Texas Biking Action June 26th 2021

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Circling—or cycling—the track at F1’s famous Circuit of the Americas

Nathan Mattise | arstechnica.com

Be warned: Calves needed to climb all 133 feet of Turn 1 if you’re using a road bike.

League City takes part in Juneteenth bike ride along proposed Emancipation Trail

By Colleen Ferguson | communityimpact.com

SB250 police escort into San Antonio

Kelly N | www.strava.com

Century #17 2021

Mark Noblitt MTCCSA | www.strava.com

These young folk worked hard trying to kill me this morning, y’all.

Summer of Centuries 4.0

Jose 🇻🇮Gonsalves-Barreiro 🇻🇮 | www.strava.com

Robert’s 1st Century Ride

Noe Espinosa🇺🇸🇵🇭(RCC) | www.strava.com

Paused TdF to See Local Bikers

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Saturday morning bike rides with the prospect of seeing other bikers motivate me to get started earlier than on weekdays. Today was no exception with wheels down on my Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike at 8:26 AM. The route that has proven to pass other bikers is my “Atascocita – FM 2100 – Walden” one.

Following my 2021 route start as I ride out of Kingwood, the Kings River and W. Lake Houston Parkway intersection came at just over 9 miles into the bike ride. It didn’t take long after that to start seeing other bikers. I believe they are heading home having started much earlier than me. You can see many of those bikers in the video clips from today’s bike ride.

I biked 31.31 miles today pushing the week’s total to 221.91 miles and June to 851.44 miles. As I mentioned yesterday 2021 YTD miles (4693) now trails 2020 by 46 miles, up from yesterday due to a longer ride last year on this date. Tomorrow (Sunday) will be a rest day since I biked each day this week so far. I averaged 36.98 miles per ride this week.

6-26-2021 Week Bike Rides Summary
6-26-2021 Week Bike Rides Summary

With the 8:26 AM start the weather had not heated up yet but humidity and dew point were high. By the 10:51 AM finish the temperature went up and humidity and dew point dropped some.

  • 6-26-2021 IAH Weather Bike Ride Start
    6-26-2021 IAH Weather Bike Ride Start
  • 6-26-2021 IAH Weather Bike Ride Finish
    6-26-2021 IAH Weather Bike Ride Finish

The Texas sun is tough on red biking gloves. A pair of Pearl Izumi red gloves I’ve been wearing for several months faded to pink. Yesterday I received a new pair from competitive Cyclist and put them to work on today’s bike ride. I bought XL size instead of L to make getting them off easier. The mesh back and gel pads make them comfortable.

6-26-2021 New Gloves Pearl Izumi
6-26-2021 New Gloves Pearl Izumi
Summary of all of the bike rides on today's route YTD in 2021
YTD Summary of Bike Rides on Today’s Route

Of the 11 rides on today’s route, this was the earliest by 6 minutes, beating 6/19/2021.

While I was out biking Strava sent me an email telling me I lost the local legend on the “Old HEB Alley” segment.

6-26-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary
6-26-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary

Texas Biking News June 25th 2021

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The 50-mile trail around Dallas: When White Rock to Trinity Forest will open and why that matters

By Sharon Grigsby | www.dallasnews.com

The 7.5 mile Spine Trail segment will mean that, for the first time, residents south of Interstate 30 “won’t have to use a car to get out of our neighborhoods.”

Walk a few yards down the rough dirt path alongside Military Parkway’s E-Z Tires — a part of southeast Dallas where even at 9 a.m. it’s easier to find a quart of whiskey than a decent tomato.

Look beyond the graveyards of abandoned tires and burned-out vehicles, of forlorn Christmas tinsel and children’s books. Beyond the dozen or more encampments of people living off the grid in tents and RVs.

In front of you unfolds a diamonds in the rough, a breathtaking, if mostly inaccessible, …

GROUP RIDE – Pop A (subtitles) – 6/24/2021 4K HD

Honest Tree | www.youtube.com

Hello people of the internet, this is a video documenting a group ride called Pop A that starts in Richardson, TX on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We try to ride fast, and we try not to crash. We were one for two today (not in video). Rearview video might be making a comeback. We shall see. But none in this video. Pretty hot today.

New shared use path to open on east side of Longhorn Dam bridge

www.austintexas.gov

AUSTIN, Texas – As work continues on interim safety and mobility improvements to South Pleasant Valley Road over the Longhorn Dam bridge, the construction work zone will shift from the east side of the bridge to the west side during the early hours of Sunday, June 27. Austin Transportation will establish a temporary new temporary trail detour on Monday, June 28.

The new detour will route people walking and biking across the lake to the newly built shared-use pathway on the east side of the bridge using two newly constructed Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon signals. The detour will remain in place while the west side of the bridge is closed for construction. Construction will continue to build out another shared-use pathway on the west side of the bridge. Future work will include final markings and signal enhancements to complete the project. …

WATCH: Scary Car vs. Bicycle Crash in West San Angelo

By Yantis Green | sanangelolive.com

SAN ANGELO, TX – San Angelo Police were dispatched Friday afternoon to a vehicle vs. pedestrian crash in west San Angelo.

According to the investigating officer at the scene, a young girl was on a bicycle stoped at the stopping on Chestnut St. heading east. The youngster didn’t see a gray Toyota Camry southbound on Garfield and rode out in front of the car.

Watch video from the scene below: …

‘Mayor Of Southtown’ Honored For His 80th Birthday, Longtime Support Of San Antonio Artists

By Jack Morgan | www.tpr.org

There’s a San Antonian who is the fictitious mayor of a fictitious town, but who now has a very real art gallery opening, and all in his honor.

He’s bike-riding, bow-tie-wearing Mike Casey and is often seen in Southtown where he lives.

He wasn’t available to speak to TPR, but he has friends who did. Friends like …

El Paso Critical Mass

Michelle â“‹ Mishka | www.strava.com

Texas Biking from Twitter

New Events Added to Texbiker.net Calendar

June Goal Reached, Now Biking to Reach June 2020 Total

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Started the bike ride at 10:05 AM, about an hour earlier than yesterday. I chose my “New Caney – Roman Forest Blvd – Oakhurst” route not realizing this would only be the 3rd time biking it in 2021. I altered the route slightly when I arrived at FM 1314 headed north. Usually I continue on the frontage road but today I went right on FM 1314 to Loop 494 and turned left. Some of this is in the video.

6-25-2021 YTD Bike Rides Summary Today's Route
6-25-2021 YTD Bike Rides Summary Today’s Route

The distance was longer than I guessed coming in at 33.22 miles. Those miles put me over my 800 mile goal for June at 820.13 miles. My next goal is to repeat June 2020 of 902.84 miles. I’m within 10 miles of hitting 200+ miles this week. I should take care of that tomorrow. Also the gap between 2021 YTD and 2020 YTD narrowed to 34 miles. June 24th and 25th 2020 I didn’t bike while I did this year. The gap will widen after tomorrow because last year I rode 44.1 miles on June 26th and I plan on biking 31 miles tomorrow.

Weather Summary 6/25/2021

It heated up during the bike ride. The humidity was just below the temperature at the start time but did go down by the time I finished at 12:42 PM.

6-25-2021 Golden Cheetah Bike Ride Overview
6-25-2021 Golden Cheetah Bike Ride Overview