Daily Blog and News Roundup for April 20th

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Texas cycling and sailing with Dennis: Copper Breaks rides
by Dennis and Michele Starkey
Texas cycling and sailing with Dennis. Our Cycling and Sailing journal, as well as other outdoor and simple living topics. Monday, April 20, 2009. Copper Breaks rides. The bicycle rally our local bike club puts on was a success. …

The Dawn Patrol
by Mrs Greyhawk
A Texas bicycle ride helps wounded veterans rehabilitate and reconnect. Fleming had been planning to make the journey on a hand-cycle, a vehicle that looks like the product of a one-night stand between a recumbent bike–the kind favored …

TOYOTA / CYCLING TEAM PRESENTED BY GCCA: Ivan Mukasa/James Bailey …
by John Trujillo
TOYOTA / Cycling Team presented by Gulf Coast Cycling Association is an elite cycling team based in Texas. Among the team’s many goals, one of which is to compete in criteriums throughout the United States. Criteriums or “crits” are the …

BP MS150 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
by Eric Swist
Texas flags decorate the roadway as cyclists make their way into Bastrop, TX through Texas Highway 71 on Sunday, April, 19, 2009 during the second day of the BP MS150 charity bike tour from La Grange, TX to Austin, TX. The ride raises …

MS 150 Day Two: Success! « Bike Noob
by rainycamp
They could take the “Lunch Express” route, which had them ride the shoulder of Texas 71, a four-lane divided highway, or they could take the “Challenge” route, which rode less-traveled farm-to-market roads, and wound through two state …

Tiggs In Texas
by Tiggs
I guess I am just not cut out to do that type of endurance cycling. After we finished, we went to eat, but my stomach had been giving me issues all day and after I ate a few bites I got extremely sick to my stomach. …

JF2R: Not your everyday training ride
by Justin
Who is this cat? My Photo. Justin: Edinburg, Texas, United States: I’m settling into this cycling thing quite nicely…..not a bad gig at all. …

Changing styles of riding is fundamental fun | Road Rash
by Jason Whaley
Exploring Central Texas. And beyond., I got back on the carbon road bike for the first time in a couple of months yesterday. Incredible how fast it felt. I have been commuting on a single-speed Salsa, and while it provides a smooth ride, speed is. … You have probably read my rants about all of the great things cycling does for health and the environment. But they’re all true. And if you want to try different forms of cycling (which can require different bikes) to stay …

Daily Blog and News Roundup for April 19th

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Adam Baldwin: Ride 2 Recovery: An Amazing Journey
by Adam Baldwin
That beautiful moment was but one of countless expressions of dignity and courage that I witnessed during my participation in this year’s Ride 2 Recovery “Don’t Mess With Texas Challenge” — a 350 mile bicycle ride from Brooke Army …

Thousands cycle in MS 150 bike tour
by KXAN-TV – Austin,TX,USA
I’ll ride until I’m too old to do it.” The BP MS 150 is the largest non-profit fundraising event in Texas and the largest MS 150 in North America. …

Durango Texas: Sunday Bike Ride to the Fort Worth Stockyards with Beer
by Durango
And now I’m at the end of my bike ride, back in Gateway Park, looking at the #1 (according to Dog Fancy magazine) dog park in the U.S. We are so proud. But no city-wide celebration was held. There were a lot of people with a lot of …

Williamson pedals way through life
by Times Record News – Wichita Falls,TX,USA
He began to run, but discovered bicycling was better for his legs. … A daughter teaches in Killeen, Texas. They have three sons: one set to go to boot …

Keith Burgess-Jackson: Cycling
by Keith Burgess-Jackson
Cycling. There was supposed to be a bike rally in Granbury, Texas, yesterday, but it was canceled by the organizer a couple of weeks ago for lack of sponsorship. Undaunted, my friends (Phil, Randy, Bryce) and I decided to ride the …

