Texas Bicycling News July 2nd 2019

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Spring Creek Greenway, Shady Bike Ride

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July 6th Join us as we ride through pristine forest on a paved 13 mile path from Dennis Johnston Park in Spring through Jesse H. Jones Park with a turnaround at Route 69 in Humble.

It’s an out-and-back route totaling about 26 miles. Along the way we’ll pass through the Stahl Preserve and Pundt Park.

Ride 12-13mph. However, please be very confident you are able to ride 26 miles without difficulty if you join this ride. You must bring at least 2 liters of water and a snack! …

Early morning Bike Ride, White Oak Bayou Trail

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July 9th Meet at 6:30 and roll out at 6:45 am. Meet in front of Onion Creek/Golden Bagels. You can park on the surrounding street, watch for no parking signs. We will roll at 6:45 am.

Expect about an hour and a half ride. We’ll regroup along the way so no set speed. It will be an out-and-back ride so you can leave early or ride longer. …

Wonder World & Hunter Intersection Improvements Slated For A TxDOT Public Hearing

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Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) will be holding a public hearing to present the proposed project on RM 12 (Wonder World Drive)/FM 2439 (Hunter Road) 200 feet north of Hunter Road to 400 feet south of Hunter Road in Hays County, Texas.

The proposed improvements include two pedestrian refuge islands, bicycle accommodations, bike lanes, and updated signing and striping.

The public hearing is …

Broken Bones (Texas MTB Edit)

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Cowboy Jaxon got bucked off his horse a little too hard today and took quite the beating. Put together this edit in his honor. https://youtu.be/Tm1RLTVfK2Q

Weekly Mountain Bike Rides

wacoheartoftexas.com

July 13 @ 8:15 am – 9:30 am We will be starting a weekly mountain bike ride from Bicycle World to Cameron Park on Saturday mornings. We’ll ride down to the trails and ride for about an hour. Weather permitting – please call to verify. Cameron Park 2601 Sturgis Rd Waco, TX 76708

This was a first for me.

By hurronnicane | austinmountainbiking.com

So I was riding at Muleshoe with my son and had a failed attempt on one of the ledgy climbs. When I went to retry it my crank wouldn’t turn, which was when I noticed that my derailleur looked odd. It was up against the spokes. After messing with the derailleur and turning the bike upside down I heard the wheel shift in the dropout. At about the same moment my son noticed that the thru axle was was loose. When I turned the bike over the thru axle had …

Introducing BikeHouston’s Development Director

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BikeHouston Board of Directors is pleased to name Jessica “Tinker” Green Engagement and Development Director BikeHouston has selected Jessica “Tinker” Green as Engagement and Development Director. Green will oversee the organization’s communications, member involvement, fundraising and special events.

Green has been a passionate bicycle racer and enthusiast since 2000. She has more than nine years of experience in the cycling industry. Her professional experience includes …

Introducing BikeHouston’s Summer Interns: Damala Adamoh And Kayla Graver

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Damola Adamoh Damola Adamoh learned of BikeHouston through his health professor at the University of Houston, Dr. Ripperger Suhler. Dr. Suhler has a burning passion for ensuring that his …

Let’s Ride With Confidence

By Inge Ford | bikehouston.org

Drive your bike! Yes, that’s right. As Houston strives to become a more bicycle-friendly city, people who ride bicycles want to feel safe and comfortable when traveling on roadways. Yet, as cyclists, we owe …

North Houston Highway Improvement Project

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Update On I-45: Where Does BikeHouston Stand? On June 13 BikeHouston joined LINK Houston, Air Alliance Houston, and residents to voice concerns about the proposed North Houston Highway Improvement Project.

Our Advocacy Director Jessica Wiggins spoke on behalf of BikeHouston. Her comments follow:

“Hello, my name is Jessica Wiggins with the non-profit organization BikeHouston.

This highway package is a grand scheme to serve people in cars driving from somewhere else through the city of Houston.

For anyone riding a bike in Houston, our urban fabric is of upmost importance. How Houstonians move from neighborhood to neighborhood on a bicycle is limited to local streets that cross under and over freeways. Much of our …

A Letter From The Director

By: Clark Martinson | bikehouston.org

Bike Houston’s History of Success

Nearly three decades ago, Houston bicyclists gathered at Palmer Episcopal Church to hear State Representative Charlie Gandy promote the newly formed Texas Bicycle Coalition (TBC). They joined a statewide movement “to protect and promote bicycling in Texas.”

