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Texas Bicycling News and Blog Digest March 24th

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Cedar Hill dedicates its first paved hiking and biking trail

By Matt Peterson        thescoopblog.dallasnews.com

The city dedicated its first paved hiking and biking trail in a ceremony Monday.
The three-mile Red Oak Creek Trail connects several schools, neighborhoods and city parks and recreational facilities. RoeschCo Construction built the trail at a cost of $2.4 million.
The trail features several entry points, one of which is on…

Dallas Looks At Bringing Bike Share Program To Fair Park

by Brian New        DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM)

Dallas may soon join other Texas cities in starting a bicycle sharing program, but the city’s initial proposed investment, some say, is hardly a confident endorsement of the idea.
Earlier this month, the Dallas Park and Recreation Board approved $125,000 for non-profit Friends of Fair Park to install and operate a bicycle rental program at Fair Park.
The $125,000, if approved by city council, would pay for a network of 15-20 bicycles.
Other cities, such as Fort Worth, have made larger initial investments in bike-sharing programs.
Last year, the City of Fort Worth spent more than a million dollars on installing the…

30+ miles around White Rock Lake

Dallas Cycling Trail Riders and Weekend Pub Crawlers

Saturday, March 29, 2014    10:00 AM
Dallas Bike Works
4875 W Lawther Dr, Dallas, TX (map)
I know a few of us are training for the upcoming MS-150, and I have a separate charity century the weekend before that. I need to get some serious training miles in! Depending on the weather, I’m aiming for at least 30 this Saturday. I may stick around and do even more, if that interests anyone. This will be a moderate…

Spring Trail Work Day on Northshore

Dallas Off-Road Bicycle Association

Sunday, March 30, 2014    8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
MADD Shelter – Murrell Park
4542 Green Oaks Drive, Flower Mound, TX (map)
Spring Trail Work Day on Northshore! 😀 You’ve been asking to help, you enjoy being outside with friends, and every time you pass a trail steward working on the trail you feel kinda guilty. 😳 We don’t mind, we love this stuff! Come on out to work, bond with the trail, and then ride like the wind after putting in a…

DORBA Beginner Clinic

Dallas Off-Road Bicycle Association

Sunday, April 13, 2014    9:30 AM
River Legacy Park
703 N.W. Green Oaks Blvd, Arlington, TX (edit map)
There will be a beginner clinic on Saturday the 15th of April 13th at 9:30am at River Legacy Park in Arlington. There is a “classroom” for about an hour or so, a mini-skills workshop for 30 minutes, and then a ride of an hour or more. So count on approximately 2.5 to 3 hours. The clinic is recommended for riders new to the sport. If you have never ridden a mountain bike before or have just started out riding, then this is for you. Beginner Clinics will consist of basic instruction including…

All Level Ride @ Walnut Creek Spring/Summer hours

The Austin Mountain Bikers Meetup Group

Sunday, March 30, 2014    9:30 AM
Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park
12138 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX (map)
We set up under the trees in the parking lot near the swimming pool.
New Spring/Summer hours to help when the weather gets warmer.  Starting 3/9 we go to 9:30 am.
We know that this time change doesn’t work for everyone so we hope you considering hosting a ride for yourself and those who might want to ride at a different time or on a different day.
You do NOT have to be a ARR member to attend most club riders. You will need to sign a waiver and wear a helmets when riding.
This is for all levels of riders, which will break into groups according to ability. Beginners are welcome, and there will be no…

Ride to the Jazz Era Sunday Social

Bike Friendly Oak Cliff

The Jazz Era Sunday Social is coming up this Sunday! An afternoon of jazz and lawn games, dancing and of course bicycling and picnicing, presented by the  Art Deco Society of Dallas and Dallas Heritage Village.
Pull out your Sunday best – we’re heading to a Jazz Age picnic social
Sunday March 30th, 12-4pm
If you know the annual Lawn Party on Governor’s Island in New York City, you have an inkling of what this will be like. The Singapore Slingers will be performing, and Elaine Hewlett from the Rhythm Room will be teaching us some…

