{"id":15114,"date":"2012-07-31T23:13:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T04:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=15114"},"modified":"2012-07-31T23:13:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T04:13:51","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-july-31st-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/31\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-july-31st-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for July 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday Night Social Ride: The Super Soaker<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nBy Keith Byrd
\nThursday, August 2, 2012
\n7:00pm in CDT
\nGrab your water weapon of choice, leave your Sunday Go-To-Meetin’ clothes at the house and get ready for a H20 combat. After a nice leisurely cruise, we’ll be stopping at an undisclosed location where Social Cycling Austin will have a COUPLE OF THOUSAND WATER BALLOONS filled and ready for you to unload on your fellow Thursday bike friends. Last time we did this they…<\/p>\n

Bryan man completes 2,745-mile bike race<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\n745-miles
\nBy Kyrie O’Connor\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0www.mysanantonio.com
\nBilly Rice calls the Tour Divide bicycle challenge “the hardest race in the world that nobody knows about,” but that’s rather understating the case. It’s a lot harder than that. Any one day of it is harder than anything you or I will do all year.
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\nThe race is 2,745 miles long, from Banff, Alberta, Canada, to Antelope Wells, N.M., on the Mexican border. That’s 200,000 feet of climbing, and it’s almost all off-road, on a patchwork of trails, dirt roads, forest paths and service roads along the Continental Divide. And it’s done in a single stage: no checkpoints, no…<\/p>\n

Le Tour de Longneques<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nbikenoob.com
\nI broke away from my usual weekend routine Saturday, by getting up really early and heading west to ride in Le Tour de Longneques. The brainchild of my blogging friend Don Bynum, the Tour started a couple of years ago as an easy 18-mile jaunt between Llano and Castell, Texas.
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\nBut each time it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been run, it has grown in popularity. And as cyclists have gotten better, the Tour was extended. It now starts in Castell, (pop. 72) a hamlet along the Llano River, and goes to Llano (pop. 3,300), the county seat, then back to Castell.<\/p>\n

What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the attraction of Castell? The Castell General Store \u00e2\u20ac\u201d one of the funkiest local businesses you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll ever want to see. It appears ready to fall down in…<\/p>\n

75 Years Young – Skip, You Da Man!<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nwww.planobicycle.org
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\nSkip Sparry, local Plano hero and all around nicest guy you could ever hope to meet, took away 2 silver medals at\u00c2\u00a0 the U.S. National masters track championship in Colorado Springs from the several events he entered. Skip,\u00c2\u00a0 a “Rudy Rider,” overcoming years of injuries and an on-going heart condition (his cardiologist: “Don’t race, Skip”) at the age of 75, did all cyclists proud with his outstanding performance. He is clearly placed as…<\/p>\n

Roosevelt Park\u00e2\u20ac\u201cMission Ride to I-37<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nHill Country Bicycle Touring Club
\nAugust 5, 2012 7:00 am
\n642 Lone Star Blvd., San Antonio, TX
\nWe will be meeting at Roosevelt Park located at 642 Lone Star Blvd. San Antonio, TX 78204. We will depart Promptly at 7:00 am for a 39 mile ride so arrive early to be ready to ride by then. This ride will take us down through the Missions, down Southton Road and around Braunig Lake. There are two stops along the way where you can buy water and…<\/p>\n

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Registration has been open for 24 hours for our Alumni Riders. We have 14 Alumni registered for the Tour. Are you one of them?<\/p>\n

— Tour du Rouge (@TourduRouge) July 31, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n