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Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 27th

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An Infrastructure for Cruisers, Racers, Mountain Bikers, Commuters, and BMX Tricksters: Peter Muessig’s veloCity
Architecture, Infrastructure
by Sara C. Rolater            offcite.org

Anyone who’s stalled in Houston’s early evening sea of brake lights might not be inclined to think we have room for an entirely new transportation infrastructure. But Peter Muessig has envisioned a provocative future between the lines of Houston’s urban grid. His graduate thesis for the Rice School of Architecture, “veloCity: Mapping Houston on the Diagonal,” reconceives the Space City and oil capital via the bicycle, which Muessig uses as a “versatile tool…

BikeTexas Releases State-Specific Benchmarking Report
By Mary Lauran Hall            www.peoplepoweredmovement.org

A new BikeTexas report modeled after the Alliance for Biking & Walking’s national Benchmarking report sets baselines for walking and biking policies, infrastructure and programs in the Lone Star State’s largest cities.

While the Alliance report examines biking and walking in the 51 most populous cities in the United States, the Texas study examines the…

Nobody Beats The Wiz
Corinth Cycling

After a great weekend of racing in Waco at the OMNI Omnium Stage Race, the Corinth Cycling/Harden Dental team is now sitting in 2nd place overall in the 40+ Texas Cup Competition.

Derek Whisenhunt won the time trial and placed second in both the crit race on Saturday and the circuit race on Sunday to capture the overall…

Texas Cup Action — Waco OMNI Omnium
txbra.org

Attack and counter-attack by Elbowz Racing paid off at the Waco OMNI Omnium as they finished 1, 2, 3, 4 in the Pro/1/2 race. Photo courtesy of Lee McDaniel.

Tuesday Ride at Walnut Creek – Intermediate ride level
The Austin Mountain Bikers Meetup Group
Tuesday, April 2, 2013        5:30 PM
Walnut Creek Park
12138 N. Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX (map)
Back to normal summer hours.

Please be there and be ready to roll by 5:30 pm. We meet in the parking lot near the pool in the middle of the island.
Any question please call/text  me at 512 968 2079
Intermediate level ride with no drop.

Tuesday: Intermediate/Advanced Mountain Bike Ride at the Ant Hills
The Houston Mountain Bikes Meetup Group
Tuesday, April 2, 2013        6:15 PM
Terry Hershey Park
15200 Memorial Dr, Houston, TX (map)
Look for my red Jeep with bike rack on back. Or call me, Jeff @ 713-459-4622

This will be a medium/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. …

Big Ring Challenge
By myles        Cycle Progression
Like every other TMBRA race this season The Big Ring Challenge out in Houston this past weekend seemed to be no different.  Although our group was small this time around we were strong, here are some results:

Matt Gordon- 2nd Place PRO/Cat 1 men
Mason O’neal- 2nd Place Cat 1 40-49 with a bloody face!!
Jonathan Pattie- 3rd Place Cat 1 40-49
Tim Gray- 5th Place Cat 1 40-49
Conrad Steitz- 10th Place Cat 2 SS
Thanks to all who continue to push themselves and our shop in the team challenge!

East Texas road board votes to limit — but not ban — bikes
BY ADAM RUSSELL            tylerpaper.com
The North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority board voted Tuesday to limit bicycle access to Toll 49.

After an hour of discussion and two motions that failed by a vote and lack of a second, members voted 7-2 to allow bicycle access on Segments 1, 2 and 5, a 10-mile stretch connecting Texas Highway 155 near Noonday to Texas Highway 110 near Whitehouse.

Bicycles are prohibited on Segments 3A and 3B, from Texas Highway 155 to…

SCCCC: MSU Vuelta del Viento  – by Caden Burross
www.usacycling.org

Rebranded as the Vuelta del Viento, this year’s Midwestern State University race weekend definitely lived up to its name. Saturday morning began with a team time trial that was delayed by half an hour due to thunder, lightning, and inevitable rain. Once the storm had passed, the wind remained and the teams were off. MSU swept most categories, relinquishing wins only to the University of Oklahoma, in the Men’s C, and Abilene Christian, in the Men’s D.

The weekend’s road race followed shortly after the TTTs wrapped up and was something new for most racers. This year’s loop was freshly paved with 3/4 inch Chip-n-Seal, and for those unfamiliar with road construction, it basically resembles…

Transforming Houston With Bayou Greenways
Opportunity Urbanist
This week we have a guest post by Jen Powis, Advocacy Director for the Houston Parks Board.
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Houston is a sprawling, cosmopolitan city of over 650 square miles and 2.3 million people.  But thanks to the $166 million Parks Bond citizens passed last November, by 2020 Houston will also have over 150 miles of connected biking and walking paths along nearly 1,500 acres of new connected parkland, completely separated from cars.

The bond dollars will go toward completing a system of connected parks throughout Houston — a project known as Bayou Greenways 2020.  In general, Bayou Greenways are linear public parks along the major bayous flowing towards the Gulf of Mexico that connect many of Houston’s signature parks like Hermann Park or Eleanor Tinsley Park.  Much of the land along our bayous are either in the floodway or the floodplain, and thus…

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