Texas Bicycling Action June 26th 2022

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Bringle Lake mountain bike trail system to offer obstacle course soon

by Mallory Wyatt | www.texarkanagazette.com

The Bringle Lake Mountain Bike Trail System continues to offer an intriguing recreational option to those in the biking, running and walking communities.

Started by a grassroots effort around 2013-2014, competing bikers collaborated with the Texarkana Texas Parks and Recreation Department to bring this unique attraction to the community.

"The city Parks and Rec Department let us build it, which is great. But financially, they weren’t involved with it. It was all done in volunteer dollars," said Terry Berridge, owner of Berridge Bikes. "People have come and gone over the years, as far as the management keeping it up. But it is 100% an organic, volunteer trail system."

The trail includes various loops labeled by color with varying levels of difficulty to ride.

It starts out at the green loop, which is two miles, easier to …

Cycling group near Parmer / Whitestone at 10am this morning from BikingATX

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A Discovery Bicycling In Kingwood In The Heat

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It’s a good thing I don’t mind biking when it’s hot because today’s bike ride was during the heat of the day. I began the ride at 1:21 PM and finished at 3:03 PM. With all of the sun and heat I rode the Kingwood streets taking advantage of the shade where possible. It wasn’t a long ride covering 19.89 miles but enough to put my week’s total miles up to 231.57 and June to 848.87 miles. This is the 5th week in a row of 200+ miles. And my Lynskey Helix bike now has 314 miles under its wheels.

I made a discovery today as I rode through a shopping center undergoing redevelopment I saw a new Trek bike shop. Watch the video to see what I found. The shopping center is in the NW corner of Kingwood Drive and W. Lake Houston Parkway. I went inside looking around and learned they’ve been open about 3 weeks. Yesterday I watched a short bike ride clip on Strava that said it was the Trek Kingwood ride and I wondered what they meant. Now I know. I asked if they were connected to Trek Atascocita and the man said they were from there. I think I recognized the man I talked to.

With all of the heat the pond looking cooling.

6-26-2022 Lynskey Helix Fosters Mill Pond-1
6-26-2022 Lynskey Helix Fosters Mill Pond-1

Weather conditions: start 95 (humidity 39%, dew point 66), mostly clear, wind 3 mph; finish 97 (humidity 32%, dew point 62), a few clouds, wind variable 4 mph. Glad for the shade since the wind wasn’t providing much cooling.

This week I biked each day averaging 33.02 miles per day. I rode the Cervelo Caledonia bike 4 days and the Lynskey Helix 3 days. The longest ride was Wednesday on the Spring Creek Greenway. So far in June I’ve biked every day except for June 13th averaging 33.95 miles per ride.

6-26-2022 Week Ended Bike Rides Summary
6-26-2022 Week Ended Bike Rides Summary

Looking at the year to date bike rides on Kingwood streets I rode 12 times. The distances range from 15.88 miles to 21.79 miles. Today was about the average distance. The last 5 rides have been on my Lynskey Helix.

6-26-2022 YTD Bike Rides Kingwood Streets
6-26-2022 YTD Bike Rides Kingwood Streets
6-26-2022 Strava Kingwood Streets Data Summary
6-26-2022 Strava Kingwood Streets Data Summary

Texas Bicycling News June 25th 2022

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Going Green: 80-year-old Abilenian makes good on promise to cycle 80 miles

Greg Jaklewicz | www.reporternews.com

Bo Green said he was going to celebrate Saturday afternoon.

Not his 80-mile bike ride but the birthday for former Abilene Christian University administrator and state representative Bob Hunter’s 94th birthday.

Hunter should’ve celebrated Saturday morning with Green, who, at age 80, rode 80 miles. Because he could. ,,,

SB250 Day 2

Frank Cano | strava.com

DAMMIT!!!!!! A 38TH SANORA!!!! HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN!?!?!?! HE MUST BE WIPED OUT OF EXISTENCE AT ALL COST!!! HELL HAVE NO FURY LIKE A POSSESSED PERSISTENT SANORA!!!! WE ARE ETERNALLY SCREWED!!! UUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!

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MTCCSA/SACA Kora Kora Ride

Mark Noblitt MTCCSA | strava.com

No, it wasn’t my "usual" Saturday century. Yes, I drove to the ride. Yes, I just finished a bout with COVID. No, it wasn’t a fast ride. Yes, I had fun. Mission: Accomplished!

ADCC TREK SATURDAY

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Now the Blitz is on and here come Wells in the back stretch

Brent Wells | strava.com

Even though there was a “Tour de Boerne”today, I decided to do this ride with Blitz since I ride those other roads nearly every time I go out. Today’s ride was incredibly hard as usual with Daniel, Casey, and Mike Karas leading the way. As always, I am very thankful to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for allowing me to return to this sport

Tour de Boerne 2022

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Maybe A Way Through FM1960 Road Work, Back Before It Got Hot

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No distractions to keep me from starting today’s bike ride before 8 AM. I rode my Cervelo Caledonia onto the street, pressed the start button on the Bolt computer at 7:54 AM and off we went riding my “Atascocita – Huffman – Walden” route. With the early start (for me at least) I finished at 10: 31 AM before it had time to get really hot. It’ll do that later in the afternoon. I like the early start on Saturday so that I can see other cyclists. I saw several today (some are in the video) but I wonder if the road construction on FM 1960 at Atascocita Shores has caused some to ride someplace else. It enters my thoughts and I don’t ride through the work zone as often. I did see a way to avoid riding in the main west bound lanes approaching Atascocita Shores. There is space between the barriers for both directions that goes into the left turn lane at the stop light. I’ll try that the next ride.

I accomplished two goals with the 34.12 miles on today’s bike ride: a 211 mile week and 828 miles for the month, surpassing my 800 mile goal. This was the 11th ride on this route in 2022. Ten of them have been on my Cervelo Caledonia bike. Tomorrow’s bike ride will add some miles to both of those goals. To add a little distance to the ride circling Town Center Park which I don’t usually do resulted in a PR on NASCAR (51s) according to Strava. But I lost the local legend on another segment that I don’t ride very often in Kings Forest.

6-25-2022 YTD Bike Rides Atascocita - Huffman - Walden
6-25-2022 YTD Bike Rides Atascocita – Huffman – Walden

Thankfully the humidity dropped as the ride progressed and the dew point held steady helping me not feel too hot. The wind was from the SW at 8 mph making the ride back across Lake Houston harder that riding east. Weather conditions: start 76 (humidity 97%, dew point 75), partly cloudy, wind N 0 mph; finish 88 (humidity 61%, dew point 73), mostly cloudy, wind SW 8 mph.

I only made 15 RD shifts according to the AXS.SRAM.com ride report. I rode 1:46:09 using the 35×13 gear (24.3 miles). Total moving time was 2:34:07.

6-25-2022 Strava Data Summary Atascocita - Huffman - Walden
6-25-2022 Strava Data Summary Atascocita – Huffman – Walden