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Daily Texas Bicycling News Digest April 30th

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BBVA Compass Stadium & Houston Dynamo Host Bike to the Game Event

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HOUSTON, TX (April 29, 2014)—Go Green By Biking To The Game May 11!  BBVA Compass Stadium, an AEG Facility, and the Houston Dynamo will host a Bike to the Game event on Sunday, May 11th.  Fans are encouraged to go green with an alternative method of transportation to the stadium to see the Houston Dynamo take on Real Salt Lake at 6 p.m.
Participants will meet at The Phoenix on Westheimer at 2 p.m. for the informal bike ride to BBVA Compass Stadium guided by No Promises Cycle Club. Pre-game food and drink specials will be available.  Additional bike racks will be available at the Methodist Gate and at SoccerFest.  Bike helmets are permitted inside the stadium.
A special $100 Bike to the Game ticket package features 4 ticket to the game + 4 tickets to the Bud Light beer garden.  Groups of 10 can access a $250 ticket package, which includes…

Bike MS kicks off Saturday in North Texas

By: Lauren Przybyl        www.myfoxdfw.com


DALLAS – This weekend thousands of people will take part in a huge bike ride, including a Lake Highlands man who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in his 30s.
About four years ago, 39-year-old Jim Casey’s life took a drastic turn.
“I noticed I was having some tingling in my hands and I was starting to having trouble running. My left leg wasn’t firing. I tripped on a couple of things,” he said.
Shortly afterward he was diagnosed with MS, a disease that causes the immune system to attack the…

Hot Rocks Bike Race

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Hot Rocks is an annual cycling event put on by the Rockwall Rotary Club. Proceeds from the ride benefit Rotary college scholarships. The ride attracts all levels of riders from aggressive to children and offers 3 mi and 6mi kids loop, 13 mi, 23 mi, 40 mi, and 63 mi (100k) courses. Volunteers provide rest stops every 8 to 10 miles serving drinks, ice and fruit. New this year is a family-friendly 3-mile (5k) kid’s loop and 6mi kid’s loop with a rest stop at the half-way point; families with young children can ride the loop multiple times to create the length that best suits them. All entrants receive…

How to Succeed at Bike Warranties

By Ted Arnold        texasbikeracing.com

I talk a lot about being a lurker on internet bicycle forums and how to use them to learn about brands and customers. The other day, I saw a thread about people’s frustrations with bike warranties that struck a cord; it was a thread that was a carbon copy of so many others I’d seen just like it. I wanted to challenge these negative comments as someone who has spent years at a shop as a salesperson, buyer, bike nerd, and social media guy. The whole subject of shops and good service is a huge slippery slope, and the warranty even more so.
Here are some tips to help you deal with bike shops and warranties. Every situation is unique, so the tips are general ideas that may apply or not, but at a minimum, they’ll hopefully help you…

Rally for Respect kicks off National Bike Month

by TINA SHIVELY / KVUE News and photojournalist KENNETH NULL


AUSTIN — Austin’s cycling community is kicking off National Bike Month a day early with a new campaign, the Rally for Respect.
Please Be Kind to Cyclists is partnering with other Austin cycling groups and CapMetro to get out information on how drivers can safely share the road with cyclists. As part of the Rally for Respect, 20 buses will carry infographics of Austin’s Safe Passing Law. Cyclists say with Austin growing the way it is, obeying the…

ARR Trail Steward Meeting

Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 7:00 PM

Blue Corn Harvest Bar and Grill
700 E Whitestone Blvd Ste 204 Cedar Park, TX

5 Mountain Bikers Went

What: Trail Steward meeting (for all ARR Trail Stewards, ARR Members, and interested members of the cycling community)When: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 from 7:00PM to 9:00PMWhere: Blue Corn Harvest Bar and Grill, 700 E. Whitestone Blvd, Suite 204, Cedar Park, Texas 78613,[masked]What: We will be updating all the Trail Stewards on changes to the…

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

Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 5:00 PM

Barton Creek Greenbelt – Regents Trailhead
3912 Travis Country Circle Austin, TX

2 Mountain Bikers Went

Its time for the nastiest sub-12 mile route anywhere this side of four hundred miles. Lots of chunk, a couple of big climbs, and yes rocks.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 budd…

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Dallas doesn’t need a bicycle helmet law

by Rachel Stone        lakewood.advocatemag.com


As a vehicular cyclist in Dallas, I say a lot of Hail Mary’s. Thankfully, knock wood, praise the Lord, I’ve never been injured more seriously than a sprained wrist, which was my own fault.
But I have been brushed by a DART van, hit by an AT&T van (all it did was leave a me-sized dent in the guy’s quarter panel) and knocked over by a witless Chevy Suburban driver passing on the right. Not to mention the many times I’ve plumb fallen over onto the hot pavement because I am kind of a ding-dong. Ask anyone who rides a bike a lot, and they’ll have at least that many tales of…

Kidical Mass rides again

BikeHouston

This Sunday, May 4, at 11.00 am BikeHouston will lead a Kidical Mass ride beginning on Westheimer just west of Hazard. Lots of space thanks to Sunday Street HTX which will open up the street for cycling.
Kidical Mass is a legal, safe and fun bike ride for kids, kids at heart, and their families. The first ride was held in April 2008 in Eugene, Oregon and has now spread across…

Ft Davis Hammerfest – Race Story

The Violet Crown Sports Association

Borrowing a line from Delbert McClinton, I had a real good time. Went with my old buddies and fellow 60+ guys John Bartle and Rick Hall. After the race was shut down due to wildfires two years in a row, and was not promoted last year, turn out was much lower than it used to be (only about 100 total), so a number of categories were combined. We 60+ guys did not mind racing with the women. First stage from town to McDonald Observatory sorted out quickly when we hit the big climbing. Bartle, Bain, and John Gordon climbed away, with Gordon first, Bain second and Bartle third. I was 4th, Rick 5th, and a strong, lovely woman from Mexico finished with us. Our finish was just before the last several kilometers of 12 – 14% pitches, which was both disappointing and let me beat Rick in the sprint rather than trying to stay with him up the hardest climbing.
The afternoon’s stage was another RR – only 18 miles, mostly flat, but straight into 30 mph headwind with gusts to 40 mph; took an hour and a half of hard riding with good cooperation amongst the old guys while the women sheltered behind us, and 20 minutes of easy riding to…

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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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