Texas Bicycling News Digest December 28th 2017
Fort Worth partners with Strava to make commuting better
fortworthtexas.gov
The City of Fort Worth has partnered with Strava Metro, allowing users to record their human-powered travels and then have the routes compiled anonymously with millions of other Strava members. Metro aggregates that data and then works with …
Merry Christmas! Here’s 14 bikes in your yard
Loyd Brumfield | www.dallasnews.com
Remember all the angst those discarded rental bikes caused in Dallas? Hey, at least they weren’t littering your own yard, right?
That’s not the case for one family on Vanderbilt Avenue in Lower Greenville. The Hale family woke up on Christmas morning to find 14 LimeBikes parked neatly in their front yard — apparently courtesy of a prankish acquaintance. …
Rocky Mountain recalling bikes due to improperly installed brake housing
by BRAIN Staff | www.bicycleretailer.com
WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — Rocky Mountain Bicycles is recalling about 1,300 mountain bikes in the U.S. and 1,800 in Canada because of crash hazard due to brake housing that was not secured properly during manufacturing. No incidents or injuries have been reported to date.
The recall involves all model year 2018 Altitude, Instinct and Pipeline carbon and aluminum mountain bikes in various colors. These …
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After brief delay, A-Better Kids get bikes for Christmas
By Jake Reiner | www.click2houston.com
HOUSTON – For 25 years, A-Better Kids, which is a nonprofit program of A-Better Bail Bond, and Hamp’s Camp have raised money to make sure that children of Houston-area battered women and incarcerated parents have a merry Christmas, giving away 150 new bicycles. …
Weatherford to get its first bike lanes
By Christin Coyne | www.weatherforddemocrat.com
The City of Weatherford plans to soon test out its first bike lanes, to be located on Russell Street.
“There’s a lot of foot traffic from kids along that roadway already,†Director of Capital Transportation Projects Terry Hughes said during a December Transportation Advisory Board meeting. “There’s already sidewalks in that area. So we were going to be re-striping some of it, just to freshen all of that up. We felt …
Step-Up Ride for Dec 30th, 9:30 AM Start
jtotaro | www.planobicycle.org
At this writing (Thursday, 6:30 PM, Dec 28th) the weather for Saturday morning, Dec 30th, across the ride area is cold with 20% chance of rain. Now planning for a delayed start at 9:30 AM, but if it’s still predicted for a wind chill under 38 degrees and/or the rain chances increase a lot, check the Step-Up page on the PBA Ride Forums webpage for quite possible cancellation of the ride. Any cancellation notice will be posted by 7:45 AM Saturday morning. If you don’t see a change/cancellation notice by 8:00 AM, then …
Texas Bicycling from Twitter
Nice, strava updated their heatmaps. One of the best features they have provided. https://t.co/vIxnNHQQfD
— AustinCyclist (@AustinCyclist) December 29, 2017
cold enough for me in south texas #biketowork 🚲 pic.twitter.com/sV7a78JdI4
— Edgar Gaucin 🚲 (@edgargaucin) December 29, 2017
Forget Toilet Paper — Pranksters Fill East Dallas Yard With LimeBikes https://t.co/NqhIfz2GNG
— #BikeATX (@BikeATX) December 29, 2017
Flow check for Texxas DoubleCross https://t.co/7DTMACYwcf
— The Spinistry (@Spinistry) December 28, 2017
They haven't even opened the new bike lane on Stanton St., and the thermoplastic has already failed…#YouHadOneJob pic.twitter.com/TUD3LqnKTh
— Bike Hombre – STREETS ARE FOR PEOPLE (@sbwhite) December 28, 2017
How many ways can they block the bike lanes today? Let's see:
Construction signs in the bike lane ✔
Contractor vehicles in the bike lane ✔
Service vehicle blocking both the sidewalk and the bike lane ✔
Construction for a bike friendly project blocking the bike lane ✔ pic.twitter.com/uXTOYzBGFZ— Bike Hombre – STREETS ARE FOR PEOPLE (@sbwhite) December 28, 2017
Texxas DoubleCross stair climb https://t.co/FulwK86G3y
— The Spinistry (@Spinistry) December 28, 2017
High school mountain bike racing thrives on camaraderie and fun in @nationalMTB leagues across the U.S. https://t.co/Kxv366Cfop
— VeloNews (@velonews) December 28, 2017
The new DORBA web site is up and running! Everything EXCEPT the trails status is now located at the new site…. https://t.co/RG0Sfjwou1
— DORBA (@dorbaonline) December 28, 2017
Tell us what you want to see for #YourCityYourParks and take a quick survey —> https://t.co/ntRXHjEhnZ. Also join us in January for the last SA Parks System Plan community event and workshops. pic.twitter.com/iWt65DzDn9
— SAParksandRec (@SAParksandRec) December 28, 2017
@Mobike recently spotted in The Woodlands, TX. Mobike is the Largest Smart Bike Share. It's green, reduces congestion, and continually strives to improve the quality of city life. Learn more at: https://t.co/OwlFQv7Jkk pic.twitter.com/F8qTmSJXIr
— Critical Mass Houston (@HoustonCM) December 28, 2017
The Saturday Morning Ride for this weekend (12/30/17) has been canceled due to expected low temps and bad weather!
Stay warm and have a great weekend! pic.twitter.com/DefrI5Bpz6
— Cadence Cyclery of McKinney (@CadenceCyclery) December 28, 2017
Our 2017 year in review starts now! Our #TeenAmbassadors had a lot of fun at @Siclovia Siclovia in the spring!
•#BelieveItAchieveIt #DreamSA #TeenEngagement #Health #Wellbeing pic.twitter.com/Ap56owsk0q— DreamSA (@idream_sa) December 26, 2017
Registration opens 1/2/18 – https://t.co/GFI2fAOvH0 pic.twitter.com/Ba6Kk6MDv6
— 24 in the Canyon (@24inthecanyon) December 28, 2017
Come out for our last ride of 2017! https://t.co/uj8E9Ip82y pic.twitter.com/JabmzMRuKM
— SA Wheelmen (@sawheelmen) December 28, 2017
Brian to lead DB1 weekly ride! (Dec 30, 2017 08:00AM)
— PBA Rides (@pbaDB1) December 28, 2017
Brace yourself @tomhharrisonn ☠@ChiCritMass @criticalmasstw @MassHouston @criticalmass_ac @CMCologne @dccritcalmass @MiamiBikeScene https://t.co/oTVcF8e7Tj
— Critical Mass Houston (@HoustonCM) December 28, 2017
Maybe I can make this. https://t.co/zrVnuxcc2e
— The aatblog.com (@BikeSanAntonio) December 28, 2017
New Events Added to Texbiker.net Calendar
New Event Steam N Wheels Bike Race – Abilene, TX 2018 Steam N Wheels Bike Race at Abilene, TXhttps://t.co/24ApdgvqUmhttps://t.co/Qe74guEJ0n
Category Distance Start Fee Prizes Field Limit
Steam N Wheels Bike Race 12 Mile 12 miles 10:00 AM $35 1st, 2n… https://t.co/TAxbCptQtt— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) December 28, 2017
New Event 6 Hour Throwdown In D-Town 6 and 4 hour Endurance Racehttps://t.co/uB17KodXS8 February 18, 2018 at 07:30AM https://t.co/Aej2wpUNgV
— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) December 28, 2017
New Event 6 Hour Throwdown In D-Town 6 and 4 Hour Endurance Race – Registration opening soon!https://t.co/ZFiuvmjRIL January 28, 2018 at 07:30AM https://t.co/nRBUvan0Wv
— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) December 28, 2017