Oh no, not again! My plan to start before 11 AM and ride my Atascocita – Balmoral – W Lake Houston Pkwy – Walden route got interrupted by a flat rear tire on my Canyon Endurace CF 7 bike. As I walked by and squeezed the rear tire it was flat. At least the flat happened at home and not on the road like yesterday. Inspecting the tire I found a tiny piece of wire sticking out opposite the valve. Easier than yesterday’s flat on my Cervelo Caledonia. Pulling the TPU out of the rear tire finding the hole wasn’t easy. It took pumping the tube up and passing the tube near my lips to feel a very small stream of air coming out. I marked the spot with a pen after using sandpaper on the area and placed an adhesive patch over it. With the tube back in the tire I got ready to ride giving the patch time to leak if I missed the hole. Ready to roll about 15 minutes later the tire was rock solid.
5-10-2024 Canyon Endurace Rear Tire Flat Culprit-25-10-2024 Canyon Endurace Rear Tire Flat Culprit-3 Paper is 1″ square
Confident the patch would hold i rode away at 11:17 AM heading south. The weather changed from yesterday’s haze and humidity when a front moved through shifting the wind to the NNE. This helped biking south but the return trip required hard pedaling to finish at 2:24 PM. I stopped at the Blue Lagoon in Balmoral for these photos.
I rode 38.19 miles, the most of all the previous 5 previous times since the railroad overpass opened last April. I am now ahead of the 25 miles per day pace to reach May’s goal by 7.7 miles (257.7 versus 250 miles). The week crossed 200 miles with 203.58. Two Strava top results: PR on Timber Forest Crosses 1960 (6:53) and PR on Mont Chemin de Fer (2:03).
5-10-2024 SportTracks Ride History Atascocita-Balmoral-W Lake Houston Pkwy-Walden
5-10-2024 Strava Ride Summary Atascocita-Balmoral-W Lake Houston Pkwy-Walden
WHAT: Cyclists of all levels from across the country will gather in Floresville, Texas for the third annual Gear Up Against Kids Cancer, a bike ride created to bring community awareness to the more than 15,000 children in the United States annually diagnosed with cancer.
The bike ride raises much-needed funds to help researchers develop more effective, less toxic treatments for childhood cancer.
All proceeds from the event stay local and directly support Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, which is part of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), and its mission to translate today’s research discoveries into tomorrow’s treatments. …
AUSTIN (KXAN) — At intersections and roadways across Austin are white bikes—memorials honoring the memory of cyclists killed in traffic crashes. It’s part of the Austin Ghost Bike Project’s ongoing mission to raise public awareness about the number of cyclists killed while the organization advocates for improved safety infrastructure for bikers.
“Our goal, really, is to draw attention to and to start to prevent so many needless deaths, accidents, crashes in our city,” said Rhodney Williams with Austin Ghost Bike Project. …
AND THEY’RE OFF! Bike to School Day in South Austin heading for Cowan Elementary. pic.twitter.com/efEZgeMNhv
“Our goal, really, is to draw attention to and to start to prevent so many needless deaths, accidents, crashes in our city,” said Rhodney Williams with Austin Ghost Bike Project.https://t.co/BE6hH7QZbB
#BikeMonth rolls on this Saturday with 2? final rides of the Frisco Tour de Four. Join fellow cyclists for one or both! ?NE Ride: Northeast Community Park at 10 a.m. ?SW Ride: B.F. Phillips Community Park at 1 p.m. Get all the details in the post below ? from @PlayFriscohttps://t.co/1srSLaalew
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A new event concept in Texas hopes to marry the best of both worlds.
At this point, Kevin Lee has a pretty good 30,000 foot view of gravel.
The Texas race promoter has been putting on events through his company the Spinistry for nearly 15 years. One of those events, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, draws a strong crowd of cyclists every January.
2025 will mark the 15th edition of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but Lee has something new in the works for the race weekend next year. He’s curious if the concept might address what he sees as a potential impasse in gravel racing — the tension between the pointy end and the people.
“I think we’re kinda at an important phase in where gravel is going in the future,” Lee said. …
The video clip I shouldn’t have stopped to take cost me a flat tire. I was riding on a modified Atascocita – Walden – Huffman route on today’s bike ride. I changed a bunch of streets in Kingwood on the way to Atascocita. On the way back I stopped on Atascocita Shores Drive to take a video clip of a Lake Houston inlet. When I tried to resume the ride the front tire on my Cervelo Caledonia was flat. Turning the tire to look for the cause didn’t help so I walked to Rebawood Drive to find a place away from the traffic on Atascocita Shores Drive. A shady spot at a storm drain under a tree was good. As I was walking there a man on a bicycle rode by and asked how far I still had to go. I told him Kingwood and that I was looking for a quiet place to fix the flat. Later a lady in a green car stopped and asked if I was okay and needed anything. I told her I was good and needed the rain to stay away until I got home.
Removing the TPU tube from the tire I pumped it up to find the leak but it wasn’t obvious. I ran my finger around the inside of the tire searching for the culprit but found nothing. Next I looked at the tire sidewall and found a cut about 10″ from the valve. Returning to the tube I saw a small cut. I guess I ran into something sharp when I stopped to take the video. I rough up the tube, applied an adhesive patch, held it tightly on the tube for a couple of minutes, it looked good. I aired the tube up to check my work and all looked good. Stuffing the tube back in the tire, getting the tire bead back on the rim I pumped up the tire. It held firm and put the wheel back in the fork. While I worked on the flat I heard thunder in the distance and some rain drops hit me and the ground but no more. Dodged that problem. This was the tube I installed on April 29th to fix another flat. Not long enough between flats!!
