MOUNTAIN BIKER NEWBIE? ADULT BEGINNER MTB CLINICS ARE COMING SOON.
by Il Pirate        Austin Ridge Riders
Beginner MTB Clinic
Recently invested in your first mountain bike? Not sure how to get started? We have just the opportunity for you to replace your apprehension with exhilaration. Three of our Bicycle Sport Shop mountain bike coaches will be teaching a three-part skills clinic for beginners on three consecutive Saturday mornings during the month of…

NTC: Track calendar off to strong start after Matrix Track Cup
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SPRINT

The sprinters contested only the time trial over the weekend. Daniel Gay (Temecula, Calif./Get Crackin’ MS-Society) tops the NTC men’s sprint standings after winning the men’s race ahead of Zack Carlson (Plano, Texas/Matrix-Richardson Bike Mart) and Bobby Unverzagt (Torrance, Calif./Get Crackin’ MS-Society). Gay collected 15 points for his win, …

Bike Friendly Dallas, Er, Richardson
by Steve A        Dallas Point-to-Point
I’m going to celebrate “Ride Your Bike to Work Day” this year with more fervor than ever before. Really, riding my bike to work is something that I do every work day, and I’m under no illusions that such events will result in some groundswell of cycling support around DFW, much less the world. However, I send flowers on Valentine’s Day and on Mother’s Day and those holidays don’t change things much either. Instead, they remind us of things we ought to remember anyway. In my case, I DO appreciate the ride to work, despite less than…

Only at The Omni Dallas Can You Get a Pimped Out Bicycle As Seen on ‘Shark Tank’
by juliana        www.hotelchatter.com
Where there’s a reality show, there’s bound to be a hotel connection. And that’s just what we found while catching up on some old episodes of “Shark Tank” this past weekend.

Villy Customs is a high-fashion bicycle designer that lets you customize your ride from the seat to the wheels right down to the bell that you put on the handles.

While Villy Customs is mainly an online business (and a pricey one too with full bikes costing about $500+) we did some research and saw that they have a partnership with Omni Hotels. As it turns…

Cycling notebook: Houstonian coasting out West
By Dale Robertson        Houston Chronicle

Before heading west for his first significant stage race as a pro, Lawson Craddock said the Amgen Tour of California represented a whole new level of competition. He conceded that winning, for him, might be “just finishing.”

Seems he was being overly modest. After all, Craddock was coming off a victory in the SRAM Tour of the Gila in New Mexico, a significant accomplishment – and “morale booster” – for the 20-year-old Houstonian, who rides for…

Georgetown Grand Race Preview With Andrew Willis
by Keith Hutchinson            news.georgetown.org
The Subaru of Georgetown Grand, the state championship criterium race, will be held in downtown Georgetown this weekend on May 19 – 20. The event is organized and sponsored by Holland Racing, a bike race promotion company in Austin.

Where are the best places to watch? Who should you look for to win? And what’s a prime?

Andrew Willis, president of Holland Racing and a former professional bike racer himself, sat down at Roots Bistro with Keith Hutchinson from the City of Georgetown to answer these questions. As a veteran of the pro cycling world, Andrew gives you an insider’s view into the sport of…

Ride of Silence is TONIGHT! Ride, Baby, Ride!
By Chris Phelan / Contributor            healthblog.dallasnews.com
It’s here. This is THE day when all the world cycles, when the globe is united if only for a little while. Besides Christmas, this is the only time this occurs.

The Ride Of Silence kicks off at, that is leaves at 7 pm. You want to arrive before then (6:30) to line up and prepare your heart and mind.

Race, religion, economic status, what kind of bike you ride, how often or far you ride or what you ride it for won’t be questioned. Tonight we as part of humanity will join together to in silence memorial for those killed…

Recreation calendar, camps, clinics
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Bicycling: Today, 8 a.m., Wheelers Senior Ride, 30 miles, Floore’s Country Store, Helotes. 210-643-0314.

Running: Today, 6:15 p.m., SARR Wednesday Night Zoo Run, Brackenridge Park. 210-286-6291.

Bicycling: Saturday, 7:15 a.m., South Texas Tour de Cure, 18, 30, 61 and 104 miles, Champion High School, Boerne. 210-829-1765. …