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Texas Bicycling News Digest December 7th

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Cutting It Short

Bike Noob

With the end of the semester rapidly approaching, I’m spending more time at the university, putting out fires that flare up regularly as students realize they haven’t done enough to get that A they so covet. And with standard time bringing about darkness earlier than before, I’m not getting in a lot of riding at the moment. So when the weekend comes, I’m ready to saddle up and hit the road.
But this past weekend didn’t pan out the way I expected. On Saturday, I set out to do about 25 miles, just on roads in my immediate area. It’s easy to rack up the miles without straying too far from home, and that would keep me close to get back for the Christmas shopping my wife had planned for the afternoon.
But as I set out Saturday morning, I had a vague sense of unease — that something wasn’t …

Charity bicycle build 2014

USCG Air Station Houston, Texas

Coast Guard members from Coast Guard Air Station Houston help volunteers assemble a bicycle at a charity bike build Saturday in Houston, Texas. The bikes will be donated to service member families. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Dustin R. Williams

The tattoo Mom didn’t give me

Bill Horner III        www.sanfordherald.com

If that was indeed “Mom” we saw on the front stoop of Mom’s Tattoos, then she sure was an imposingly large mother.
Whoever she was, her girth made me think of Haystacks Calhoun, a wrestler I watched on TV as a kid, only without the mountain-man hair and unruly beard. The person in front of Mom’s was bald. And she was rotund in a profound way, to be sure. But what was most striking about her was that head – shaved, I assumed, and oversized, matching her physique, which she clothed with a flowing, floral-patterned dress of some kind.
Of course, I can’t be certain that was Mom. We never got close enough to tell for sure.
Why? It wasn’t her physical presence that scared Leonard and me away from Mom’s Tattoos, or at least gave us pause. And it wasn’t fear of Mom’s needles.
It was fear of our wives.
So Leonard and I came home from our epic Texas bicycle trip with lots of great stories – killer climbs in the Texas Hill Country, a rattlesnake crossing, Lance Armstrong-ish encounters, a too fast and nearly-blind group descent down a steep hill in the gathering darkness of downtown Austin, delicious organic chili, a run-in with …

2014 Bike Build – Another Roaring Success

Plano Bicycle Association

Cycling in the Wind

by Bill Cullins        Team San Angelo


Over the past several weeks, I’ve listened to cycling friends curse the ‘joy’ of battling 30 mile per hour or higher winds during their bike workouts.
I’ve also been doing my share of whining about the wind.
Like it or not, the wind does blow a lot here in West Texas so if you enjoy cycling (especially on the road) you have to deal with the wind, use it to your advantage where possible and look forward to those great days when the wind is light.
According to weatherspark.com, our highest average wind speed occurs in late March when we often see an average daily maximum wind speed of 20 mph.
Days with stronger winds gusting to 30 mph or more can happen during any month of the year.
Combine the actual wind velocity with the ‘apparent wind’ generated by a bike’s forward motion and — on a …

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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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