Houston Bicycle Club – Fulshear South Ride
Sat 09/10/11
One of our regular Saturday club rides. Routes may vary from week to week (maps are available). Flat roads with lots of pretty scenery and a cut through on pecan tree covered Hunt Road. One ride goes west and south to Orchard and Wallis and is about 36-40 miles long. The long optional ride goes west and south through Orchard to Wallis, then north to Frydek and Pattison before returning to Fulshear. Shorter options are available too.

El Paso Bicycle Club Ride
Sunday, September 18
Lower Valley Ride
Description:     Meet at Cotton Eyed Joe’s Restaurant at I-10 Clint exit. Ride through the farmlands around Clint, Fabens and San Eli and stop at the historic square in San Eli before returning. 35 moderately paced miles. Breakfast after at Cotton Eyed Joe’s. Jim Weaver, 775-9757.

San Antonio Wheelmen Rides
Saturday, September 10:  Boerne “Is this the last hill?” Ride
Sunday, September 11:  Woman Hollering Creek Ride
Saturday, September 17:  La Vernia Wild West Hammerfest Ride
Sunday, September 18:  Comal Elementary Ride
Saturday, September 24:  Cibolo Ride
Sunday, September 25:  Comfort-Ladybird Loop Ride
Saturday, November 12:  Soldier Ride San Antonio

Families of hit-and-run victims wait for answers in anguish
by Adriana M. Chávez \ El Paso Times
Months after a motorist struck and killed bicyclist Heinz Duerkop, his neighbors scoured streets and driveways looking for the motorist’s vehicle.

They looked at cars in parking lots and driveways, inspecting every white or light-colored vehicle, looking for some kind of clue: a blood stain, a dented fender, any type of damage that may have been caused by hitting Duerkop’s bike. …

FWBA Ride List
Beginners and Casual Ride
Saturday, September 10, 2011 8:00 am
Saturday, September 17, 2011 8:00 am
Saturday, September 24, 2011 8:00 am
Art’s Park and Trail Head – Go south on Winscott to Memorial Oak. Trail Head is at the end of the road. Cost: 1 dollar for entrance to the State Park. Distance: up to 20 miles all on trails and park roads. Ride will normally be from Trail Head up thru Benbrook Lake Park to HI 377 and back. This is…

According to the article below there were an estimated 16,000 bikers at the Hotter’n Hell Hundred this year.

At 109 degrees, bike ride lives up to its name
The Norman Transcript
WICHITA FALLS, Texas — The trickle of brown water moving under the bridge didn’t do justice to the name Red River on the elevated highway sign above it. Rivers are deep and wide. This was shallow and slow. It was too thick to drink and too thin to plow.

I shouldn’t have been surprised. This area has lacked rain for months, receiving only three inches in a year that should have brought more than 20. A local rancher said the last good rain was in…

Mountain Bike Race Series
by League Director in News
Season two of the Texas High School Cycling League Mountain Bike Race Series is here!

The race schedule was just finalized and we’re really looking forward to our second season so be sure to get out your mountain bike, dust it off, borrow a friend’s mountain bike, and recruit new kids from your schools that might be into mountain biking.
September 24-25: U. of Texas 3-race MTB weekend at Comfort, TX
October 8-9: U of Houston 2-race MTB weekend at Smithville, TX
November 12th: Tyler Speedwaves MTB race at Tyler, TX…