Daily Blog and News Roundup for May 26th

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Green city guide – Austin, Texas
by Examiner.com – USA
By becoming a supporter for $20, visitors can check out a bicycle from the Yellow Bike Project’s Bicycle Library. A few other local bicycle shops rent out …

Insects in the City: Biking for charity
by Mike Merchant, PhD
Some of you have probably already heard about the Jenkins brothers’ bicycle ride for charity. Bobby, Raleigh and Dennis are owners/managers of three different ABC Termite and Pest Control offices in Austin, Houston and Dallas, respectively. … an organization that helps low income families and individuals with food and housing assistance, Dennis is riding for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society and Raleigh is riding for the National Kidney Foundation of Southeast Texas. …

Team Jamis prepares for US Cup #3 Bump & Grind
by adam
Team manager Jason Sager made a return to his Texas roots with a win at the Golden Bike event in Coldspring, TX. The mountain biker followed it up with a 2nd place in San Antonio’s University Oaks criterium the following weekend before …

THSJ Women: THSJ Women Take State Crit Championship!
by Lori Barrett
It was so close, no one celebrated until the officials saw the race camera, and Jen, due to fantastic riding, tenacity and a great bike throw, was deemed the 2009 Texas State Criterium Champion. An incredible ride, by an incredible …

Durango Texas: Village Creek Grim Reaper With Snakes & The MuMu Lady
by Durango
During my bike ride, a couple days ago, at Village Creek, I had several bad encounters. Same thing today. A crew was trimming the jungle at the sides of the trail. One had a long scythe-like thing, you know that thing the Grim Reaper …

Cyclists Combating Cancer ride Saturday
by Frisco Enterprise – Plano,TX,USA
Numerous national and international cycling events have been hosted at the Superdrome, bringing the worlds best riders to North Texas. …
Area track cyclists will attempt to ride 644 laps around the Superdrome in Frisco velodrome 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday to raise funds for the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF). Organizers say 644 laps equals one hundred miles! …

331 Miles: Video from Karie’s Ride
by 331 Miles
A few posts ago, I blogged about my experience at Karie’s Ride.  Not only was it a great ride, but some Team McAllen members took the time to document the ride on CycleTube, a cycling video site that they recently launched. …

Daily Blog and News Roundup for May 25th

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Half 100 Miles of Nowhere « two wheels. one love. no rush.
by 10thousandfeet
Winner of the U23 Female Indoor Texas 50-Miler category! DSC_0259 Unable to ride on the appointed day, I saddled up the Felt on the trainer this morning and set out – on a full stomach of coffee and peanut butter toast – to do 50 miles …

Fort Worth $113 million bicycle plan on route
by Fort Worth Business Press – Fort Worth,TX,USA
Bike Fort Worth is built upon a plan the city of Fort Worth and the North Central Texas Council of Governments put together in 1999, which was called the …

Comamitc.blogspot.com: What to think?
by Mitch Comardo
It made for a super fun, mountain bike feeling course where lines really mattered. Me and my teammate Kevin Kremke got in the break of the day about 30 minutes into a 90 minute race. With about 30 minutes to go I got lucky and attack. … They let up just enough to let the break stick and Kevin was able to pull a 4th place out of the deal. It was overall a stellar weekend and a good way to lead into this week… The Texas State Criterium Championships. …

Daily Blog and News Roundup for May 24th

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Vintage Bicycle Discussion Area
by Menotomy Vintage Bicycles
I suspect that, even in Texas, the only vehicles required to carry liability insurance and the only ones requiring licensing for their operators are the ones that can do some serious damage, i.e. MOTOR vehicles.  … (This a comment about the safe distance bill. Not from the affirmative side.)

MTB Race News: Texas Mountain Bike Racing Series Wrap-Up
by mtbracenews.com
7 Craig Kunz Bicycle Sport Shop 224 8 Bryan Fawley Park Place Lexus 222 9 Noel Reuter Bicycle Sport Shop 192 10 Jorge Munoz Gold’s Gym Laredo 188. With the intense summer heat coming back to Texas, racing will stop until the fall series …

Under the Dome: Memorial Day weekend
by Steve Harrelson
In between rain showers yesterday, I went out on a 70-mile bike ride. I spent most of it hunched over my aerobars rather than sightseeing due to the wind. Here’s a picture of the storm clouds from FM2148 out near Redwater, Texas. …

Joe’s New Blog: Adventures in Bicycling, Texas Edition
by Joe Mayer
Didn’t really take a whole hell of a lot of convincing, since I like bicycling, but I just hadn’t done it since I got down here to Texas. Well, I certainly didn’t buy the high end model. It was a hundred-dollar mountain bike at Target, …

Daily Blog and News Roundup for May 23rd

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The news is thin and far between today. Not one blog posting or news item.

While I was doing my Saturday ride today I was riding in the opposite direction to a steady stream of riders from what I am guessing is the QLS fitness club in Atascocita. This was a nice change from not seeing anyone.

Another sight was the signs on FM2100 fro Crosby to Huffman put up for Memorial Day. This is a distance of about 7 miles. About every 50 feet there was the sign with a large yellow ribbon and the name of a person in the military with the words “Thanks” and “In your honor”. Quite fitting for the men and women who have served our country.

Sadly though I had a flat tire close to the end of my ride so I had to fix that and the delay was enough to position me to get rained on as I rode the .7 of a mile home. No rain anywhere else, just my street. This was a reason to rotate my tires when I got home. I had been thinking of doing this to even out the tread wear and tear.

Overall I ended up riding just over 49 miles today. My goal for May is 543 miles and I am at 453 after today’s ride. Barring any major problems I should exceed my goal, maybe even amke it to 600 miles for the month.

The biggest challenge of the day was installing a ceiling fan in my house. 12 foot ceilings and a bed in the way made the installation a 4 hour ordeal. Thank goodness this is over.