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Texas Bicycling News Digest October 15th

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Weekend Group Rides Now Departing 8:00am

Corinth Cycling


As we move into fall and later sunrises, the weekend group rides will now depart at 8:00am beginning on Saturday, October 18th. Come out and ride with one of our groups.

White Oak Bayou – Moderate Pace Bike Ride

www.bayoucityoutdoors.com


We are meeting at Shelterwood and Wister at 9:30 AM.
This is a great chance to explore on of the nicer bike friendly paths in Houston. We will take the White Oak Bayou Trail to Antoine – out and back for a total of 17 miles. Pace: 13-15 mph. …

Chickasaw Woman to Rally Riders of the Pontotoc Pursuit

Chickasaw Nation


Sierra Welch, a Chickasaw and University of Texas senior, is shown somewhere in Canada during 2014’s Texas 4000 ride from Austin to Anchorage. More than $608,000 was raised in the fight against cancer. Ms. Welch will join efforts Oct. 18 to raise scholarship funds for the Chickasaw Foundation. …

Bicycle helmet giveaway slated for Oct. 25

www.yourglenrosetx.com

Does your child have a cool helmet to wear when biking, skateboarding, skating or riding a Razor? Stop by the Texas Medical Association’s Hard Hats for Little Heads helmet giveaway event on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in the Methodist Church parking lot.
Each child will receive a new helmet, and will learn how to make sure it fits properly. This event is sponsored by the Texas Academy of Family Physicians and Dr. Paul Schmidt.
Texas Medical Association’s Hard Hats for Little Heads program promotes exercise and teaches children and their parents about the importance of wearing a helmet when bicycling, in-line skating, skateboarding and riding scooters. The Texas Academy of Family Physicians provided…

Pedernales Falls State Park Trail Build & Swim or Ride

Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014, 8:00 AM

Pedernales Falls State Park
2585 Park Road 6026 Johnson City, TX

2 Mountain Bikers Went

Pedernales Falls State Park TRAIL BUILDING DayHELP GET THE TRAIL READY FOR CRANKSGIVING!  Flat Creek Crossing & Pedernales Falls State Park trails will both be part of the 2014 Cranksgiving!Austin Ridge Riders is building new purpose built mountain bike trail at Pedernales Falls State Park!NO TRAIL BUILDING EXPERIENCE NEEDED! Austin Ridge Riders…

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Bike ride to honor missing, exploited children

starlocalmedia.com

On Friday, the Denton County Sheriff’s Office welcomes the Inaugural Texas Ride for Missing Children to honor missing and exploited children.
The Texas Regional Office of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is holding the Ride for Missing Children, a 100K (62-mile) bike ride in Denton County to honor missing and exploited children and raise funds for prevention and education programs that help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation.
The Ride will begin at 8 a.m. at Lifetime Fitness, 3100 Churchill Drive in Flower Mound, with a…

Bus driver fatally hits bicyclist in southeast Houston, then drives off

By Dale Lezon        www.chron.com

More details have been released after a 56-year-old bicyclist died Wednesday morning in a hit-and-run traffic collision when a school bus hit him as he crossed a street in southeast Houston.
The incident occurred about 6:30 a.m. at 9000 Airport near Hansen Road, said Kese Smith, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department.
Smith said the bicyclist was identified as Bobby Brooks.
Brooks was riding his bicycle southbound on Hansen and entered the pedestrian crosswalk. A yellow school bus that was traveling northbound on Hansen made a right turn onto West Airport and hit him.
The school bus, Smith added, had a green light. The driver did not stop after the collision.
Brooks died at the scene.
Smith said it is unclear what company or…

BWR at Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day

beardedwomenracing.org


The first Saturday of October every year is the official Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day (TKMBD), as decreed by the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA).  This event is celebrated around the world including: Italy, Australia, South Africa, Canada, Malaysia, and Mexico. TKMBD celebrates the joy of riding in the dirt.
Here in North Texas, three trails celebrated TKMBD on Saturday, October 4, 2014.  Bearded Women Racing (BWR) volunteered at two of those events: Horseshoe (Grapevine, TX), and the NW Community Trail (Frisco, TX).
Horseshoe jointly conducted a DORBA (dorba.org) Beginner’s Clinic on Saturday, and they drew a total of 44 adults and 10 kids to the event.  Eight BWR members were on-hand to assist with set-up, the clinic, leading/sweeping rides, encouraging the kids, and…

Cyclist killed by alleged drunk driver in Harris Co.

