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Texas Cycling News December 22nd

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North Texas Bicycle Bonanza Christmas 2014 Display

by Brian Hooten

Transportation planners present west Houston recommendations

By Robin Foster        www.chron.com


West Houston has arrived as a destination, as its own city within the Bayou City, and that’s not just in the minds of people who live, invest and work here. It’s according to data mined by regional planners who will use it to improve multi-modal transportation for this high-growth area in the years to come.
“I can’t tell you we’re going to fix congestion here, but to have the city, the county and other entities here come to agreement on goals and priorities is a great accomplishment,” Clark Martinson says of final recommendations to arise in the West Houston Sub-Regional Planning Initiative. …

… The study also recommends building out the network of bike and pedestrian routes along the region’s bayous, drainage canals and utility easements and incorporating the recommendations in the city’s updated bicycle master plan. Consultants involved in the effort are grading routes based on stress level for bike riders.
“If you want people to bike, you …

Elves & More delivers 10,000 bicycles to deserving children in need

By Alexander Supgul, Digital Content Manager        www.myfoxhouston.com

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A non-profit organization delivers thousands of bicycles to deserving children in Houston who are classified as at-risk.
The Elves & More motto is “Changing lives – one bike at a time!”
The organization uses the bicycles as incentives to motivate at-risk children to be achievers in the schools that they attend while staying out of harm’s way.
Elves & More serves an eight-county area in which 330,000 children live in poverty.

Bicycle brunch ride from La Madeleine SMU area.

Saturday, Jan 3, 2015, 11:00 AM

Location details are available to members only.

17 Members Went

Hello group will be leading and easy paced brunch ride starting and finishing at La Madeline near SMU. Start at 11:00am and ride a through the Park cities Estates touring the homes. Hope to finish and have lunch at La Madeline afterwards. Distance 10 to 15 miles.Ride pace 10 to 12 mph.Good beginner or first timer ride.As always please inspect yo…

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Along Turtle Creek early Saturday, cyclists say a driver attacked first with car, then with fist

by Robert Wilonsky        crimeblog.dallasnews.com


Elle Natchke and her friend George Wendt were still “a little bruised, a little sore” Sunday morning, hours after they learned the hard way what many cyclists know well: Dallas isn’t very bike-friendly.
In addition to their contusions, they’re struggling with confusion. They want to know why the man they say hit them — first with his car, then his fists — was only ticketed for simple assault, a Class C misdemeanor, and released. A growing number of …

Making It Up As I Go Along

Bike Noob

I got the bike back from the shop a few days ago, and things are better. Not 100 percent better, but I can shift much smoother than before.
I park my bike in the garage, along the left wall. It’s right next to my car. Apparently, I smacked the derailleur with the car door when I opened it a couple of weeks ago, and it knocked the derailleur off kilter. The bike mechanic pointed it out to me when I picked up the bike, and he said he bent the derailleur back. So now I can shift from the small to the  big ring. There’s a little bit of clatter, but I’ve found that if I concentrate on easing up my pedal pressure, I can make a smooth shift with no noise.
I practiced that on Sunday’s ride, because I missed the club ride departure by a few minutes. And since this was an ad hoc ride, separate from the main ride that left an hour earlier, they weren’t going to …

Sunday Decmber 28th Roosevelt Ride

Hill Country Bicycle Touring Club

We’ll start at Roosevelt Park (331 Roosevelt Ave, San Antonio, TX 78210) at 8:30am on 12/28/14.  Wheels down at 8:30am, so arrive 15-30 minutes prior please. Bring your hybrid or mountain bike because we will be riding some of the dirt trails along the river that are part of the Mission trails.  Road bikes are welcome and you can stay on the concrete trail. We’ll ride down to Mission Espada and back. Ride Leaders Randy and Debbie.  For more information Randy may be reached at …

Bicycling in the Houston General Plan

BikeHouston

Houston is working on general plan – which is great news as it provides a strategic framework for how Houston operates. BikeHouston wants to make sure it includes a vision for bicycles. We would like to see Houston commit to improving Houston’s ranking from a Bronze city to a Gold city in 10 years. These rankings come from the League of American Bicyclists and take into account everything that makes a bicycle friendly community from infrastructure to culture to enforcement.

UH Students Peddling Bikes Designed for Houston

By Mike Emery        www.uh.edu


Throughout the fall semester, a team of University of Houston student designers learned the ins and outs of biking in Houston. They then built and branded bicycles specifically for the Bayou City.
Led by professor Mark Kimbrough, 10 students from UH’s award-winning Industrial Design Program were tasked with creating bicycles for Houston riders. They also created aRoad Bike business and brand around these bikes. During the semester of researching, designing and constructing these bikes, the student company, TAU, was founded.
“I presented to students the notion that U.S. downtowns are being redeveloped,” Kimbrough said. “Downtown infrastructures are being rebuilt with bike paths and bike lanes in mind. With that in mind, we formed a bike company that focused on …

Dec 22 (Day 356) A long but pleasant ride capped off with Harris’s sparrow!

Biking for Birds


I will confess that I had an ulterior motive for spending the last two nights in Freeport. Two of my very closest birding friends, Victor Emanuel and Barry “The Body” Lyon, were it town for the Freeport Xmas count. Not only have I have I been close friends with the both of them for 25 years, but they and their affiliate, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours (VENT), have been incredibly supportive of my efforts this year. You will recall VENT put up the $2,500 for our first match event of the year. Ultimately this helped us to raise close to $9,000 during the 2 week match period. So, when Victor and Barry offered me the pullout couch in their hotel room for the last two nights, I took it without a second thought. I had a really …

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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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