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Texas Bicycling Daily News Roundup for December 5th

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Confronting the Scofflaw Cyclist
By Rick Bernardi, J.D.            www.bicyclelaw.com
You’ve probably seen “the comment.” It goes something like this. A news article reports that a cyclist was injured, or maybe even killed. The cyclist was following the law. The driver was not. Maybe the driver was just being careless. Maybe the driver was deliberately targeting the cyclist for harassment, or worse.

It doesn’t matter, because “the comment” always follows the same logic: “When cyclists stop breaking the law…” Regardless of what actually happened, regardless of the fact that this particular cyclist was following the law and this particular driver was not, some aggrieved motorist feels…

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Texas Cup — Bikesport Cyclocross Challenge
txbra.org

Catherine Hall Moore shows a collegiate rider how it’s done on the run-up hill at Bikesport Cyclocross Challenge. Photo courtesy of Corvin Alstot.

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Trail Work Parties
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Memorial Park Work Party
Trail: Memorial Park
Saturday, December 15, 2012 – 1:00pm
We’ll be working on Saturday December 15th at 1:00 PM on cleaning up the blue trail as well as improving the drainages and armoring the low spots. We will be assembling at the DOG WASH STATION. As you’ve probably noticed, the blue trail tends to stay wet and muddy MUCH longer than the other trails and this work will fix that problem. We’ll probably…

Carl Barton Work Party
Trail:  Carl Barton
Sunday, December 30, 2012 – 8:30am
December work party at Carl Barton to clean trails.

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New horse in the stable…
by In-Yo-Grill                forums.mtbr.com

Better pics coming soon.

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Tuesday: Intermediate/Advanced Mountain Bike Ride at the Ant Hills
Houston Cycling Club
Tuesday, December 11, 2012        6:15 PM
15200 Memorial Dr, Houston, TX
Look for group and ask if it’s us! call me, Jeff @ [masked] if you have any questions or are going to be late.

This will be a medium to fast pace ride through the Ant Hills of Hershey Park! Bring WATER, spare tube/tire, snacks, etc…Helmets required. Call if you are going to be late so we can wait for you. Wheels rolling by 6:30! See you there

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Lindsey Four Endourance Race:
Tyler Bicycle Club
The TBC is hosting a four hour endurance mountain bike race, The Lindsey Four, at Lindsey Park on Saturday, January 5th at 10:00 am. You can compete individually or as a team. We will have music and food throughout the race. Tim McCellon is the race director for the Lindsey Four and you may contact him through email at Tim.mccellon@gmail.com, if you have any questions.
Registration has begun! Click the link below to download a registration form or go by Elite Bicycles or Simpson’s Adventure Sports and pick up a registration form. Also, the City of Tyler will be holding a ribbon cutting ceremony, prior to the race, at 9:30 am to formally open the trail.

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A bicyclist after my own heart. Just Monday I was daydreaming about the change from fall to winter and the start of the daylight getting longer each day.

Approaching the Solstice
by Steve A                DFW Point-to-Point

This week marks an annual milestone for cycling commuters in the DFW Metroplex. You see, this week marks the earliest sunsets of the year. While the moment that dawn officially appears will continue to appear later until well past the solstice, as of Friday, sunset will OFFICIALLY start appearing…

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Capture your biking adventures with the Bikepod
by Connor Livingston                www.techi.com

Cruising around on our bikes, exploring the great outdoors has become a great pastime for some of us, while others choose to use it as an environmentally friendly mode of transportation. If you own a smartphone or DSLR camera you can now capture your biking adventures, no…

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Texas Bike Clubs
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Ring in the holiday with fun runs, Jingle Bell bike ride
By Alissa Mejia                Corpus Christi Caller
It’s time to get out your Santa hats and antlers, dust off your bells, find your elf socks and charge your batteries. With Christmas run and ride season starting, you cannot only show your holiday sprit, but perhaps even burn off a few sugar cookies in the process.

…Jingle Bell 5-mile bike ride: 6 p.m. Dec. 11 at The Episcopal Church of Reconciliation, 4518 Saratoga Blvd. Cost: Entry fee is a donation to Bikes For Kids.

Tour one of Corpus Christi’s best decorated neighborhoods, and be part of the show yourself. A helmet, front and rear bike lights are required. Bike decorations and costumes are encouraged. An outdoor gathering with food and drinks will follow the ride. …

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Cross-country trip full of beautiful surprises
Jackson man completes lifelong goal of biking across U.S.
By Miller N. Resor, Jackson Hole, Wyo.        www.jhnewsandguide.com
Greg Smith’s Adventure Cycling group pedals along the highway outside Alpine, Texas, en route from San Diego to its destination in Florida. For Smith, the trip fulfilled a lifelong dream of biking across the country.

On Nov. 17, Greg Smith completed a lifelong goal by dipping the front tire of his road bike in the Atlantic Ocean two months after his back tire emerged from the Pacific.

Smith said he had always wanted to make a cross-country bike trip and finally this summer decided he would not put it off another year.

“I had talked about doing it with friends over the years, but it never happened,” he said. “This summer I…

…He had expected Texas to be a barren wasteland, “nothing but desert.” Instead he found the route —  that started in El Paso and passed through Del Rio, Austin and Navasota — to be the most beautiful section of the entire trip.

While staying at a hostel in El Paso, the group ate at a grungy…

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Help BikeTexas Get Ready for the 2013 Legislative Session
www.biketexas.org
My heart is heavy today. In the past two months, we’ve seen one cyclist death after another in Texas. Cyclists like Iris Stagner, who was a BikeTexas board member, a commuter, a racer, and a personal friend. Iris lobbied for Share the Road signs in Palo Pinto County and made a trip to the Texas legislature during the 2009 session to ask her representatives to support the Safe Passing Bill. Iris was a safe rider who obeyed traffic laws, but her life was tragically cut short in September when an inattentive driver struck her from behind. To date, the driver has faced no charges.

We all have stories like this one of a friend or loved one who did everything right but was still killed while cycling. Many Texas roads were not built with bicycles in mind, and worse, drivers are not being held accountable for killing cyclists. Like you and other cyclists across Texas, I am tired of the pain of losing friends. This fall, I’ve…

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OTC Christmas Party!
by mwilhelm                    www.oldtascosacycling.com
Rage-n-nugget writes “OTC Christmas party@the garden room@sunset center suite 79 @7pm, 12/11, the club will provide a smoked brisket, and we ask that you bring your favorite side dish or desert, drinks and beverages will be provided by Sun Adventure! White elephant gift exchange, limit 5$. ”

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Johnson Branch State Park
by Shawn McAfee                Texas Mountain Bike Trails
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L19L8CLbL3s
Johnson Branch mountain bike trail

Located on the north corner of Lake Ray Roberts Johnson Branch State Park is one of the more remote trails located in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. This trail is just across the lake from Isle Du Bois State Park, another challenging trail with many similar features.

The trail is very tight through the trees and fairly densely wooded singlerack, and large portions of it just like IDB are extremely rocky. While no individual section is “expert”, there are numerous climbs filled with very loose, rocky and rooty terrain. These sections are mostly found in the “red” section, they can be extremely challenging and will tire many riders out. Fortunately if you find yourself dragging too much at any point on…

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Tweets

https://twitter.com/BBQ44/status/276526910660554754

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