Daily Blog and News Roundup April 3rd

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The Fire Ant Gazette – A Midland, Texas Blog | “”Breaking Away …
by Eric
Cycling technology has changed dramatically during intervening years, but at its core, the act of riding a bicycle should still be about adventure and making memories. That’s something that transcends technology. …

Riding for life
by Killeen Daily Herald
Wounded warriors from across the country, many of them amputees, began a portion of the Texas Road 2 Recovery bicycle tour Thursday morning at Fort Hood. They were joined by three Vietnam veterans and riders from the Army Cycling Team. …

Bike for Alzheimer’s Research: Krashing to Kerrville
by Nancy Kelley
Nancy Kelley: I am bicycling across the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Alambama, Mississippi, and Florida with a host of wonderful women through Womantours, a company specializing in bicycle tours for women. … At that point Michelle decided that all those not presently on the way to Kerrville from Medina would ride the van. Very wise decision. We dropped off our head injury rider at the hospital for a checkup, visited the local bike shop, …

Meanderings on Two Wheels
by Macrobe
Yes, it took that long to ride down to Terlingua. But then, we were already on Terlingua time. After packing the bikes, we headed to breakfast at La Trattoria in Alpine. I had an omelet with a blackberry pancake. … In front of Voni and Paul’s house was a beautiful specimen in leaf and flower. The temptation of photographing Voni’s red bike behind the ocotillo was too tempting. Soon it was time to gear up and ride south to Terlingua. …

Blazing a trail: Work under way on addition to trails at Kit …
by Lufkin Daily News – Lufkin,TX,USA
Funding for the project, which includes a $60000 grant from the Texas Parks and … When complete, the trail will meet International Mountain Bicycling …

Shimano launch new Ultegra groupset, April 2, 2009
Second-from-top road gruppo now 150g lighter
By James Costley-White
Shimano have finally lifted the veil of secrecy on their new Ultegra road groupset. Slotting in second-from-top in the Shimano hierarchy, just below Dura-Ace, the new kit replaces the old Ultegra and Ultegra SL ranges, and weighs in at 151g lighter than the former and 107g lighter than the latter. …

Daily Blog and News Roundup April 2nd

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Cannondale Plans To Shift Manufacturing from Bedford, PA to Taiwan
from Bicycle.net | Attitude is Everything by editor
Cycling Sports Group (formerly the Cannondale Sports Group) plans to consolidate all North American product development, marketing and business management functions for the four cycling brands Cannondale, Schwinn, GT and Mongoose to Bethel, CT, said Dorel Industries in a press release this week. Bike frame manufacturing will shift from the Bedford, PA location to the new Taichung, Taiwan CSG location. Nearly 200 of the current 300 employees will be cut from the Bedford location by 2010 as a result of this shift. …

Corpus Christi, TX | KRISTV.COM |Austin unveils bicycle sharing …
by KRISTV.com
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A new going green project in Austin involves people power and balance. The city on Thursday unveiled a bicycle-sharing program for municipal workers who need to travel short distances for meetings or other business. …

A new kind of charity bicycle ride – cycling 100 miles indoors …
by Ben
A new kind of charity bicycle ride – cycling 100 miles indoors! April 2, 2009 · No Comments · indoor-cycling · Fat Cyclist is organizing a very interesting charity ride – a 100 mile ride to nowhere. That’s right. This ride will raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, but instead of …

Hot News: 2009 Texas Custom (Handmade) Bicycle Show is gonna be in …
by Jason
The 2009 Texas Custom (Handmade) Bicycle Show is scheduled for October 24-25 in. Austin, TX to coincide with the Livestrong weekend… …As always, the show will be no charge to the public… …Our goal is to make this second Texas …

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 4/2- 4/8/09 | Austin On Two …
by elliott
Come and cheer even if you don’t plan to race so you can start your weekend right. Saturday, April 4. 10th Annual Pedal Power Wildflower Ride 8 AM, Lyndon B. Johnson State Park, Stonewall, TX Routes of 12, 23, 36 and 60 miles. …

Should I buy a fixed gear bike?
by Carles
… sometimes ’subcultures’ can develop out of people ‘being unreasonable.’ I think with only 1 gear, u have to do more work in order to ride ur bike fast. Might be some sort of new age weight loss gimmick, kinda like what ‘large people’ will do in order to shed some calories. Not sure how useful. One time I saw a group of fixed-gear alts riding around Austin, Texas with Lance Armstrong. Made me wonder if Lance is using fixed gear technology to win the Tour De France. …

Charley and Kamala in Tandem: Oil Patch
by madhatter
So, unlike what we’re finding in so many of these small West Texas towns, there’s not a whole lot of empty buildings and storefronts. House prices have gone up and there is activity on the streets. The neighborhoods are generally middle class with lawns trimmed, flowers in the gardens, … Where was the picture above taken? The picture in our title bar was taken on in the Gila Mountains on our 2005 summer bicycle tour. … What color socks do you pack for a tour? …

Durango Texas: Seeing the Signs in the Tandy Hills
by Durango
I have seen a kid on a mountain bike. I remember asking him why? Due to the Tandy Trails not really being conducive to mountain biking. He told me he didn’t realize the trails were so rough. I hope this wind isn’t blowing in anything …

Daily Blog and News Roundup April 1st

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I will try to filter out the April Fool’s items.

Cycling: Pair cycling for health, cause
from HoustonChronicle.com — Cycling
Anna Rocha and Wayne Dolezal are riding in the BP MS 150, April 18-19, raising funds to help fight Multiple Sclerosis, just like several other thousand cyclists. While they are at it, they are also working on improving their own physical condition by losing weight. Both riders weighed 270 pounds at the start of training for the ride. …

Nearly Famous Fred – Texas Cyclist: I do not like surprises
by Nearly Famous Fred
Just wide enough for a bicycle tire to slip into and cause all sorts of mayhem and destruction as 4000 riders go by. This was a little more serious than the hole and steel plate that we encountered earlier in the ride. …

Tall Lady on a Bike: Day 25, March 30: Armistad to Bracketville, TX
by Carol Moehrke
A short ride today, a recovery ride of sorts. The first 23 miles featured smooth pavement, often taken for granted before crossing into Texas, and for which I now have great appreciation. The final 20 miles was jarringly Texas normal. …

Why buy a bike from out of town? What a difference a day makes!
by kgsbikes
The first is to travel to San Antonio and enjoy not only our hospitality, but experience the creation of a bicycle designed for you by one of the world’s best. The second is to be lucky enough to live in Texas, where I travel to Austin, …

Hiker Hell: Mountain Biker Caught in Crack
by B-Real
What happened: A man was rescued after being trapped in between a couple of rocks while riding his mountain bike alone in the hills of Texas. The man suffered a knee injury when he somehow became stuck between some rocks. …

Dr. Mirkin: Prolong life with exercise after age 50

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Since I fall in this category I am very interested in this subject. An excerpt from Dr. Mirkin’s latest post:

“Men who start or increase their exercise programs after age fifty live longer than those who remain at their present activity levels, according to a study in the British Medical Journal (March 2009). More than 2200 men were checked at ages 50, 60, 70, 77 and 82 years. The greater the increase in exercise duration over that span, the longer their lives were extended. The reduction in early death from increasing exercise was the same as for men who stopped smoking.”

Link to Dr. Mirkin’s full post.