What’s Turning the Spokes on the Net September 17th

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The September 20th issue of  Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine covered a topic near and dear to me since I am over 60. The lead article is “Preventing Loss of Muscle Strength with Aging”. The opening paragraph sets the stage:

“As you age, you lose muscle size and strength much faster than you lose endurance or coordination.  Researchers at the University of Nottingham in England show that a major cause of loss of muscle is that aging prevents muscles from responding to insulin and that exercising helps to slow this loss of muscle size and strength (The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, September 2009).”

Read more at Dr. Mirkin’s website.

David Byrne’s ‘Bicycle Diaries’ worth a spin
by Fort Worth Star Telegram
Now, he makes the journeys literal in Bicycle Diaries, a chronicle of his travels around the world by bicycle. He dashes across the US (including a Texas …

The Day Independence Brewery Came to Visit | Hammerhead Bicycles …
by sean
Friday 9/11/09 Austin, Texas Hammerhead bicycle shop. It had been raining all day, and being a Friday – some beer would be very nice. The question was – will Rob from Independence brewing first show?, and then second – be on time? …

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 9/17- 9/23/09 | Austin On Two …
by elliott
The Texas Custom Bicycle Show is less than six weeks away, and to wet your appetite for locally hand made bicycles, the Austin frame building community is holding hopefully what will be the first in a series of Austin … RunFAR Racing Services is back doing their twice a month TT series on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. An approximately 8 mile Bike Time Trial, the race is free or all Chip Owners. You can rent a chip for $5.00 if you do not own a chip or …

What’s Turning the Spokes on the Net September 16th

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OUCH-Maxxis brings four, including Floyd Landis, to Dallas’ TX TOUGH crit on Thursday
by sfrothingham
Press Release OUCH Presented by Maxxis gets Tough in Texas Thursday Oakland, CA – Four riders from the OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis will be on hand to take on the Texas Tough Grand Prix in Dallas tomorrow. The Tough is run on a 1.5 km course around the heart of Dallas, including Victory Park and the American Airlines Center. The race is the second to last installment in the USA Crit Series. Austin, Texas resident Pat McCarty will make the drive to Dallas for the race, …

Clueless Noob Trial Journal – ObservedTrials.net
by zenit
Unfortunately, none of us have extensive bicycle experience or friends who know anything about the technical aspects of trials. As far as I know, trials doesn’t exist in Austin. So I decided to build this journal as a bottom up guide … Location: austin texas. Posts: 8. i miss my dumpster bike, i used to have a diamondback of some sort, now im stuck with a redline rival for a trials bike(with a 44-10 gear ratio). im in austin too, it should be nice to see someone doing …

EDITORIAL: Bicycle police: Good idea in neighborhoods
by TMCnet
El Paso police officers riding bicycles are making a good effort to interact with the proverbial man on the street, and that means it’s a good chance to interact with the officers. That’s how it’s supposed to work in a community. …

Top pro cyclists to race in TX Tough Grand Prix II in Dallas
by Pegasus News
The TX Tough Grand Prix II, which is free and open to the public, will feature a field of the sport’s top riders, such as: former Tour de France champion …

2009 Texas Custom Bicycle Show: Frame Builder Profile: Gallus Cycles
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Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, I spent 5 years in Glasgow, Scotland attending architecture school. While living there my passion for cycling, especially urban riding, grew while working as a bicycle messenger. …

What’s Turning the Spokes on the Net September 15th

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Pedalcycling-A Bicycling Blog: Fun with Bicycle Tires
by Ron
When I think about it, I’ve had a very charmed couple of thousand miles on the CrossTrail. Yes, the rear wheel had to be trued (mostly because of the weight I force it to carry) a couple of times, and the spokes on the rear wheel…

Thousands gather for a hot time in Wichita Falls, Texas
by NewsOK.com
It’s 7 a.m. Saturday, and the main drag is in gridlock. As far as one can see, nothing but helmets.

After “The Star Spangled Banner,” a military flyover and a cannon blast, 14,000 of us go for a bike ride. The Hotter’n Hell Hundred, the largest single-day…

Triathlon wrap-up
by Big Spring Herald – Big Spring,TX,USA
They came, they saw, they swam, rode and ran.

Organizers are hailing what they called a highly successful Comanche Warrior Triathlon, which attracted more than 100 participants from across Texas to Comanche Trail Park Saturday.

“Everything went great,” Event Coordinator Debbie Wegman…

Using My Garmin 260 GPS When I Ride

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I have been eyeballing one of the Garmin 305/605/705 bicycle specific GPS computers but the cost has held me back. Last month we went on vacation and I bought a Garmin car GPS model 260. Looking through the settings I found that you could set it for bicycle use in addition to automobile. Also you can select offroad as an option on the routing.

Making those changes I took it on a ride to test out the recording. The text to voice feature talked me through its attempt to get me back home but it did record my route. I muted the sound on my next ride. Now the question was how do I download the route information and show it on a map.

Searching around I found a free program EasyGPS that works with the Garmin 260. They also offer a paid program ExpertGPS that includes US Geologic Survey maps. EasyGPS does not include any maps.

Using the EasyGPS program I downloaded the route data from my Garmin 260. Next I went to Bikely.com and imported the route data and presto I have the ride on a Google map.

Now to keep routes separate I delete the trip data from the 260 after each ride while saving the file on my computer. I can see trip data on the 260 by tapping on the speed area of the map. This gives things like average speed, altitude, total miles, etc.

Now I get dual duty from my car GPS and do not need to spend the big bucks on the 305/605/705 units.