Texas Biking News March 23rd 2021

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Houston BCycle serves 1M riders 6 months earlier than expected, thanks to the pandemic

By Katherine Whaley | abc13.com

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Whether you’re riding to work, getting some exercise or just enjoying being outdoors, more and more Houstonians have been biking during the pandemic, and Houston BCycle has the stats to prove it.

In 2020, BCycle saw an increase of 50,000 rides over the previous year.

The bike share says it reached its 1 millionth rider six months earlier than expected.

The numbers are …

Cross-Country Cyclist Coming Through LG This Week

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Seymour “Rif” Rifkind, President of the Pickleball Hall of Fame, is on an epic 3,000 bike ride across the U.S. to raise funds to furnish the new Pickleball Hall of Fame and Museum that is being built in Austin, and scheduled to open in October, 2021 at the Pickle Ranch. He started his 44-day ride in San Diego, CA on Feb. 28, and is scheduled to finish in St. Augustine, FL. on April 12. He should …

How to Ride in a Paceline 3202022

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Learn how to ride safely and comfortably in a paceline while cycling. Prologue: 00:00
Route Map: 00:40
Intense warmup to meet Team RR at Crust Pizza in the Woodlands, Texas: 02:10
Starting out with Team RR from Crust Pizza: 11:38
FM 2978 the ride begins in earnest on the open road: 22:24
Maintaining the effort on the overpass at 2854 into McCaleb Road: 38:55
Riding the climb on Rabon Chapel & Bridging back to the group on Southpine: 48:50
Red Top Road back to wrapping up the ride on Bays Chapel Road: 52:25

Bent Back on The Southern Tier

By Andy Lamb | www.crazyguyonabike.com

Day 0 – Staging in Del Rio: Putting the bent back together

Tuesday March 23, 2021 The bike box was in the lobby when I arrived at the hotel early this morning. I carried to my room before I went to sleep.

After I got up, started unboxing my bike. Only a couple of minor issues. Both tail lights came apart during the shipment. Some how I could only find three of the 4 AAA batteries in the box. Some how one AAA battery found it’s way out of the box. The box had 4 hand holds. Lesson learned: next time remove the tail lights and put them in a small box. The rear rack needed to be adjusted when …

Day -1 – Tucson to Del Rio train ride: 15 Hours on the Sunset Limited

Monday March 22, 2021 My bike was shipped last Wednesday, March 17th. It arrived at the hotel in Del Rio this morning before I got on the train. The Sunset Limited arrived an hour late in Tucson.

The train arrived 47 minutes late in Del Rio early 1:45 am Tuesday morning. The hotel picked me up at the train station and I was able to get to bed by 3 am. …

Dynamite Dash

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Wind Slowed, Temperature Up After The Rain – Bike Ride to FM 2100 and Back

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The wind slowed down and the temperature went up, a good combination. After watching the ITT at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya I got ready for my bike ride. Not as intense as the ITT but that’s okay. Starting at 11:48 AM I rolled away on my Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike riding what I call the “Atascocita – Walden – FM 2100” route. With the new starting streets in Kingwood I biked 33.66 miles. This si the 4th time biking this route in 2021. My week now totals 70.37 miles and March stands at 525.2 miles, 75 miles away from my goal. With 1,856 miles year to date I am 17 miles less than 2020 at this date. I finished the bike ride at 2:19 PM.

Photos at FM 2100 and Old Atascocita Road

  • 3-23-2021 Bike Ride FM2100 at Old Atascocita Rd-1
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  • 3-23-2021 Bike Ride FM2100 at Old Atascocita Rd-2

Before sunrise this morning a thunderstorm front moved through the area dropping .42″ of rain. By the time I left on my bike ride the streets were dry which made the timing perfect. The weather conditions for my bike ride: start 73 (59% humidity, 57.6 dew point), fair, wind variable 7 mph; finish 79 (34% humidity, 48.3 dew point), haze dust, wind W 12 mph. After yesterday’s strong wind today was much better though it did increase while I was on the road. I dressed lighter with shorts, a long sleeve jersey, and a short sleeve jersey on top. The choice felt comfortable the whole ride.

I tried a different camera setup using the Drift camera mounted on the handlebar stem and the GoPro Hero 7 Black as the handheld. The Drift audio was bad so the portions of the video with music was the Drift clips without the audio. I am trying to figure out how to get the Drift audio to resemble the GoPro. The clips are shorter too.

Golden Cheetah summary data from the bike ride.

  • 3-23-2021 Golden Cheetah Bike Ride Summary-1
  • 3-23-2021 Golden Cheetah Bike Ride Summary-2
3-23-2021 SportTracks Bike Ride Summary

Texas Biking News March 22nd 2021

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Riding the Castell Grind: Castell, Texas – Gravel Cycling in the Texas Hill Country!

JOM | www.gravelcyclist.com

“Castell is a small unincorporated riverside town in Llano County, Texas, United States. The population was 104 at the 2010 census. Located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, its northern border is formed by the Llano River. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1964, marker number 9440.” – Wikipedia.org

“The Texas Hill Country is a geographic region of Central and South Texas, forming the southeast part of the Edwards Plateau. Given its location, climate, terrain, and vegetation, the Hill Country can be considered the border between the American Southeast and Southwest. The region represents the very remote countryside of …

Trinity Skyline & Santa Fe Trestle from dfwbike

Santa Fe Trail to Deep Ellum is finally complete from dfwbike

stolen 2017 S & M ATF 22

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from Galveston, TX 77551

Distinguishing features

This is a slightly custom freestyle/street bmx that looks like a 20" bike but is a 22" which is longer for a bigger person. My info is engraved on the underside of bottom bracket where serial numbers normally are. Serial number is on left rear under bolt. See pictures. The parts of the frame that are polished are not stock and is custom so no other bike is like it unless the same idea …

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One Windy Bike Ride, Kingwood – SH 242 – Kingwood

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One windy bike ride today. After watching stage 1 of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya I got ready for the bike ride. Rolling out at 12:14 PM on my Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike I chose my “Kingwood – SH 242 – Kingwood” route. I enjoyed the miles to SH 242 to the north but the return ride was into a strong headwind. I finished at 3:13 PM after biking 36.71 miles. March road miles stand at 491.5, 109 short of my goal.

Here’s what the weather was like: start 72 (60% humidity, 57.1 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 15 mph gusts 30 mph; finish 73 (57% humidity, 56.9 dew point), overcast, wind SE 20 mph. The first day in awhile with the temperature in the 70’s. I lightened up my attire wearing shorts, a long sleeve jersey, and a windbreaker jacket. I wished the jacket could’ve broke the wind to a slower speed on the way back to Kingwood.

My video used 2 cameras and recorded a majority of the bike ride. A different video rather than short clips. I will let my comments in the video describe how the bike ride went.

3-22-2021 SportTracks Bike Ride Summary