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Texas Bicycling News and Blog Digest March 23rd

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North Shore Trail – flower Mound, TX

alltrails.com

North Shore Trail is a 18 mile out and back trail located near Grapevine, Texas that features a lake and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking, mountain biking & walking and is accessible year-round.
Reviews: By Nathan R. – Don’t be intimidated by the mountain bikers. The northshore trail was originally an equestrian trail before the horses were chased off by the hikers. Now we find the mountain bikers are chasing off the pedestrians, but a few simple tips can make this a great trail for everybody. The local mountain bike club does a great job maintaining these trails. And over the past few years they have cut almost 10 miles of additional trail making it a one way trail the whole way. When you run or hike here, go in the same direction as the bikes. This will more than cut in half the number of bikers you encounter. If you’re running it’s easier for a Bike to pass if you’re going in the same direction. Good bikers can pass if you hug the side of the trail without either party having to stop. Generally I don’t…

Giant Regional On-Road Team

shared Lee McDaniel’s photo.

Bret and El Gato (Jonny) are in Corsicana, TX this weekend for the Arthrosurface Tour of Corsicana. Great shot of Bret where he is often found… off the front!!

Rosedale Ride Sam, Greer and Julie Houston finish

by Brad Houston

Rosedale with VC

Great Turnout for the 2014 Rosedale Ride

violetcrown.org

There were 40 plus Violet Crown Club riders at the start of yesterday’s Rosedale Ride. It was perfect weather for the event and a good ride. Just before the ride, Immediate VC Past President, Andy Austin, talked to the crowd about Violet Crown’s long history with the Rosedale Ride. He mentioned that Bill Reams was an officer of the club when VC riders Kenny Lloyd and Richard Whittington along with their friend Al Godfrey first organized the ride 20 years ago. Bill…

Texas Challenge rolls out Sunday morning

Ready to Ride 2 Recovery        www.ktsm.com

After a day of full traveling we arrived at the Ride 2 Recovery registration and orientation, along with 200 healing Soldiers and Veterans from across the country. Seven of the participants are either active duty Soldiers currently serving at Fort Bliss or Veterans from El Paso.
(SFC Lori Kuzcmanski and our luggage as we wait for the shuttle at the airport)
The R2R mechanics quickly assembled all of our bicycles and fitted them to each cyclist before we toted them to our hotel rooms at the Marriott Greenspoint in…

EP Cyclists

EP Cyclists, helping El Paso cyclists ride faster & farther in a friendly amiable group, today’s ride was no exception. This Thursday we are challenging all EP Cyclists Women to come and ride in the womens pull ride. It will be a Intro/Intermediate control ride but women will pull all 27 miles, men can join the ride but they will have to ride in the back and…

Texas Challenge, Day 1: Houston–College Station

Ride 2 Recovery

This year’s UnitedHealthcare Texas Challenge featured a new start in the Gulf Coast town of Houston. It’s the hometown of Clay Hunt and we were excited to have Clay’s parents send off the R2R warriors as they headed out of town towards Aggieland, 85 miles away.
The towns along the new route have really embraced Ride 2 Recovery and are extremely happy to see the ride come through their area for the first time. Even though there is not as much support from the American Legion Auxiliary as…

Corinth Cycling – Tour of Corsicana

Yellow Jackets up front. #ArthrosurfaceTourofCorsicana

Corinth Cycling

Incredible weekend in Corsicana Texas racing with my teammates and friends. We worked through Texas chip seal, wet brick paved streets downtown, high winds, rain and hail today…all to land two of our boys on the podium! Robert Baatz and…

Volunteers Clear New Mountain Biking Trail At Sherman Park

By Alex Belser, Reporter

SHERMAN, TX — City officials say tough budget times mean Sherman doesn’t have the money to start up new park projects, but that didn’t stop something new from opening this weekend.
Volunteers stepped in to form the city’s first-ever mountain biking trail.
During the week, he’s a nurse anesthetist at TMC, but on the weekends, Sherman resident Jason Griffin hits the trails, often traveling to bike races around the state. But there wasn’t any…

Steam N Wheels Ride, Abilene

West Texas Recumbent

Drove to Abilene for my first Steam N Wheels.
Met up with some of our club members.
It was very windy and seemed to be all up hill 🙁
I ended up 49th of 84 and 7th out of 11 in my age bracket.
Age bracket? 90% of the people that came in before me was my age or older……. where are the young people?  The oldest gentleman ahead of me was 69 and he came in…

“Ride 2 Recovery” treks from Houston to Arlington (Video)

newsfixnow.com

HOUSTON, TX – More than 200 veterans and their supporters gathered in north Houston for the 2014 UnitedHealthcare “Ride 2 Recovery.”
It’s a weeks worth of riding starting out in Houston and after 490 miles of pedaling riders end up at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX.
Seeing our wounded heroes conquering their physical challenges is inspiring, but sometimes it’s…

Beater Bikes

Bike Noob

Earlier this week, a favorite blog of mine, “Lovely Bicycle,” wrote about beater bikes. Velouria’s angle was to spotlight a new line of inexpensive bikes with the brand name, “Beater,” that are designed to fill the same role as a run-of-the-mill beater bike would fill.
And it got me thinking — I don’t really have a beater bike of my own, do I? If I do need a bike I can hop on for a trip to the store, or to run an errand or two, or to serve as transportation in the rain, I don’t really have anything to fill that role, do I?
And then it occurred to me — I do. I’ve got that mountain bike. The one I never ride. The one I put the rear rack on because I was going to…

Driveway March 20th 2014

ComancheRacing

Chalk Hill Trail will show off little-known part of Dallas

By TOM BENNING, Staff Writer        www.dallasnews.com

A proposed hike-and-bike trail through one of Dallas’ most scenic, and often overlooked, areas is heading down the path to construction.
Dallas County commissioners last week OK’d $3.7 million to help build the Chalk Hill Trail, approving an agreement with the city of Dallas to develop the four-mile corridor in west Oak Cliff.
The trail, long a focus for County Commissioner Elba Garcia, would follow an abandoned railroad line north from DART’s Westmoreland Station to around the intersection of West Davis Street and Chalk Hill Road.
Runners and cyclists are still a few years away from…

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In 1999 I had a burning desire to create a web site focused on Texas bicycling. Over the years this web site has existed many people have visited. As I think of information I need to bicycle I add them to the web site.

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