That meeting launched the Houston Bicyclists Alliance (HABA). The alliance included the Citizens for Hike and Bike, founded by Sandra McMurtry, and the Two Wheel Transit Authority, founded by David and Debbie Huffman. HABA became the …

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Easy Bike Ride With a Strava KOM Thrown In

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A shorter ride today due to other time commitments so I rode the “Atascocita – Walden – E. Lake Houston Parkway” route biking 29.03 miles. Wheels rolled at 9:33 AM and finished at 11:48 AM.

Weather during the bike ride: start 85 (78% humidity, 77.4 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 4 mph. Finish 92 (61% humidity, 77.1 dew point), partly cloudy, wind calm. Summer is starting to assert itself which is okay as I prefer hot weather.

Strava told me this ride was easier than my usual efforts. This route is short of uninterrupted segments where I can get up to speed and stay there which impacts my effort, average speed, and time moving. I got a KOM on Strava for the Bayou boogie east segment which surprised me consider the effort Strava for the ride.

Nothing out of the ordinary that I saw along the route.

Wednesday weather should repeat today’s so biking is on the agenda.

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary
Strava Bike Ride Summary

Strava Year Progressions YTD Bike Ride Miles

Strava Year Progressions YTD Bike Ride Miles

Texas Bicycling News July 1st 2019

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Bike shares are booming. Can Houston become a cycling city? [Opinion]

By Beth Martin | www.houstonchronicle.com

When did you last ride a bike?

Whether you’re an avid cyclist or thinking back on a memory from childhood, you know the feeling of freedom and exhilaration — the sense of adventure and satisfaction that comes from being in closer contact with your surroundings.

At Houston BCycle, we see our riders experience these feelings when they use bike share to head to work, pick up groceries or ride along the bayou …

30-acre bike park soon to be unveiled in north Houston

www.khou.com

We pull back the curtain on the soon to be completed bike park in north Houston. And if you like riding a BMX bike, you are going to love this.

Bayou Bike Workshop

www.bikebarn.com

Come join us at our Rental Shop on Buffalo Bayou for an informative workshop on basic repairs. Our expert staff will share their knowledge on basic repairs, quick adjustments and of course, how to change a flat! Discover what tools you need to carry with you on your next bike ride. And ride confidently knowing you won’t be stuck on the bike path, miles from home. A bike is not needed but please bring your questions!

This is a great workshop for families and anyone that enjoys riding their bike… especially along Buffalo Bayou.

Free Workshop, please RSVP. …

Bikeable breweries? Houston’s working on it.

Maggie Gordon | www.houstonchronicle.com

After drinking some beer and hanging out for a little, co-workers Claudia Gamica, from left, Paul Kieffer, Alexis Désiré, Kaitlin Prior and Marlene Barnett small chat before taking on the Tour de Brewery’s Downtown and Eado Tour from Saint Arnold Brewing Company on Saturday, June 22, 2019, in Houston. The four-hour bicycle tour started from …

This started off in the gray area between a good idea and a bad one. Two years ago, Jason Buhlman and Brian Kondrach got about 30 of their friends together for an afternoon of two-wheel tourism, in which they aimed to bike between as many breweries as possible in one day. …

Houston man spreads passion by recycling old bikes to give away

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston bicyclist is sharing his passion for riding through recycling.

Ferell Surrett began Recycled Cycles of Texas about four years ago.

Surrett takes partially damaged or old bikes and fixes them up to giveaway to those who may not otherwise have the means to get a bicycle.

Since he began, Surrett says he …

Bicyclists’ Perspective Sought At Austin Meeting

By Tony Cantu | patch.com

AUSTIN, TX — The public is invited to attend an upcoming meeting of the Texas Department of Transportation’s Bicycle Advisory Committee to ensure bicyclists’ perspectives are included for planning purposes.

The committee’s next meeting is scheduled on July 15 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 200 E. Riverside Dr., Building 200, Conference Room D.

