September 5 Monthly Meeting – Violet Crown Sports Association
Yes, the monthly club meeting will be on Labor Day!
Special guest Nanaz Ahmadi will talk about nutrition, pre-, during, and post-ride/race. We’ll also discuss jersey design, so show up, bring those opinions, or forever hold your peace. Mangia on Mesa. Pizza at 6:30, meeting at 7:00.

Friday Film Fun: Everyone needs cyclocross practice
by elliott        Austin on Two Wheels
This Sunday, we’ll be hosting another cyclocross skills session plus a hot laps practice. Why? Because everyone needs cyclocross practice.

As this film from the 2007 World Cyclocross Worlds shows, even the best racers in the world…

New Series: From pavement to dirt
by elliott        Austin on Two Wheels
If you have been reading this site long, you will know that I have a bias towards road riding and racing. This is partly due to the focus we’ve had on urban cycling and getting more people out of cars and on bikes. It is also based on how I got back onto a bike after over a decade off the bike. It’s finally time to find my dirty side. In a new weekly series, I will share my experience converting to knobby…

Texas Custom Bicycle Show looking for volunteer help
by elliott        Austin on Two Wheels
In a little over a month, a showcase of Texas bicycle framebuilders will descend on Austin for the 4th Annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show. This is a great chance to see the latest creations from Austin area and other Texas builders and based on the list of builders confirmed this will be the biggest show to date. For 2011, the show will…

Coming To North Dallas – Northaven Trail
by dickdavid        Bike Friendly Richardson
BFR friend, Jenny posted some interesting, north Dallas trail news in the Suburban Assault Facebook group:

The Northaven Trail Phase 1 will soon be under construction just south of us, in Dallas. Phase 1 will go from the White Rock Creek trail to the Dallas North Tollway. A couple of the amenities as designed are a water bottle filling station and a bike repair station. According to their site, they’ve already had their ground breaking ceremony back…

Clean Up The Trail Day – Northaven Trail Sept 10
by Christopher Curnutt        Biking in Dallas
From the Northaven Trail website:
Clean Up the Trail Day
Saturday, September 10
8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Dealey Park – behind Dealey Montessori off of Royal Lane and Edgemere Road

As part of the “It’s My Park Day” event sponsored by the Dallas Park and Recreation Department, Friends of Northaven Trail invites neighbors and friends to join us in picking up trash along the Oncor easement between…

TRENDING: Paul hits the bike trail
By: CNN Political Producer Rachel Streitfeld
Lake Massabesic, New Hampshire (CNN) – Politicians often seek to portray youthful vigor, but at age 76 Congressman Ron Paul may have to work harder than others.

He showed Friday he’s up to the challenge.

Paul, who famously rides his bicycle for exercise throughout the sticky, sweltering summers in Houston, Texas, invited some New Hampshire staffers and reporters on an hour-long bike ride around…

Bicycle-riding pastor recycles for church building project
Bicycle-riding pastor recycles for house of worship building project
BY JENNIFER PREYSS – JLPREYSS@VICAD.COM

Pastor Johnny Moore is collecting recyclable metals (copper, steel, aluminum, tin, brass, iron, lead) to raise money for building his church, the Church of the Heart.

Surrounded by piles of metal furniture, broken and rusted appliances, beer cans strewn on the lawn and cat food cans placed neatly in plastic bins, Johnny Moore began to sing a gospel hymn. The 51-year-old self-professed…

Local alum reflects on charity ride to Alaska
By Chris Roark, croark@acnpapers.com
Elizabeth Peters experienced a lot of things this summer.

Like all Texans, she endured temperatures well into triple digits, but she also got to live through freezing temperatures, rain and snow.

The cooler weather was coupled with beautiful scenery, wildlife and a chance to raise money for a charitable cause, and Peters would say it was…

Area athletes prove true Triple Threats
by Anthony Wilson     www.gosanangelo.com
I’ve gotta brag, so please indulge me.

I have the toughest (and fittest) friends in town.

That was borne out last weekend in Wichita Falls during the hottest Hotter’N Hell 100 ever — 109 degrees! That did not, however, stop four Angelo athletes from completing what is surely one of Texas’ toughest endurance events — the Triple Threat challenge.

This year, the HHH celebrated its 30th anniversary. Wichita Falls’ annual bike ride draws approximately 15,000 cyclists from every corner of the country and the…

Big Cedar Wilderness Trail
by Shawn    Texas Mountain Bike Trails
Trail Head
5950 Eagle Ford Drive, Dallas, TX 75249, United States
Parking is next to the transformer station behind the church.
…Description
Big Cedar Wilderness Trail is the best trail in DFW and one of the top in the entire state. The terrain here is varied, going from smooth soft singletrack, to long sweeping descents, and finally some incredible Texas climbing. I sincerely hope you…

First T-Shirt Winner of the “Share your Hotter ‘n Hell bike ride experience”!
by WB admin        The Wheel Brothers
Congrats to Dick Nowell, who will receive one of our Wheelbrother T-Shirts, for submitting this write up about his first Hotter ‘n Hell Experience back in 1994!

A Rookie Bicyclist Attempting the Hotter ‘n Hell 100 in 1994
By Dick Nowell

In the spring of 1994 I decided that I would attempt the 100mi. ride at the HH100.  I had been a runner for quite a few years but my left knee had taken a beating and it was time to stop the pounding. I had read some stories…