Great Southwest Bike Swap
When: Sunday, February 7th
9:00 a.m.– 3:00 p.m. Fort Worth, Texas
What: What is it? A one day event where bicycle shops, frame builders and independent
bike geeks can buy, sell, trade and show bicycle stuff.
Where: The Tarrant County Resource Connection is on the south side of Fort Worth on Campus Dr., one exit east of the I-20/I-35w interchange. The Resource Connection is generously allowing our two clubs to hold the swap meet in the gymnasium. So, no matter how ugly the weather, we will be dry and comfy. …

Introducing Bike Friendly Knox-Henderson « Suburban Assault
by dickdavid
Rolling off the success of Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, another north Texas neighborhood has joined the ranks of local bicycle advocacy. We now have Bike Friendly Knox-Henderson, adding to the family which includes Bike Denton, …

House of Pistard – Destroying Cycling: GALLUS
by Xander
Jeremy Schlachter used to be a courier in Glasgow but he’s now building frames in Texas and they are lovely. I’ve been meaning to post something about Gallus Cycles for ages ago but Hey! What are you gonna do? …

Bike the Borderline: ‘night Jon Boy
by Ant and Kat
The ride today was eclipsed by the gastronomic, euphoric and mind blowing brilliant experience of eating at ROYERS ROUND TOP CAFE, courtesy of Jon Boy (JB) and Bud Royer… but more of that later.

As time passes by, we are becoming masters of bike ride planning! Religiously checking the weather.com website the night before setting out on our incremental reduction of the remaining 10,000 miles and taking the wind direction, speed and distance into consideration, we are now able to successfully and with military precision calculate the exact time at which we need to eject ourselves…

Fitness activities aren’t about winning and losing — they’re about the lifestyle
By Bill Cullins
Posted January 29, 2010 at 9:46 p.m.
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Eleven of us who bike, run, or compete in multisport events are amateur athletes. Very few (if any) of us will ever become a professional, and most of us will finish mid-pack in the races we enter. However, while winning is obviously a great goal, there are much more important reasons why we build our lifestyle around fitness activities.

I’ve given a lot of thought to the question “What if I couldn’t do my sports any more”? Quite frankly, that question scares the heck of out me. I’ve participated in challenging…