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Texas Bicycling News Digest April 20th 2016

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Orange Bikes Around Town

by RMBL

www.bikemojo.com

Thought it was odd to see orange bikes placed like the white ones around town.
Found this after searching: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto…31039890334279

 

Bastrop State Park Cleanup

by kerryp

www.bikemojo.com

Received this volunteer request from the park for help clearing hiking bridges of debris from the flooding over the last few days. I can’t volunteer during the week, but thought I would share it here in case anyone else was interested in helping. Email narrative and contact info below:
“Begin Email”
Hello from Bastrop State Park!
If you are receiving this email, it is because at some point you have …

Ride 2 Recovery cycles through post

www.forthoodsentinel.com


Ride 2 Recovery and 159 participants, including 15 from Fort Hood, stopped in the Killeen-Fort Hood area April 13-14, on their way from Georgetown to Waco. Fort Hood hosted the riders for a dinner at Club Hood Wednesday and III Corps hosted a send-off in front of III Corps Headquarters Thursday morning. Soldiers lined the ride’s route through post to show support for the riders. …

Wounded warriors pedal through Fort Hood

by JC Jones

kdhnews.com


For a decade, Master Sgt. Audra Edelen didn’t get on a bike.
Last week, Edelen, along with 150 other riders cycled nearly 500 miles across the state, as part of the United Healthcare Ride 2 Recovery Texas Challenge for wounded warriors.
It was Edelen’s third Texas Challenge and eighth challenge since 2013. …

Bicycling is great exercise, way to spend time with friends

By Denessa Leary Midland YMCA

www.mrt.com

The warm weather is calling and I love being outside. It is time to take the indoor cycling experience to the great outdoors. I had purchased a road bike last year and always had a great excuse to avoid riding it. I even bought a hook for it, hung it up and I looked at it — and it at me — every time I went through the garage. Now I am going to finally experience the outside ride, feel the wind and catch the high that the riders appear to be experiencing. I have a …

Biking across Texas with John Burnett and Hawk Mendenhall

by Pam LeBlanc

fitness.blog.austin360.com


It takes grit – and a little bit of the crazies – to pedal a bicycle 1,100 miles across Texas.
John Burnett, a roving correspondent for National Public Radio, and Hawk Mendenhall, director of broadcast and content for KUT, Austin’s NPR station, have both. They set out April 10 on a 1,100-mile ride from New Mexico to Louisiana to raise money for the Nobelity Project’s Bikes and Books program. …

Solving Austin’s “Donut of Danger”

by Mike Melanson

austinonabike.com


If you’ve ever traveled by bicycle – or just happen to live on the outskirts of a city – then you too likely recognize that the roads just outside the city, where country transitions to suburbs, can be some of the most dangerous to deal with on a bicycle. Maybe it’s the fact that drivers are used to going 65mph+ on country roads, maybe it’s the fact that they’ve just navigated hours of traffic and have finally hit the open road – only to encounter you on a bicycle.
Travis county’s Bicycle Safety Task Force has dubbed this area the “Donut of Danger” and has made recommendations to solve this issue. I’ll include the full body of the proposal below, but here are some key excerpts. …

Texas Bicycling from Twitter

https://twitter.com/GWCChuck/status/722978093506412544

https://twitter.com/GWCChuck/status/722830422829363200

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