Overall Sales at IBDs Up for September
www.bicycleretailer.com
BOULDER, CO (BRAIN)—According to Leisure Trends Group, overall merchandise sales at IBDS during September were up 5 percent in units and 9 percent in dollars compared to September 2010, totaling $263 million. That’s up $21 million compared to the same month last year.

Complete bike sales, which accounted for $131 million or 46 percent of that total, dropped 1 percent in units. But dollar sales were up 9 percent. The Boulder, Colorado, market research group attributed the growth to a jump in the average retail-selling price of 9 percent. The average bike in September sold for…

Solavaca Poker Ride November 5th
www.dorba.org
Crappy Part:  Co-worker’s 10 year old daughter has severe type I diabetes.  October 2nd she went unresponsive.  Rushed to Cook’s, complications resulted in massive stroke at the base of her brain.  Been in neuro ICU in a coma since then.  Family is devastated emotionally and financially.  Prognosis is poor and long.

How You Can Help:  Mack has donated the ranch on November 5th.  5 stations will be placed around the trail.  Get a random card at each station.  Highest 3 hands will get one of those really cool trophies.  $10 per person covers gate and entry.  Ride from 12-2.  Hands determined 2:30.  Drink beer after, before, during (byob).

Bob Gracey at TSO in Cleburne has donated a Rudy Project Package with sunglasses, duffle bag (best bag I’ve ever owned), hat and helmet.  $500 value.  We’ll raffle that off.

Hot Dogs from noon til 3.  Donate a buck.

King Cross Weekend
Start: Saturday, November 12, 2011 @ 10:00 AM
Woodcreek Church
3400 E Renner Road Richardson, TX
Description
Entry fee is $30 for pro 1/2 men and cat 3 men, $25 for other categories. Kids race is free.

The Explainer: When and if to sign that waiver
By Charles Pelkey        velonews.competitor.com
Q. Dear Explainer,
My experience is luckily past, but I was hit by a car a year-and-a-half ago. The driver was ticketed by the police, but I can’t quite remember what the ticket was. It did make it clear he was at fault. He was a working Joe that just wasn’t watching out for bikes.

I didn’t want to sue and he had the minimum amount of insurance. I had considerable hospital bills, and even though I had health insurance I wasn’t sure they would cover the bills. I felt like the driver’s insurance, and my health and car insurance were all trying to make sure they spent the least money possible. Since I wasn’t going to sue, lawyers weren’t interested in talking to me. In the end, my health insurance covered the bills and the driver’s insurance and mine did pay…

Ovilla Odyssey
Lone Star Cyclists
Pace: Easy, Touring, Fast
Date: Saturday, November 12, 2011 – 9:00am
Location: Cedar Hill High School, 1 Longhorn Blvd, Cedar Hill
Let’s journey to Ovilla and then south to country roads and wide-open spaces. An easy pace route of 24 miles takes you to Ovilla and back. Continue on to Waxahachie and Midlothian for 45 miles of fun, or swing down to Maypearl for a 67 mile route. Whichever…

Eddie’s Park (your car) And Ride
Lone Star Cyclists
Pace: Touring
Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011 – 9:00am
Location: Burleson, I-35 & Alsbury
Starting at the Park and Ride at the intersection of I-35 and Alsbury.
We will have loops of 30, 40, 50, and 70 miles. We will get to ramble down some of the more peaceful, low traffic country roads as we cruise out to Lillian, Venus and Alvarado. Those wanting a little more challenge can throw in the loop that will take them out to 70…

Volunteer to help build bikes for kids this Saturday
by marc@mcmumby.com         BikeDFW
8:30 AM to 5 PM, Saturday Nov. 5th
Children’s Advocacy Center
2205 Los Rios Blvd.
Plano, TX 75074
972-633-6600
The Children’s Advocacy Center of Collin County helps abused kids. A donor has donated about 300 bicycles that are currently in boxes and need to be assembled. This Saturday, November 5th, from 8:30 am to 5 pm,the Advocacy Center will be open for volunteers to help assemble these bikes. We encourage…

12-year-old struck by vehicle dies
Driver sought in hit-and-run death of boy
By Matt Ledesma            www.timesrecordnews.com
A 12-year-old boy was killed early Wednesday morning along a busy stretch of U.S. 287 in Hardeman County when he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bike.

The victim was identified by the Texas Department of Public Safety later that day as Donald Anthony Kinnaman, of Quanah. …