Tour of Corsicana Recap

Chris Deg

This past weekend I set out with Jan and Monte from FCS Cycling to Corsicana, Texas for The 2014 Arthrosurface Tour of Corsicana. This weekend I was going to race my legs out, see what needs to be worked on, and leave with a smile. I did just that, and then some. Stage 1 was at 9AM Saturday morning, an individual time trial for less than 5 miles, I have always hated TT’s so I figured I would just go and give it my best. The roads were ruff, really ruff, but that didn’t stop anyone, for 4.76 miles it was just you and the road, it was 1 direction…straight. It was great weather, the wind was a cross tail basically the whole way there with an uphill finish. I don’t like TT’s, at all, but when I like them they are longer, between 10 and 20 miles favor me the best, so I can get a good tempo going and just pound it out. The short, sprint ones don’t really work in my favor, no biggie though. I was able to knock the race out in 12 minutes and 12 seconds, I was really happy with that, till I saw my result, 6th place, 1 minute and 15 seconds off from the leader…I knew I would have to make the time up in the road race, because it wasn’t going to…

RBM Recumbent Ride March 2014

Richardson Bike

Watch Joel Hernandez lead this awesome morning ride of 18 recumbent cyclists!
Join us the last Saturday of every month at 8:30 am for the Richardson Bike Mart Recumbent Ride!

Cadence Cyclery opens second location as Giant Partner Store

by BRAIN Staff        www.bicycleretailer.com

HIGHLAND VILLAGE, Texas (BRAIN) — Dallas-Fort Worth area retailer Cadence Cyclery recently celebrated the opening of its second store, located 32 miles from its original location in McKinney, Texas. The new 4,000 square-foot shop opened as a Giant Partner Store in late November.
Giant USA’s retail merchandising specialists worked with owner Chad Plumlee in the design of the store’s retail space to select flooring, lighting, wall coverings, graphics and messaging to highlight both the Cadence Cyclery and Giant brands.
“The nice, clean space Chad found provided us all with the opportunity to build a store and give Cadence Cyclery a new and exciting way to showcase bicycles and connect with the community,” said…

Ride 2 Recovery Rolls through College Station

www.kbtx.com

COLLEGE STATION, Texas Hundreds of wounded vets and their supporters from around the country converged in College Station Monday morning, gearing up for a 100-mile bicycle journey.
The ride from College Station to Georgetown was the second day of a ride around Texas that began in Houston on Sunday. Before the week is out, the group will have travelled around 590 miles.
Ride 2 Recovery, a group dedicated to improving the health and wellness of healing heroes worldwide, puts on the ride and others like it each year.
Nathan Green, who served with the U.S. Air Force in both Iraq and…

Texas Challenge, Day 2: College Station–Georgetown

Ride 2 Recovery

Day Two of the UnitedHealthcare Texas Challenge is the longest day of the Challenge and the first Century Day of the year. The continued improving weather kept the spirits of the riders up despite the long road ahead.

Project HERO Day is always an exciting part of any Challenge. We are able to showcase an important program within R2R and nearly all of the 50+ first time riders come from the Project HERO program and…

Thursday Criterium

Dropbars Productions

New video I edited. Its more about testing the new camera and Variable ND filter. I missed most of the race on count of the card filling up in about 18 minutes. Shot in Raw and Graded in DaVinci Resolve.
Enjoy!
http://vimeo.com/89770954

Injured veterans take part in 490-mile cycling journey

by KVUE News

GEORGETOWN — More than 200 injured vets rode into Georgetown Monday afternoon on a two-wheel ride through Central Texas to help injured veterans recover.
They are taking part in the 490-mile Ride to Recovery from Houston to Fort Worth. On Monday, they traveled more than 100 miles from College Station.
The ride is part of a program to help…

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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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