GT Dirt Coalition Texas: Hill Country Challenge Omnium Win
by Jim Thomas
Comfort, Tx. Flat Rock Ranch. April 18 and 19, 2008. After several days of deluge, much needed rain for the countries #1 dehydrated state, the South Texas Off Road Mountain Bikers hosted the Hill Country Challenge Omnium. The attendance was a bit lower than anticipated due … The winner from the last race, Jason Grimes (OA) had family stuff, so wasn’t around; but Matt Schram (Austin Bikes) and Daryl Hilsenbeck (NRC) were. They finished 2 & 3 behind Jason up at Reimers. …

Daily Blog and News Roundup for April 18th

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MS 150 starts a day late because of rain
by Austin American-Statesman – Austin,TX,USA
The first day of the BP MS 150 was rained out Saturday, but participants were set to gather in La Grange this morning to bicycle the second and final leg of …

Dutch bikes the new status symbol of the recession? | Austin On …
by elliott
This new It object is the glossy black Dutch bicycle, its design unchanged since World War II. Increasingly imported to the United States and starting to be seen on the streets of New York (and in the windows of at least one clothing store) , it appears to have everything a good craze needs. That includes a hefty price tag — usually between $1000 and $2000 — and a ….

Prijatno!: Pedaling to Austin in the MS150!
by Dragana
… firmly seated on a bicycle pedaling, much of it uphill, about 175 miles between Houston and Austin. About 13000 riders and I don colorful team jerseys, special biking shoes and helmets, and leave the flatlands of coastal Texas. …

Artcolony: Sunflower ala Prima ~ V. Bridges Hoyt
by V. Bridges-Hoyt
It is still raining cats and dogs here in southeast Texas. This was the scheduled weekend for the MS150 bicycle ride from Houston to Austin, and it is the first year ever the event had to be postponed or cut short. …

a little bike ride this weekend « a UU Deist in Texas
by jules
This weekend is my bicycle ride from Houston to Austin. Admittedly I’m pretty friggin scared. I haven’t trained like I should have and the weather is gonna be really, really bad. Not a good combination to be riding on wet rode with 1/2″ …

San Marcos Record, San Marcos, TX – Big rains pound East and South …
by The San Marcos Record
Houston — The initial leg of an annual 150-mile charity bike ride involving more than 13000 cyclists raising money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society was washed out Saturday as heavy rains pounded Southeast Texas for a second …

Andy’s 2009 MS150 training blog: I spoke too soon –
by Andy Brickell
when I said that my next ride would start in my garage and end in LaGrange. Mother Nature intervened with heavy rainfall and high winds all through central/east Texas. LaGrange was pummelled, the camp site completely flooded and many of …

Lone Star Bicycle Route

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A few weeks ago I mentioned that I had found a map from 1976 for the Lone Star Bicycle Route. With the rain today I decide to complete the project. In the 33 years since it was published I thought there would be many changes in the route and/or the route designations. As I plotted the route on Bikely.com I was surprised that the original route is still intact except for just a couple of road numbers.

I plotted the route in two parts and have added the links to the Bike Ride Maps page. The page link is also at the top of the page.

From the back of the original map, “The Lone Star Bicycle Route was researched and developed by the Texas College Bicentennial Program and the Texas Cycling Committee. It provides a scenic, safe and reasonably direct route across a large sweep of southern and southwestern landscape. Following paved rural roads and hard-surfaced urban bikeways, the Lone Star Route is designed for cross-country, regional and local travel. For the cross-country bicyclist, the Route connects with major transcontinental routes on either end.

In 1976 bicyclists Brian McCarron and Phil Burden made a 9,000 mile tour of the United States. Their tour included the Austin-Amarillo portion of the Lone Star Bicycle Route. Brian’s evaluation: ‘Both Phil and I felt that it was well routed with excellent camping options. The farm roads we followed offered fantastic scenery with good road surface and virtually no traffic.’ Average riders should be encouraged by Brian and Phil’s tour. Neither rider had extensive bicycle touring experience prior to their trip.”

The back of the map cautions bicyclists between Amarillo and Austin to expect periodic heavy winds, steep hills and long distances between towns. Tire eating stickers may also be present.