headlines
The International Mountain Bike Association (IMBA) is supporting its sixth annual International Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day (TAKMBD) on Saturday, October 3, 2009. Rides are being organized by mountain bike clubs around the globe. At many events, local clubs, bike shops and volunteers will teach kids mountain bike skills, bike safety and lead group rides. …

Spike Builds Awareness through Mamma Jamma Ride
by OurSports Central (press release)
For the Mamma Jamma Ride, Spike will be riding his recumbent bicycle through the Hill Country and Texas towns such as Bertram and Liberty Hill with hopes of …

Kennedy: We must protect bicyclists before we face another tragedy
by Fort Worth Star Telegram – Fort Worth,TX,USA
An average of one bicyclist a week is killed in Texas. Sometimes, that’s the bicyclist’s fault. Under Texas law, bicyclists must ride “as near as …

Pineywoods Purgatory rolls on Saturday
by Lufkin Daily News
The popular biking event takes riders through the rolling hills and forests of East Texas at several different lengths — with 25, 52, 72 and 102-mile routes …

Ready to Ride
by Seguin Gazette-Enterprise
“I found that cycling helped me beat stress,” Leal said. “So, I would go out for a spin whenever I felt stressed out.” In the summer of 2006 Leal started …

Long journey ahead
by Campbell River Mirror
Beginning Oct. 12, Jody Brin of Campbell River will be participating in Givetolive’s “Cycle for Life, Celebrate Life: Vancouver to Austin Texas. …

Maybe it would be best to avoid Texas Tech campus when riding your bike?

Video shows Texas police tasering student pinned to the ground and …
by Duncan Riley
The video, taken during a charity cycling event called Tour de Tech Terrace shows Texas Tech student Hunter Temperton pinned to the ground by two officers. Despite Temperton not moving, at the 42 second mark an officer tasers him on the …