Fading vision doesn’t diminish cyclist’s passion

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from austin360.com (link to full article)

By Pamela LeBlanc
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, February 08, 2008

Ron Burzese’s retinas are failing. He walks with a white cane. But chances are he’d easily whip you in a bike race.

As the "stoker" in the rear seat of a tandem bike, Burzese, who has just 10 percent of his vision, chews up miles of pavement every week. He pedals with a partner, cruising around town for fun and exercise, and cranks it up in competition.

San Antonio TV Station WOAI – War of the Wheels: Bicyclists vs Drivers

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An interesting article and video report on how bicyclists and cars share and not share the roads around San Antonio.

"News 4 gets complaints all the time from drivers just sick of having to work around hoards of bicyclists taking over the streets and highways. We also hear from bicyclists scared for their lives because of impatient drivers. As News 4’s Ryan O’Donnell explains, it is an all-out war on wheels."

Link to the article

 

 

Canadian outfit buys Cannondale

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While this not directly Texas bicycle news many of us have ridden Cannondale bikes.

Article from Velonews.com

Dorel Industries has bought Cannondale Bicycle Corporation, the corporation announced Monday.

Dorel, headquartered in Montréal, owns Pacific Cycle, the parent company of Schwinn, GT and Mongoose. The purchase is reported as an all-cash transaction valued between $190 million and $200 million.

The Bethel, Connecticut-based Cannondale, which also holds Sugoi Performance Apparel Company, a clothing brand, was previously held by Pegasus Capital Advisors, which purchased the company in 2003.

The Roll Aid Coast to the Coast

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David Hill is organizing a 6-8 man, 7-day loaded tour traveling 450-500 miles from Naval Air Station Fort Worth, past Fort Hood, to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, then to Beeville and Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. We expect to absorb more riders along the route. We will hook up with the Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride in San Antonio and accompany them on their community rides to Corpus. 
 
We’re calling our tour the Roll Aid Coast to the Coast.
 
The idea is to raise awareness for the Woundedwarriorproject.org Soldier Ride, which was created to provide adaptive biking equipment to severely-wounded veterans. If you haven’t heard about it, or seen the images of young men and women with 1, 2 or even 3 prostheses riding bicycles in a group, you may not know how hard it would be NOT to do something to help.
 
Our ride leaves Fort Worth on March 9th, and gets to Corpus on the 16th.  Our route falls between US 281 and I-35 to San Antonio. 
I’d like to connect with other bike clubs and shops along the route to get route advice, or have some people ride along for as far as they like.  We would also really appreciate some advice on where we could camp or stay along the route.
 

We have a blog here, where people can offer advice or coordinate meeting up to join our tour http://soldierride.blogspot.com/

DF posters with more information can be downloaded here

Please also learn all about the Soldier Ride, here: https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/index.php/WWP-Soldier-Ride.html