Real Ale Ride – Blanco, TX

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On May 30, 2009, Real Ale Ride will return to Blanco. After the success of last year’s ride, Bicycle Sport Shop was able to donate $3000 to the local library. “We had over 1300 participants in 2008 and we expect to have 2000 this year,” says Chris Carter, Marketing Manager at Bicycle Sport Shop. “Our success in 2008 was due to the enormous amount of support we received from the town of Blanco. I recall hearing a story about a little girl that offered to hold a rider’s bike while they refilled their water bottle at Rest Stop 1. You do not see that everywhere.”

For more information about the Real Ale Ride and how you can be a part of it, please contact Erin Truslow with Red Licorice Events at erin@redlicoriceevents.com or call 512-517-8118.

from the Blanco County News

Austin Bike Blog Profiles Brad Cason of KirkLee Bicycles

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Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series of articles we are doing to profile Texas handbuilt framebuilders.

Life is good right now at KirkLee. In just over 12 months, framebuilder Brad Cason has taken a  framebuilding business that was just an idea and generated a tremendous amount of buzz as an up and coming custom carbon brand to watch. KirkLee has been reviewed in the Nov/Dec 08 issue of Road, drew some notice at Interbike, was recommended by Velonews Tech writer (and framebuilder) Leonard Zinn, and is being found under the body of U.S. Road Champion Tyler Hamilton as his bike of choice when sponsors don’t force him to ride another bike.

Link to the full profile at Austin Bike Blog.

Peddlin’ Texas, David’s Blog on Training for the MS150

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David is training for the MS150 and blogging about his progress. A short post from January 28th:

“Have been doing 10 miles each morning this week on the static bike. It takes me about 40 mins to warm up hit the target at mid resistance and coold down. If I drop the resistance back I can pedal at speeds up to 19 mph on the bike but it doesn’t feel as realistic. Still its a good training aid while the weather is cold, and easy to do with time constraints…..”

Link to David at Peddlin’ Texas.

Texas Bicycle Shops from MountainZone.com

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I ran across this list of bicycle shops by city at Mountainzone.com. This list it is not complete since the Bike Werks in Kingwood does not show up and the ones listed in Humble are no longer in business.