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Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup January 27th

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WOOOHOOO!!! Rode my first century.
by Sharpshin        www.bikeforums.net
Well, 102.7 miles to be exact. Elapsed time start to finish twelve hours fifteen minutes; neither swift nor stylish but then I would imagine most folks ain’t packing fifty pounds on the bike when they try this neither.

Late start, 9:50 am on Saturday, meant I’d be finishing after dark IF I made it, but I’ve been riding a lot at night lately. Here’s the bike at the start, note the addition of Bontrager fenders, put on the night before.
Four miles in, heading east towards downtown San Antonio….

Pedernales Falls State Park Trail Building Day
The Austin Mountain Bikers Meetup Group
Sunday, February 9, 2014    9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Pedernales Falls State Park
2585 Park Road 6026, Johnson City, TX (map)
It’s a big park please click the map link below

Austin Ridge Riders trail building project to bring new trail at the park.
NO TRAIL BUILDING EXPERIENCE NEEDED! Austin Ridge Riders will provide tools & guidance for volunteers, as well as a prize raffle after the work. Volunteers get into the park for free on trail building days.
If it’s been a long time since you have built trail, or if you have never built trail, please give it a try. It’s very rewarding to see a…

Six retailers from Texas make the list.

Top multi-sport retailers named as triathlon conference opens
by BRAIN Staff        www.bicycleretailer.com
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (BRAIN) – The trade association Triathlon Business International and triathlon site Slowtwitch.com have named the top 50 multi-sport retailers in the U.S. They released the list Sunday as the two-day Triathlon Business International annual conference got under way here.

Slowtwitch publisher Dan Empfield compiled the retailer list, through a voting process that was weighted 80 percent on suppliers’ votes and 20 percent on votes cast by Slowtwitch readers.

Ballots with approximately 300 retailer names divided among nine geographic areas — …

Mountain bike race drew 100
www.lmtonline.com    (subscription required)
The festivities building up to the third annual Border Beer Fest on Feb. 1 continued Sunday with the Border Bike Challenge hosted by Pedalheads Laredo, a local cycling organization, at the Shiloh Bike Trails. The bike challenge was the first mountain…

Spring Fling (Cat 5 Crash!!!) 2014 De Leon Springs RR
Jose Cabrera
A crash on the last lap of the race took out about half of the field. I placed 2nd today!!!

Texas State Parks for Mountain Biking
By Danno Wise        about.com
Mountain biking has become very popular in Texas over the past couple of decades. Luckily for Texans and visitors to Texas, the Texas State Park system is home to some of the nation’s best mountain biking trails. Dozens of state parks feature trailways ranging from a couple miles to a couple hundred miles and include trail sections for every level of rider, from beginner to advanced. …

Rudolph’s Revenge and a fire at North Shore!
beardedwomenracing.org
The team’s 2014 season has been officially underway since December 2013, but through a few different race cancellations and postponements, we still hadn’t had a complete race with our participation until last Saturday, January 25th.
The Rudolph’s Revenge race was a 30 (or 40) mile race on the toughest singletrack in North Texas combined with super fast fire road. The 30 mile race took at least 2 hours to finish and covered roughly 1500 feet in elevation change. It had been postponed because of weather in December, but it officially was put into the books on Saturday.  Two of our new…

01/26/2014 CYPRESS/SPRING ROAD Close Passes
by James Webster
Close pass on a Sunday bicycle ride

Fm 1314 to route 242
Greenbridge dr to Research Forest to
Kuykendahl to Pinelakes Blvd to
TC Jester to Spring Cypress to
Barker Cypress to Huffmeister to
East Louetta to Mueschke

Had  headwind and leg cramps

Cyclist hit, killed
The Brownsville Herald
BROWNSVILLE — A bicyclist died early Monday after being hit by a vehicle, authorities said.
Police spokesman J.J. Treviño said a man in his mid-40s died at the intersection of Charlie Clark Drive and Old Highway 77 as a result of the accident.
The motorist remained at the accident scene, Treviño said.
It was not immediately clear…

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