{"id":65039,"date":"2024-04-23T23:19:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T04:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=65039"},"modified":"2024-04-23T23:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T04:19:18","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-tuesday-april-23-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2024\/04\/23\/texas-bicycling-news-tuesday-april-23-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News Tuesday – April 23, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First Records Broken and State Champions Crowned for 2024!<\/a><\/h2>\n

Great Houston Cycling Foundation | shoutout.wix.com<\/h4>\n

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A fun team night at TNR was followed up by a huge weekend of racing where riders showed their early season form in TT"s and State Championships. Plus we have our first USAC Sanctioned TNR of the year tomorrow night! Registration is online only and closes at 6:30pm.\nCheck out our Facebook and Instagram pages for announcements & photos.<\/p>\n

Upcoming Events<\/p>\n

6:45pm Tues 23rd Apr – TNR USAC Sanctioned<\/p>\n

6:45pm Tues 30th Apr – TNR Sprint & Keirin Night<\/p>\n

6:45pm Tues 14th May – TNR Bunch Racing<\/p>\n

8:30am Sat 18th May – Atomic TT Series p\/b Hammertime ProShop #2<\/p>\n

6:45pm Tues 21st May – TNR Aussie Team & Mado<\/p>\n

11am Sat 25th May – Intro to Track Class<\/p>\n

6:45pm Tues 4th June – TNR Bunch Racing<\/p>\n

11am Sun 9th June – Intro to Track Class<\/p>\n

9am 10-12th June – LCYCL Summer Camp Wk1<\/p>\n

6:45pm Tues 11th June – TNR Sprint & Keirin Night<\/p>\n

9am 17-19th June – LCYCL Summer Camp Wk2<\/p>\n

6:45pm Tues 18th June – TNR USAC Sanctioned<\/p>\n

8:30am Sat June 22nd – Atomic Age Based TT Championships<\/p>\n

8:30am Sun June 23rd – Super Sunday #2<\/p>\n

6:45pm Tues 25th June – TNR feat. YCL Finals \u2026<\/p>\n

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I Biked 165 Miles Behind the Pine Curtain of East Texas<\/a><\/h2>\n

By Morgan O\u2019Hanlon | www.texasmonthly.com<\/h4>\n

Bikepacking\u2014long-distance adventure cycling and camping\u2014is on the rise in Texas. During the muddy, exhausting East Texas Showdown, I found out why.\n\"\"\/<\/p>\n

On a damp March morning, I strapped bags full of camping gear to the frame of my gravel bike and joined about 250 cyclists for the fourth annual East Texas Showdown, one of the state\u2019s biggest and longest bikepacking events. The starting line was in Point Blank, about twenty miles east of Huntsville. For the first hour or so, the pack rode east together, swarming the two-mile stretch of U.S. 190 spanning the massive breadth of Lake Livingston. Those first ten miles were deceptively smooth as we fell into pace and familiarized ourselves with the faces we\u2019d get to know for the next 165 (or 280 or 400) miles. We said goodbye to the smooth highway as we turned onto our \u2026<\/p>\n

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Mountain Biking at McKinney Falls State Park, Austin TX<\/a><\/h2>\n

Ken Simmons | www.youtube.com<\/h4>\n