By Dale Lezon        www.chron.com

A man has been accused of drunken driving after he hit a person pushing a bicycle along the service road of Interstate 10 in east Harris County Tuesday night.
The person died in the collision.
The incident occurred about 9:10 p.m. in the 15400 block of the outbound East Freeway service road near Patch, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said the victim was pushing a bicycle eastbound in the outside lane of the roadway when he failed to yield the right-of-way to a 2000 GMC Sierra pickup that was also traveling eastbound on the road. The pickup …

Biking for a living: Best job ever?

By Emily Spicer        blog.mysanantonio.com


I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear about the health effects of someone’s job, they’re never positive. “My job is making me fat.” “My job is giving me high blood pressure.” “My job gave me carpal tunnel,” “is ruining my eyesight,” “is killing my relationship with my family,” “Where’s the vodka?” etc.
Right?
So you can imagine my surprise one random day when I ordered lunch from The Bike Waiter and the delivery person, Koda Boulton — an acquaintance I had not seen in years — managed to convey in our two minutes of catching up before she dashed off to her next delivery how…

Bastrop to Round Top: My Bike Rules (my legs, too!)

by Mark        www.brothersbikeride.com

Tuesday October 14, 2014, 60 miles (97 km) – Total so far: 354 miles (570 km)
Guess which one of us didn’t have to walk up any hills today? Give up? Me and my awesome Bike Friday! It’s am amazing road bike, by far the most comfortable bike I own and the most dependable one on this trip and it takes only 30 minutes to assemble and even less to pack up. The baggage handlers in the airport can’t even break it.
Baxter State Park has the steepest hills we have encountered so far. More than 15% grade in some…

Bastrop to Round Top, TX – 15 Oct 2014

by Brian        www.brothersbikeride.com

Today we rode 60 miles in sunny and cloud-free skies.  We definitely had some hills, especially in Bastrop State Park at the start of the ride.  And we really didn’t have much traffic, until the very last road we were on, which was TX 159, which lead us into Round Top.  I didn’t see anything worthy of a video, but I did take lots of photos today.  Here they are: …

Day 4: Voices Carry

by SAG Lady        www.brothersbikeride.com

The Blanco Best Western is an unusual property. Its reviews on TripAdvisor are remarkably positive — a 4.9 rating and comments like “best Best Western ever!” and “Greatest hotel!” — so I was excited to stay there. It certainly had the most expensive and ornate loveseats of any Best Western I’ve known. …

Sunny Skies in Texas Bastrop to Round Top Another Pleasant 60 Mile Day

by Tim        www.brothersbikeride.com

Because of the unseasonably cold mornings and short mileage days, we are leaving the hotel a little past nine these last couple mornings. It warms up pretty quickly and we can shed the extra layers at our first rest stop.
Today we biked the first 18 miles or so thru Bastrop and Buescher State Parks on park roads that had almost no traffic. I think we passed 4 cars, all going in the opposite direction. Mark took his rest time by lying in the middle of the road. Go figure. Most of the time he sits in the middle of the road taking pictures.
We saw our first group of bikers this trip near Winchester this morning. They had biked from Austin and were on their way to Houston with a stay overnight in LaGrange. The road surfaces are definitely…

Sunny Skies in Texas

by Tim        www.brothersbikeride.com

We decided on a leisurely start this morning since we figured our ride was less than 50 miles. Every day the road surfaces have been improving and we seem to have less chip seal roads. Today’s roads were a combination of state roads and farm roads (FM). I don’t remember any ranch roads today. The county roads still seem to be dirt roads.
Oil derricks and tanks were frequent sites. And dogs chasing us. I have no idea how Mark came up with the photo of a lunging dog for his post. It wasn’t that bad but it seemed every house had a dog that barked and ran after us (mostly on the other side of a fence).
I was struck by the amount of construction going on in Bastrop, our destination today. We rode into…

Race Preview – Cyclocross Scuffle – 10.19.14

by joeyTWOwheels        texascx.com

Cyclocross Scuffle.
Cyclocross Scuffle.
Cyclocross Scuffle.
Say that ten times fast.
Sunday finds us in Elgin – the sausage capital of Texas – for day two of weekend three. Y’all are familiar with the Bat City Cycling offering, and past write-ups can be found here. The old course at Moya was a pure gem amongst those large pecan trees and subtle ravines – long dragstrip with flow.
Bat City is a legacy event (images from the race in 2012) and the team re-used Webberville for the…

Me & The Indian Ghosts & A Lot Of Other People At Village Creek Today

Durango Texas


Those are my handlebars overlooking the Village Creek Natural Historical Area’s Blue Bayou which is currently not blue, today around noon.
I was in that particular neighborhood due to needing to take possession of some vittles from Walmart and ALDI.
I got gas today, but did not call my mom. It was not convenient to call at the time I got the gas at the extremely cheap price of $2.89.
I remember way back in July of 2001, driving north to Washington, paying $1.19 in Amarillo, thinking that was high. Then I got off the…

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