Bad Apples
by msrarkitex            Brazos Valley Mountain Bike Association
This is an APB from BVMBA. There are some new trails, ramps, berms short cuts being made/cut on the East Loop. BVMBA needs your help in locating these rouge trail cutters. Only BVMBA is authorized to work on the trails by BTU – no one else. We are required to submit plans to BTU for any new work we do on the trails and BTU has to approve this work before we start. The new trail that is being cut is located on the side of the levee. This is strictly prohibited by BTU. If this continues, WE WILL LOOSE OUR ACCESS TO THE TRAILS! No…

Bike Snob NYC coming to Austin this Saturday
By Pam LeBlanc            Fit City

If you do any amount of urban bike riding, you’ve felt the pain of Bike Snob NYC.

It’s a car-door flinging, cell phone-distracted world out there, where fellow cyclists high on their morning Wheaties want to race you to the next stoplight and pedestrians sometimes look more like “eerily floating coffee cups with big clumps of organic matter attached” (his words, not mine.)

In “The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, and Other Obstacles on the Path to Two-Wheeled Transcendence,” ($16.95, Chronicle Books), Eben Weiss, 38, author of the Bike Snob NYC blog…

NICA High School Cycling News Round-up – March 27, 2012
By:     Cycling News
Spring league participation up despite wet weather
It’s the end of March, and the 2012 National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) racing program is going on in four leagues across the USA: NorCal, SoCal, Texas and Washington. It’s mountain biking, which means that weather sometimes dictates the play. But they’re mountain bikers so they are dealing with it. Here are the March stories from each league.

Texas
If the darkest hour comes before the dawn, for Vance McMurry, the founding chair of the Texas High School Mountain Bike League, the sun is now up. In early March, the first-ever high school mountain bike team race in Texas had to be postponed after double the March monthly average precipitation fell in…

Gran Fondo: Texas TMCO Race
Submitter: Alejandro
Created Mar 28, 12
Start:     Texas, US
Distance:     97.4 mi
Elevation:     + 1693 / – 1697 ft
Good For:     Cycling

Austin and San Antonio – bike friendly Texas!
www.rideforsaferoutes.com
The longer we are in this great state, the more we are loving it!  We’ve been lucky enough to have a string of nearly perfect weather days, which certainly helps, and as we’ve traveled from Brenham to Austin to San Antonio where we’ve been this weekend we’ve ridden through some really beautiful country.  Rolling hills, open country, and lots of quiet (well-paved!) roads.  With more daylight we can take our time even on longer-mileage days.  We’ve really been taking it all in and enjoying the…

Ready to Roll
A German Expat’s Life in Texas
Last weekend, more precisely, from Friday until the day before yesterday [Monday] we were in Fredericksburg, Texas Hill Country , on the occasion of the 5th Annual LBJ 100 Bicycle Tour . And that here is what it looks like when 4 people want to travel, including bicycles for a long weekend: pretty much stuff to take with you.

Usually when it’s only the two of us, Mary and me, who travel we have the bicycles inside the car, but with four people that’s not possible of course.

For the weekend itself we stayed, as we did last year, at Green’s Guest House . This is a beautiful and large bungalow in the middle of Fredericksburg, but in a very quiet residential area, with plenty of space for 6 people in three bedrooms, with a large living-room, a kitchen with adjoining dining-room and two…

Rocky Hill Rampage- Texas High School Mountain Bike Racing
by Tyler Ferguson

Rocky Hill Rampage- Texas High School Mountain Bike Racing from Tyler Ferguson on Vimeo.

This past weekend I headed down to Smithville, TX to shoot the first ever high school mountain bike race in the state of Texas. This is part of a larger film project documenting the league and its first season, but I wanted to share just a taste of the awesomeness that’s going on here.

New Report on Statewide Organizations and Federal Funding
Alliance for Biking & Walking: People Powered Blog
While Congress creates the framework, the most important decisions about the use of federal funds are made at the state and regional level. As the capacity of statewide bicycle advocacy groups has grown, many leaders have started to look beyond their long list of individual project victories and ask an important question: How can we use our limited resources to have a long-standing, wide-ranging impact in communities across the state? …

BikeTexas KidsKup @ Bicycle Sport Shop’s Pace Bend Mountain Bike Festival
Austin Ridge Riders
April 14, 2012 12pm-4pm
BikeTexas KidsKup introduces youth to basic bike safety and handling skills in a fun outdoor environment. BikeTexas staff prepare a child-friendly course and provide proper helmet adjustment and bike inspection to every child. Included will be lots of fun physical activity!

Course
All BikeTexas KidsKup courses are designed for safety and fun, with beginner kids in mind, and are usually about 1/4 mile in length. At many events, a separate shorter course is set up for kids on training wheels. The courses are always…

Cibolo Ride
San Antonio Wheelmen
Date:     03/31/2012
Time:     09:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location:     Cibolo, TX
Details:     Cibolo Ride (NE) [F to R]. Routes of 20, 27, 39, 51, 66 and 71 miles.
Meet at the City Hall parking lot in downtown Cibolo. From I-35 North, turn right on FM 3009 (Roy Richard Drive, exit 175) to FM 78; turn left and then left again on Main Street in Cibolo. City Hall is just off of Highway 78. Contact: Cliff Hickel, 210/884-9470

There will be a short General Membership Meeting before we start the ride.  After the ride, we’ll have lunch at Catalano’s Pizza (102 N. Main St., Cibolo) and have a drawing for multiple items. Please wear your Wheelmen jersey!

TBi Wednesday Night Criterium
Team Bicycles, inc.
Every Wednesday Night from the middle of March till the end of August at 1900 Gravel Road (don’t worry it’s paved) Fort Worth link has a map showing reference to 183 and 820. This year featuring Think!Finance Racing Cash Primes

RISE/Paralympic Sport North Texas, Hand Cycling Paralympic Experience
Saturday, April 14, 2012

San Antonio B-Cycle Spins into First Anniversary, Ranks as Second Busiest B-Cycle
Program in the Nation
News Release – City of San Antonio
The Alamo City has plenty to celebrate as San Antonio B-Cycle marks its first anniversary. With more than 106,000 miles ridden by more than 6,700 day users, San Antonio is now ranked as the second busiest B-Cycle program in the nation, behind Denver, in overall bike share usage.

“San Antonio has come long way in its transportation choices and B-Cycle has become the simple solution to get where you are going – the health benefits are an added tangible bonus,” said San Antonio B-Cycle Executive Director, Cindi Snell. “We are very excited about…

Big wheels turning: Bike culture in DFW
By Eric Griffey, Special to DFW.com
I felt like I’d just seen a flash mob, or had been involved in an experiment to test my threshold for body odor.

It was a few months ago at Malone’s Pub on a Sunday night, and my pool game was suddenly interrupted by a rambunctious group of sweaty, smelly and loud people. The bar was soon overrun by them, to the point where I couldn’t get a drink for about 15 minutes. And then, in the blink of an eye, they vanished like a fast-moving storm, leaving only a few empty bottles in their wake.

What just happened here?

The bartender told me that it was a bicycle pub crawl that met every Sunday and rode to different bars. When I started looking…