Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for January 24th
Amateur Road Racing Season Now Officially Underway
from Bicycle.net | Attitude is Everything by System6
Saturday unfolded a balmy sixty degrees, shockingly sunny, and with just the mildest of breeze from some direction or another. That’s what left a few of us worryingly overdressed for what was arguably the first road race of the new decade in Texas.
Aside from the technical glitch that 2010 might be more like the last year of the decade than the first, the Copperas Cove road race took place on Saturday (1/23) in North Central Texas, a short drive from Baylor University in Temple Texas and maybe a rifle-shot from Fort Hood. …
Retail Spotlight: Bicycle Sport Shop Austin Texas
by Bill Fanning
Last week we talked with Chris Carter who runs marketing for Austin’s own Bicycle Sport Shop. He shared with us how he is currently using social media as well as ideas for the future. This post highlights one successful program built as a result of customer feedback on Facebook.
Bicycle Sport Shop has been an Austin retailer since the mid ’80’s. They currently have two locations, 10947 Research Blvd and 517 S. Lamar Blvd. They use social media to market their business in a variety of ways. …
Life Time Fitness » Flower Mound Cycling Club: Sam’s Club MS150 …
by shawn@skekd.com
The Sam’s Club MS150 is a great two-day ride that starts in Frisco, TX at Rough Rider Stadium / Frisco Convention Center on the morning of May 1, 2010. The first day takes riders through the north Texas country side just south of Lake …
Copperas Cove Classic, January 2010 « Whareagle’s Weblog
by whareagle
The 2010 Copperas Cove Classic has become the de facto start of the annual road race season for bikes here in Texas. The course is lollipop-shaped, with a 9 mile out route, then a loop, and the return 9 miles back in. …. you are making this more and more fun, the more we do this together. I’ll write more regularly from here on out, and may modify this post to include images as they become available. Look for more about the training on my Cycling Center of Dallas Weblog. …