By SHELTON GREEN, KVUE News
A church and a cycling community are coming together early Sunday morning for a memorial bike ride honoring a slain cyclist.
Michael Argall, 45, a cycling coach, Travis County Sheriff’s employee and Air Force veteran, was killed June 28th on U.S. 290 in Fredericksburg.
The woman who hit him told investigators the sun got in her eyes and she couldn’t see him.
Eric Jackson of BikeDFW writes in the Dallas Morning News online
Bicyclists are on the streets to get to work, go to the store, see a movie, get exercise, visit family and friends and for all of the same other reasons as motorists. In addition, gasoline is over $4 per gallon; the region risks federal sanctions if we don’t improve our polluted air; and mass transit is moving forward, and is a great thing, but is a long way from being able to serve a majority of the North Texas residents.
Link to the full article at the Dallas Morning News
By Michael D. Hernandez / El Paso Times
Tumbling headfirst over the handlebars was not how Eastsider Tyler Cope pictured the beginning of his trek across the country, but there he was June 2, sprawled out on a California highway, scraped up and his cycling helmet cracked but intact.”Day 1 was probably the hardest part,” Cope, 21, said about cycling uphill for dozens of miles away from the ocean, then crashing. “It was just like a big mental game that I had so much riding against me. If it was day after day like that, I really didn’t know if I could do it but, after a little while, all that got me stronger.”
Surya and Giri Markala are pedaling more than 3,000 miles from Toronto to Mexico City in an effort to raise HIV/AIDS awareness, a project they call AIDS Bike Ride 2008.
The duo has already braved the northern part of the trip in little more than a month and reached Brownsville Tuesday night. They will cross the border into Matamoros this morning to continue south.
But Surya and Giri aren’t your likely cross-country cyclists.
Originally from southeast India, the brothers have no professional biking experience and are paying for the trip out-of-pocket.
Link to the full story at The Brownsville Herald