Texas Bicycling News Digest January 17th 2019
Dallas’ Bike Share Experiment Seems To Have Increased Bike Deaths
BY SHAWN SHINNEMAN | www.dmagazine.com
A riddle: What happens when you cram more bicyclists onto streets without bike lanes?
If there was not enough evidence already to illustrate the disaster of Dallas’ brief experiment with share bikes, let us submit one more point. Below, courtesy of a tweet from Dr. Rob Rasmussen, a resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center, we see a spike in fatal bike crashes last year. …
Head Sport agrees to buy most ASE assets for $22M
by Stephen Frothingham | www.bicycleretailer.com
DURHAM, N.C. (BRAIN) — At a bankruptcy auction Wednesday, Head Sport — a European sports company best known for its skis and tennis rackets — agreed to purchase most of the assets of Advanced Sports Enterprises for about $22 million. The agreement is subject to court approval later this month.
Head is an Amsterdam-registered company that manufactures ski, tennis, swim and other sports products and licenses its name to suppliers in other industries. The corporate name of …
tracking lost bike with gps
By crazyt | austinmountainbiking.com
I use a tile on my bike to hopefully track it if it is stolen. The tile creates a bluetooth mesh network which depends on someone using tile nearby.
There is a new device from ping gps which uses cellular and GPS to transmit location which means you are much more likely to find your stuff.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ping-bluetooth-cellular-gps-tracker/
the trackers are selling for $90, not sure if they are shipping yet. …
Nite Bike
JON BLAZE | www.strava.com
Thursday 3 and 5.
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NWCC Leakey Training Camp – Ride #1
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