Rain visited southeast Texas last night and most of today. We needed it badly but this meant no ride today. Tomorrow is supposed to be a lower chance of rain so I should be able to get a ride in.

Richie Porte (Saxo Bank) was best young rider earlier in the Giro d’Italia.
from www.cyclingnews.com
This is why I do not ride in the rain if I can help it. This picture is from the 7th stage of the Giro d’Italia and is the result of rain and 2 sections of gravel road totaling about 20K.

Family of Man Struck On Bike Seeks Driver Responsible
by KFOX El Paso
The family of a man struck on his bicycle last Thursday is asking the public for help finding the driver that struck him. Ruben Lemus, 51, was struck on South Desert Road on his bicycle as he made his way to work. “It’s probably been the hardest week of my life,” said Anais Lemus, Ruben Lemus’s daughter. A passerby eventually found Lemus on the side…

The bicycling frontier… | The Path Less Pedaled
by Russ
There has been a lot of chatter and gasps of surprise when Bicycling Magazine released their list of top bicycling cities and Portland was dethroned as bike Mecca and was replaced with Minnesota (but doesn’t it snow there?). The top 10 cities don’t change too often and the battles in those cities are usually nuances over different shades of infrastructure (bike boxes, sharrows, cycle paths, bike corrals, etc.,). These cities already have pretty well established bike routes, bike/ped coordinators working in the city and strong cycling…