TxDOT’s Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC) advises the Transportation Commission on bicycle issues to help ensure the …

iCan Shine Bike Camp

By Dave Froehlich | www.fox7austin.com

AUSTIN, Texas (FOX 7 Austin) – The iCan Shine Bike Camp is set to get underway in Round Rock. It gives people with intellectual and development disabilities a chance to learn how to ride without assistance. Asha Tomas with the Down Syndrome Association of Central Texas and Ruthie Hanna from Variety, The Children’s Charity of Texas have details. …

Northside Ribbon Cutting And New Street Priorities

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Today BikeHouston is feeling proud. From the creation of the Houston Bike Plan in 2017, through the development of the Build 50 Challenge in 2018, and now to the unveiling of our first community driven bike lane, we’re starting to see real change on our roads.

What started as a street clean-up coordinated by Avenue CDC, the Salvation Army, the Department of Transformation, and BikeHouston, the pop-up bike lane served as an introduction of the concept of an on-street protected bike lane to the …

Upcoming Rides

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Paperclip Tuesday, July 2, 2019 @ 5:45 PM

Sugar Land WNW 2019 Wednesday, July 3, 2019 @ 6:00 PM

Cool Cat Cycles Wed Night Gravel Wednesday, July 3, 2019 @ 6:30 PM

Memorial Park Criterium Wednesday, July 3, 2019 @ 5:00 PM

Thursday Night Shop Ride – Short Route (12.5) Miles – Pearland Bicycles Thursday, July 4, 2019 @ 6:00 PM

Sugar Cycles MS150 Group Ride Sunday, July 7, 2019 @ 7:30 AM

Sunday Blendin Sunday, July 7, 2019 @ 7:30 AM

Texas Bicycling from Twitter

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Not So Hot on the Greenway to Start July Biking

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I wanted to start July biking off with a good route so I chose the Spring Creek Greenway for 48.5 miles. My goal for July is 800 miles. Leaving at 9:03 AM put me in front of the mid day heat and the shade on the greenway was much appreciated.

Weather during the bike ride: start 88 (69% humidity, 76.5 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SW 5 mph. Finish 90 (59% humidity, 74.2 dew point), partly cloudy, wind variable 4 mph. Attire: shorts, short sleeve jersey, and arm sleeves.

Traffic getting to the Bevil Jarrell Memorial Bridge was light except for waiting a few cars to pass before I entered Hamblen Road. I read that the City of Houston and Harris County have revived cooperation on re-routing Hamblen Road. Maybe this will include a bike lane that has been mentioned before.

Once I got to the upramp to get on the bridge I saw the deer carcass that had been there the last two rides was gone. I took these photos on the bridge.

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Exiting the bridge and down the ramp I was greeted by a truck with a reach bucket blocking the way and walked through some mud to get around it. When I got to the trailhead two other bikers were there, one was looking at the map and the other rode up from the west. I said hello to both of them as I went by.

At Jesse Jones Park I took the left turn at the bridge to add a few extra tenths of a mile and then back to the trail. AS I rode west several other bikers passed going the opposite direction and I pass several that were slower than me going west.

To preserve time I didn’t stop for a rest break riding west. I did stop and take these photos of the greenway shade.

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The shade kept me cooler than I would expect for a July ride with sun. There were a few places where the greenway was covered by water from recent rains but less than an inch deep. I rode slowly through the water trying to keep the Canyon clean.

As I approached the western end of the trail a sign said there was a mile left and I thought it was still closed like the last time but when I got to that spot the orange barrier fabric was down against the railing and the barrier was moved out of the way. As I rode onto the concrete path I looked to my right and saw all of the rock and other materials put in place to repair the bank where it washed out. These photos show that spot.

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When the creek floods again I wonder if the repairs will withstand the rushing water.

Two unusual sightings during the ride back to the east: a black snake slithering across the trail and a large turtle off to the right of the trail.

On the way back east I stopped at Dennis Johnston Park for water and then back on the bike. I passed a few more bikers and walkers before stopping at Pundt Park to eat a Clif Bar. I didn’t stay too long and rode east with the last stop at Jesse Jones Park to refill my water bottle for the last 9 miles.

The traffic on Hamblen Road was about the same but once I passed Forest Cove Drive it disappeared. Winding through Forest Cove and Kingwood streets I finished the ride at 1:12 PM, about when I told my wife I would be back.

Tuesday weather looks favorable for biking.

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary

SportTracks bike Ride Summary

Strava Year Progressions YTD Bike Ride Miles

With my rest day on Sunday previous years are still trailing 2019.