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Daily Texas Bicycling News April 23rd

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Memorial ride scheduled for beloved cyclist fatally struck by vehicle

Dan Santella | The Monitor


EDINBURG — Spurred on by the victim’s wishes, friends of an admired University of Texas-Pan American employee killed this past Thursday are planning a bike ride in his honor for Thursday morning.
Bike riders with the “5AM Wake-Up Ride” Facebook group have organized a “Memorial Ride for Eddie Arguelles” scheduled for 5 a.m. Thursday. As of shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday evening, the ride had 182 pledged attendees. Tony Vargas, a friend of Arguelles who is helping to set up the event, said that organizers are working with police departments from…

Double Lake Trailwork Day

GHORBA

Event category: General
Trail: Double Lake Recreation Area
Sunday, April 27, 2014 – 9:00am
Trail workday Sunday, 4/27, 9am. Meet at the DL Trailhead parking area. Goal is to finish clipping back the race course trails. Free entry for trail workers. I’ll have…

Shifting gears

By Jennifer Reiley        www.thebatt.com

Student feedback sought on bike issues to guide improvement
Transportation Services is seeking student feedback about A&M’s bicycle-pedestrian infrastructure in hopes of improving it in the fall.
Transportation Services contracted Alta Planning and Design, a company focused on improving bicycle and pedestrian layouts for communities, on April 14. Ron Steedly, manager for alternative transportation, said they are offering on-campus forums to provide students with the opportunity to voice concerns about the current biking situation at Texas A&M.
Steedly said Transportation Services was motivated to start developing a plan now, based on the expected growth of campus with student housing developments near campus and the…

Best Bike Shop in the North Texas area

dallas.cityvoter.com

Biking enthusiasts are very particular about their choice in bike shops. Who do you trust with your ride? Voting starts soon! Voting for the Dallas A-List starts April 28 at 8:00AM. Browse all 145 categories and let us know if any of your local favorites are missing.

Group Bike Ride

www.beaumontcvb.com

April 26, 2014
Every Saturday    8:00 am
Colonade Shopping Center
6410 Phelan Blvd
Beaumont, TX 77706
409-656-3372
Three levels of ride, fast-greater than 20 mph; medium, generally a no drop ride 17-20mph; no drop 10-15 mph. Rides generally last 3-4 hours through the countryside around Beaumont and surrounding communities. The no drop group meets closest to Elena’s restaurant at the Colonade Shopping center, the others in front of Goodwill. Rides may start later when weather is colder. Helmets required.

Moonlight Madness Bicycle Ride

www.beaumontcvb.com

May 09, 2014
Registration, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm. Ride starts at 10:00 pm.
Early Registration: $8 w/out shirt, $15 w/shirt. After May 4th: $12 w/out shirt, $20 w/shirt.
Rogers Park
1455 Dowlen Road
Beaumont, TX 77701
409-860-5065 or 409-838-3613
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Enjoy live entertainment, door prizes, and family fun. Helmets and lights are recommended. Beginner level, 14-miles. Course includes rest stops. Rollerbladers welcome. Sponsored by: Parks & Recreation, Beaumont Police Department, Bicycle Sports.

The Art of Acquiring (& Keeping) Sponsorships

By Ted Arnold      texasbikeracing.com

I’ve been lucky to work at and ride for great shops and sponsors, and occasionally work with or for (not ride for) some pro teams. With time, I got to see almost all sides of the sponsorship equation at almost every level. I saw a lot of proposals and pitches—plenty of bad ones, and plenty of good ones. It made me think it was time to write a sponsorship brain dump. Maybe the following advice will improve your current relationship with sponsors, or will help you put together a plan. However, if you don’t want to put in the work it takes to plan ahead, build long-term relationships, and keep your deal going, then I can stop your pain now by saying read no further.
Think about your actions this way: if you treat people well, it becomes your legacy. For those who want to look at the long term, what I’d advocate is a steady, thought-out approach. At the end of the…

