{"id":56506,"date":"2021-05-12T23:18:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T04:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=56506"},"modified":"2021-05-12T23:18:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T04:18:52","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-may-12th-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/12\/texas-bicycling-news-may-12th-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News May 12th 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bikes stolen from Dallas Boy Scouts camp found in hidden trailer<\/a><\/h2>\n

By Peyton Yager | www.fox4news.com<\/h4>\n

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DALLAS – Dallas police are still looking for the people responsible for stealing bikes from a Boy Scout camp last month.<\/p>\n

Police found the stolen bikes at a hidden trailer inside a homeless camp. It was thanks to members of the cycling community, who had been following what happened.<\/p>\n

Dallas police say they know at least one of the suspects involved, but they add …<\/p>\n

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"Ms 150" update 5\/11\/2021<\/a><\/h2>\n

Scott P | www.bikeforums.net<\/h4>\n

The 2021 MS150 being rained out seemed to be a disappointing but unsurprising finish. I know our little team shrank from 15 to 4 riders. I know I had a hard time getting pumped up for it. It was announced late and it was a one day ride. Sure, finishing at Kyle Field wound have been neat, but still, training rides are just as long and only one day. I fully understand the issues with the ride. COVID is still an issue and it’s not easy to make a ride safe for a few thousand riders. Toss in a lack of training rides for these same reasons and a freeze that hurt a bunch of people and I can see why interest was down. Despite the miserable forecast, they tried their best to pull off the ride. They even re-routed the Katy and Waller routes after some roads were flooded after Friday’s rain. I made the decision Friday night not to ride. My wife and kids (7 year old twins) were set to …<\/p>\n

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How to Plan a Group Bike Overnight<\/a><\/h2>\n

Dynamo Jenny | www.adventurecycling.org<\/h4>\n

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When I applied to the Adventure Cycling Greg Siple Award for Young Adult Bike Travel at the end of 2018, I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pictured myself as a future tour leader. But as part of the award, I attended the Leadership Training Course in Oregon in May 2019. I left fully inspired to contribute to the cycling community, and I realized that organizing local trips could very well provide the needed nudge for potential adventure cyclists.<\/p>\n

Bike overnights, being budget-friendly and easier to fit in a schedule, can accommodate potential adventurers across ages, income levels, and cultural identities.<\/p>\n

I led my first bike overnight for Adventure Cycling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bike Your Park Day in September 2019. It was hard not to smile as I watched the cohort ahead of me, toting the night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s belongings secured by bungees onto racks and baskets, or strategically arranged in …<\/p>\n

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At least 21 cyclists have died on SA streets since 2014. A photo project wants drivers to pay attention<\/a><\/h2>\n

by Iris Dimmick | sanantonioreport.org<\/h4>\n

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Mother, friend, daughter, papi, amor. People are naturally at the center of the Human Cyclists Project, which aims to get motorists to view cyclists not as obstacles but as human beings.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When you put a face to them, it takes a different meaning,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said local photographer Dan Rosales. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just some kid who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s out on a bike ride. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, you know, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s families.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The Human Cyclists Project is an initiative of SATX Social Ride, a group that promotes safe bike rides around the city, and features portraits of smiling cyclists holding up signs that identify them as members of families. Rosales has taken more than 200 of these …<\/p>\n

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You Can Take A Bike Ride With Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope<\/a><\/h2>\n

Chad Hasty | kfyo.com<\/h4>\n

If you enjoy getting out and riding a bike, you might enjoy an opportunity being put on by the Mayor’s Fitness Council called "Bike With The Mayor".<\/p>\n

As the name suggests, Bike With The Mayor is an event where citizens can take a 6.5 mile bike ride with Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope. According to the press release from the City of Lubbock, the bike ride is a chance for the Mayor to bike and connect with citizens in Lubbock.<\/p>\n

Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope and the Mayor's Fitness Council will host Bike with the Mayor on Saturday, May 15, 2021. The 6.4 mile bike ride will ...\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
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How researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio are helping the fast-growing city mitigate traffic and make its roads safer<\/a><\/h2>\n
Erica Sweeney | www.businessinsider.com<\/h4>\n
San Antonio is one of the fastest-growing cities in the US, and with more people comes more traffic.<\/p>\n
Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio are working on solutions for city roadways to better accommodate all modes of transportation, including vehicles, bikes, and scooters.<\/p>\n
"We need to find ways to balance out our transportation systems," Greg Griffin, assistant professor of urban and regional planning at UTSA’s College of Architecture, Construction and Planning, told Insider. That includes investing in parking infrastructure and more pedestrian- and bike-friendly streets, especially downtown. …<\/p>\n
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Testing the new wheel<\/a><\/h2>\n
Randy Surguy | www.strava.com<\/h4>\n
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San Antonio bar named in $20 million lawsuit after tragic death of cyclist<\/a><\/h2>\n
Katie Friel | www.mysanantonio.com<\/h4>\n
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A month after 43-year-old Beatrice \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bea\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gonzalez was struck down while riding with her bicycling club, her family filed a lawsuit last week suing the alleged drunk driver and a local bar known only as "Unknown Bar X." On May 12,  the name of that local establishment was revealed by the San Antonio Express-News to be Cervecer\u00c3\u00ada Chapultepec.<\/p>\n
The Mexican chain is a relative newcomer to the San Antonio, and garnered headlines last year when it opened its first San Antonio location just blocks away from where Gonzalez was killed on April 7. Cervecer\u00c3\u00ada Chapultepec serves up a hodgepodge menu including …<\/p>\n
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Learned To Remove S Biking Wichita Bluff Nature Area With Thunder Cracked Window<\/a><\/h2>\n
Durango Texas | durangotexas.blogspot.com<\/h4>\n
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This morning I drove my bike to the east parking lot access to the Circle Trail on Loop 11. I had planned to roll my bike’s wheels east on the Circle Trail to see what the current state of progress is of the construction of the link to the Circle Trail in Lucy Park.<\/p>\n
But, the trail in that direction was blocked today by jackhammering on the trail near the parking lot.<\/p>\n
So, instead of east I headed west to the Wichita Bluff Nature Area, where I realized today, upon …<\/p>\n
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Land of Fire and Wind<\/a><\/h2>\n
By David Goodrich | www.crazyguyonabike.com<\/h4>\n
San Angelo \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Menard: West of Eden<\/h4>\n
Monday May 10, 2021, 64 miles (103 km) – Total so far: 726 miles (1,168 km)\nToday was a battle of a different sort. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been banging through the big West Texas sun, afternoons well into the 90\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, very little shade of any kind. Every now and then, the shadow of a vulture would pass over, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d decide after a while that I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t done yet. It was a shimmering kind of riding.<\/p>\n
But the land\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s changed after San Angelo, as has the weather. As I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ridden east, the mesquite has grown from little scraggly bushes to ten-foot trees. Now corn and wheat fields begin to emerge, and the Chihuahuan Desert is far behind. Today was downright chilly, never out of the low 60\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, spitting rain on occasion, and I would need to make 40 miles into a headwind before lunch. Taking inventory: Toes, cold; arms, cold; neck, sore; legs, firing. Stopping for a break out of the wind behind a barn, it struck me that I really didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have an option to getting back on the road. And the longer I stopped, the …\n\"\"\/<\/p>\n
Menard \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Rest Day: Adventures with Carleton<\/h4>\n
Tuesday May 11, 2021\nSometimes you get up in the morning and put on the right shirt.<\/p>\n
I walked over to the donut shop next door for breakfast, passing a pickup with the sticker \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jesus. Trump. John Wayne.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hmm. Might be a good place for me to meld into the background. At the only other table was a group of men. Noticing my Teddy Roosevelt shirt (from the eponymous national park), one of them invited me over: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a man I could vote for again for president. Wish we had one like him around.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I settled into my chair, just a little edgy.<\/p>\n
Needn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have been. Two of the men were pecan farmers, one a retired history teacher. One was looking forward to a visit to the Alamo and the chance to hold John Wayne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rifle, from the movie. The conversation turned to …<\/p>\n
Menard \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mason: The ends of empire<\/h4>\n
Wednesday May 12, 2021, 38 miles (61 km) – Total so far: 764 miles (1,229 km)\nI met again this morning with the Conference of Elders around the table at the Donut Shop in Menard. Carleton was there again, and they admired my courage for taking a ride with him out to the Presidio yesterday: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see. Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hear. Good thing he can still drive.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d They told me I should ride by their pecan farm on the way out of town to see the marker for the mission. …<\/p>\n
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Texas Biking from Twitter<\/h1>\n
This Saturday in San Antonio:)https:\/\/t.co\/KmJJstVN7w<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/y5Qs4Otgs9<\/a><\/p>— FrankenBike (@FrankenBikeUSA) May 12, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>