5-9-2024 Cervelo Caledonia Front Tire Flat 28 miles-15-9-2024 Cervelo Caledonia Front Tire Flat 28 miles-2
Prior to the flat the bike ride was going well. The wind was light but the humidity was high. The temperature hung around 84 degrees. I started at 10:59 AM and after the flat tire delay finished at 2:28 PM biking 36.43 miles which is more than this route averages. Changing the streets up made the difference. By the 9th day of the month I should be at 225 miles. Today’s bike ride brought me to 219 miles, 6 short of the 25 miles per day pace needed to reach my 749 mile goal.
After leaving Walden headed back to FM1960 I stopped at Waterhaven and took these photos.
AUSTIN, Texas — May is Bike Month in Austin, and Wednesday specifically is Bike to School Day.
Rhonda Bolick with the City of Austin’s Safe Routes to School program said they had lessons throughout the school year to teach students how to safely bike or walk to school.
“We’re encouraging kids all over Austin to walk or bike to school today,” Bolick said. …
The Midwestern State University Cycling team wrapped up its 2023-24 season in style last weekend, with freshman Molly Hayes winning the national champion in the time trial at the USA Cycling National Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hayes finished the time trial in 39.30 to win the women’s varsity event. She also fared well in the criterium, finishing 21st, and she placed 33rd in the road race.
MSU Cycling Director Pablo Cruz Trochez was impressed with how Hayes handled the spotlight and also the mountainous terrain in New Mexico.
“Coming in as a freshman, and just 18, Molly performed incredibly well at her …
When the lane designations on Gladys Avenue recently were re-striped, the thoroughfare was left with what one reader described as “road diet” – a small space on the right side not wide enough to act as a turning lane or parking space and of seeming little utility. Why was that area not designated as a bike lane, she asked?
Beaumont Public Works Director Bart Bartkowiak weighed in on the question.
Some Newton Rayzor Elementary School students wore wings to meet the weekly “bike bus” bright and early on Wednesday morning.
All the students wore helmets, some of them in superhero colors. And Stephanie Brooks, the bike bus coordinator, had her electric bike loaded with snacks and a bubble machine.
This marks the second year the school’s students have made the weekly ride, and they have some special guests. It’s National Bike and Roll to School Day, and Denton ISD Superintendent Jamie Wilson is in the parking lot of the Village Church, tires aired and helmet on.
Over 50 wounded veterans and supporters with the 2024 Project Hero Ride 2 Recovery made a pit stop at the Central Texas Veterans Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon.
Covering more than 370 miles this year by bicycle, Project Hero’s 15th annual ride started in San Antonio and will finish in Arlington. As a part of the ride, participants took a break to honor their fallen comrades with a wreath-laying ceremony Wednesday before heading to their hotel for the night.
Retired Sgt. 1st Class William Hogue served in the Army as a medic for almost 27 years and has been part of Project Hero since 2011.
“I was first deployed in Hawaii with the Third ID. I’m in the …
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Rise & Ride: Bike to Work Day Starting at Mundy Park on May 17th at 7:30 am, we'll pedal our way to San Jacinto Plaza on a ride through historic downtown El Paso. Sign up now on Google Forms: https://t.co/8I30y7BZL5pic.twitter.com/b8DHeu0KrP
Mon June 10, 2024 Cedar Hill, TX
First of five cycling events at this year’s Texas Police Games hosted by the City of DeSoto, Texas for 2024. This event only, you are required to be or have been assigned as a bike patrol officer at least once during your career. This is a timed police bike obstacle course event. Full information on the website, at the Facebook Group page, or contact me at the contact information listed on the website cycling events web pages. Rubber Side Down, Lance
Tue June 11, 2024 Cedar Hill, TX
Second of five cycling events at this year’s Texas Police Games hosted by the City of DeSoto, Texas for 2024. This is an 8 to 10 mile time trial. Full information on the website, at the Facebook Group page, https://www.facebook.com/groups/302076915505661 , or contact me at the contact information listed on the website cycling events web pages. Rubber Side Down, Lance
Wed June 12, 2024 Cedar Hill, TX
Third of five cycling events at this year’s Texas Police Games hosted by the City of DeSoto, Texas for 2024. This is a 26 to 36 mile road race. Full information on the website, at the Facebook Group page, https://www.facebook.com/groups/302076915505661 , or contact me at the contact information listed on the website cycling events web pages. Rubber Side Down, Lance
Thu June 13, 2024 Dallas, TX
Fourth of five cycling events at this year’s Texas Police Games hosted by the City of DeSoto, Texas for 2024. This is a 10 to 12 mile mountain bike race. Full information on the website, at the Facebook Group page, https://www.facebook.com/groups/302076915505661 , or contact me at the contact information listed on the website cycling events web pages. Rubber Side Down, Lance
Fri June 14, 2024 Maypearl, TX
Last of five cycling events at this year’s Texas Police Games hosted by the City of DeSoto, Texas for 2024. This is a 28 mile gravel bike race. Full information on the website, at the Facebook Group page, https://www.facebook.com/groups/302076915505661 , or contact me at the contact information listed on the website cycling events web pages. Rubber Side Down, Lance
The makeup for the two newest Richardson commissions was confirmed by Richardson City Council.
Members of the bicycle pedestrian advisory committee as well as community inclusion and engagement commission were appointed during the May 6 council meeting.
The context
Council previously approved the creation of the community inclusion and engagement commission last November and elevated the status of bicycle pedestrian advisory committee from a subcommittee of the parks and recreation commission last December. Individuals appointed to each commission will serve two-year terms.
The community inclusion and engagement commission will provide an annual report to council and will serve as an advisory body to council on diversity, equity and inclusion issues. The bicycle pedestrian advisory committee will help advise city staff on refining the city’s complete streets plan. …
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