Push on to place more bike racks in Heights

By Flori Meeks        www.chron.com

Push on to add more parking for cyclists

Heights resident Mitch Cohen has placed two racks along 19th Street this year that can each store about 10 bikes and will continue raising money for more.
“I haven’t exactly taken over the area with bike racks, but it has been fun,” said Cohen, who manages the Heights’ First Saturday Arts Market and began working on the rack project about two years ago.
This grassroots effort was inspired while Cohen and other organizers of White Linen Nights in the Heights were cycling from business to business in…

The Austin Mountain Bikers Meetup Group

Austin, TX
3,937 Mountain Bikers

Meet other local mountain bikers to organize rides, review trails, gear and trade tips. All skill-levels welcome. We’ll try to organize rides that fit all experience levels. M…

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The Warm Up

Bike Noob

I went out Sunday morning with a group I’d never ridden with before. We left from Mellow Johnny’s bike shop in downtown Austin and headed south. Four of us showed up for the so-called “Mid-Century Ride,” named because you had to be at least 50 years old to take part. We four were all men, all more than 60 years old.
The ride leader took us on a circuitous route to get out of downtown. We wound our way through tight turns, almost stopping, almost putting feet down. Finally, after taking some sidewalks through a city park, we reached a north-south residential street, and could ride freely.
Except that I noticed something. Our free riding was still pretty slow riding. I understood that we had to ride slow getting out of downtown — it was just too congested with the turns and the pedestrians. But…

A new day for BikeHouston

Spoke & Word

BikeHouston makes progress in first quarter of 2014
BikeHouston is gaining momentum. With the arrival of Executive Director Michael Payne there is activity on all fronts. Upon arrival it was recognized that BikeHouston needed a clear campaign for communication with the Mayor and City Council. In mid January BikeHouston launched its Goal Zero Fatalities Campaign. Thanks to the efforts of Advisory Board member Dan Morgan and a diverse group of cyclists who have taken their time to speak to City Council we have made good progress. On March 26 Mayor Annise Parker announced that the City of Houston would partner with BikeHouston to implement the Goal Zero Fatalities Plan. This represents a major step forward for Houston cyclists.
Three words are center in this campaign: Engineer, Educate and Enforce. The Mayor has stated the city’s commitment to…

Bell County: Police Memorial Bike Ride Honors Fallen Officers

www.kwtx.com

KILLEEN (April 23, 2014) The “We Remember” Memorial Bicycle Trek Across Texas passes through Killeen and Belton Friday as a group of San Antonio police officers makes stops in every community in Texas where officers have died in the line of duty.
The officers will spend Thursday night in Killeen and then will ride Friday morning, with a police escort, to the Killeen Police Department, where they will present a memorial flag to the family of slain Officer Bobby Hornsby at around 8 a.m.
Hornsby, 32, died in a shooting in July 2013 at a Killeen apartment complex.
He was a four-year veteran of the Killeen Police Department and a member of the…

Rocky Tuesday. Barton Creek Greenbelt. Intermediate Pace. Hard Terrain.

Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014, 5:00 PM

Barton Creek Greenbelt – Trail’s End/Hill of Life
1710 Camp Craft Rd Austin, TX

7 Mountain Bikers Went

Note the 5pm start time.  The next four weeks will be the same start time due to my work schedule.  We will drop back to 6pm or so for the four weeks that follow.This is not a ride for beginners or even budding intermediates.  The terrain is rocky, dangerous, difficult.  This is a drop ride meaning that if you are unable to keep pace, you may be …

