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Texas Bicycling News Digest November 15th

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Cyclist to raise funds for Riders for Hope

thesouthern.com


Amputee cyclist Helgard Muller will fulfill his American dream of motivating and inspiring others by cycling 3,045 miles on a road bike (and his mountain bike for rough terrain) across the U.S.
Muller aims to raise $100,000 for people with disabilities. To his knowledge, he will be the first person with only one leg to do a Christmas Cycling Challenge. He will start in Los Angeles and set course for Ground Zero in New York City. He will be wearing his Riders For Hope golf-shirt and cap to raise awareness for persons with disabilities. …

… He will head from California to New York, travelling through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He believes the trip will take between six weeks …

Questions From a Houston Conservative

by L. Wayne Ashley        texasleftist.com

This was a real occurrence from the week, but it seemed worthy of being published.  Basically this person and I got into a rather heated discussion on Twitter, and he demanded that I answer this group of questions.  It’s quite apparent that he is something of a hard-line Conservative, but even still I gave the questions my best attempt.
The Twitter battle originated from the City of Houston’s decision to invest in cycling infrastructure through a variety of sources, so that is what these first few questions address.

How do you justify spending money towards bike trails before repairing our city streets, many of which are in horrible shape?
At no point have I ever suggested such a thing.  I simply stated that choosing between cycling and automobile transportation in a growing, changing city …

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Aftermass: Bicycling in a post-Critical Mass Portland | November 26th, 7:00 PM @ the Texas Theatre

Bike Friendly Oak Cliff


A rare opportunity to see the great bicycle documentary, Aftermass, and have the filmmaker, Joel Biel, in house for a Q and A at the end.  Also, you’ll get to see it at the legendary Texas Theatre here in Oak Cliff, who is …

BIKE MASTERS DH2014 MTB RACE

Bike Masters

THANKS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED AND OUR SPONSORS, VOLUNTEERS AND PARTNERS IN MAKING THIS RACE.


Colonel’s Double-‘Cross Weekend

by Chris Jennings

MU alumnus bikes from Columbia to Texas

By Tim Tai        www.columbiamissourian.com


Robert Christensen, an MU alumnus and Columbia resident, poses with his bicycle outside Kyle Field before a football game Saturday at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Christensen began bicycling from Columbia to Port Aransas, Texas, on Nov. 2 and stopped in College Station on Saturday to watch the game with …

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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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