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Ride into spring with Tyler’s bicycle trails

by Kristen Chapman Reporter        www.ketknbc.com


Tyler, Tx ( KETK) — The Texas Trails Network honored the city of Tyler’s Parks and Recreation Department with the “Great Texas Two Step Award”.This award was presented for the development of the “Lindsey Park Mountain Bike Trail’.
KETK spoke with Stephanie Rollings from Tyler’s Parks and Recreation, who said, “It’s all about making a quality of life better here in Tyler you know at the least cost to the taxpayers”. The 10 mile trail was completed in January and constructed entirely by volunteers. Rollings said, “We worked with multiple partners in that project. The Tyler Bike Club, the County Court at Law, the county had a lot to do with it. They provided a…

Young Gun in NC : a Texas Junior’s Crit Report

by Chris Degenaars        texasbikeracing.com

Chris is 15 years old and races for the Park Place Development team. Follow him on Twitter @ChrisDeg18.
This past Friday I competed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina for my last time here in NC at the WSCC Amateur races Friday morning. We arrived Thursday evening to pre-ride the course and get settled in…although the Strava link that was given, was inaccurate, we did our best to follow it. The course was 1.4 miles, so more of a circuit than a criterium, had one U-turn and one roundabout. There was a quick (semi-steep) uphill coming out of a downhill, tight U-turn then it tapered out to a slight incline for another 500 or so meters, flattening out far back from the roundabout to turn into a downhill, then an uphill finish about 300 meters after the roundabout. The slight uphill finish favored us juniors who had restricted…

MAY IS BIKE MONTH: CELEBRATE WITH US!

League of American Bicyclists

Whether you bike to work or school; ride to save money or time; pump those pedals to preserve your health or the environment; or simply to explore your community, National Bike Month is an opportunity to celebrate the unique power of the bicycle and the many reasons we ride.
Established in 1956, National Bike Month is a chance to showcase the many benefits of bicycling – and encourage more folks to giving biking a try! Here are some important national dates for May this year:
May 7: Bike to School Day
May 11: Cyclofemme
May 12-16: Bike to Work Week
May 16: Bike to Work Day
May 21: Ride of Silence

Bent Wheel Bash

TMBRA.org

April 12 & 13
Buck Creek Trails/Police Academy
Abilene, TX
Results

HBC Urban Challenge Ride Ride

Houston Bicycle Club

Sunday 04/27/14 9:00AM
Distances: 40 to 45 miles
The Urban Challenge Rides are in-town group rides, faster and longer than the EZ Rides, each time taking you to different parts of the city. You should be able to maintain a pace of 15 mph for a distance of 40 to 45 miles, usually with one rest stop.

DATES Round and Round the Lake Ride

Dallas Area Tandem Enthusiasts

When:     May 21, 2014 06:15 PM
Where:     Alfonso’s Italian Restaurant – Dallas
Ride Start: Alfonso’s Italian Restaurant, 718 N Buckner (at Northcliff), Dallas
Meet Time: 6:00 PM
Ride Time:  6:15 PM
Ride Leaders:  Ernie & Regina Coose
Distance: Two loops around White Rock Lake
We’ll saddle up in Alfonso’s parking lot, then take Northcliff to the lake. We’ll ride two clockwise loops around the lake, in a DATES group or at a pace of your own. After the ride, please join us at Alfonso’s for…

ARTCRANK: Austin

by djcurtin            Bicycle Sport Shop’s Offical Cycling Blog

Are you ready for ARTCRANK? Do you know what ARTCRANK is? Rather than explain it to you, Patrick Murphy, ARTCRANK’s Media Director got us the lowdown from the Founder and Creative Director of the show, Charles Youel. In short, ARTCRANK is an exhibition of bicycle-inspired posters that showcases talented local artists and lets visitors purchase affordable, original artwork while also expanding the cycling community. You can find out more about ARTCRANK at artcrank.com and about this Friday’s show on Facebook here.
Here’s the backstory on ARTCRANK!
Answers by Charles Youel, Founder and Creative Director of ARTCRANK:
How did ARTCRANK start?
The seeds of the idea for the show started germinating in 2006. I was working for an advertising agency in Minneapolis, and basically just needed a creative outlet that didn’t involve clients, budgets, meetings….

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