It’s a totally different view from the top of a mountain bike | Texas Outdoors

Author: Barry Davis | www.kens5.com

If you think you know everything there is to know about riding a bike, and you haven’t tried mountain-biking, get ready for an education!

SAN ANTONIO — I have ridden thousands of miles on a bicycle and thought I knew just about everything was was to know about riding. Then I tried mountain-biking. Boy, did I get an education!

I have always ridden road bikes, but always wanted to try mountain-biking. I had no idea how different and just how tough it is.

With a road bike, it is a nice smooth ride where you’re only really challenged when you come to a significant hill.

Mountain-biking is a …

Up for the challenge

Jake Przytarski | www.marshallindependent.com

Photo by Jake Przytarski Steve Myhrberg, a New York native, stands behind his bike on Monday during his brief visit to Marshall to visit his brother Phil and their family.

MARSHALL — In the summer of 1981, a 28-year old Steve Myhrberg of Glens Falls, New York set out on a cross-country bicycle trip with his wife Pat in celebration of their eight-year anniversary. The couple went on to make it through the first leg of the tour, which included a stop in Marshall to visit Steve’s brother Phil, but the pair ended up falling just short of their ultimate goal.

Now, 40 years later, the two are back on the road and eager to finish what they started.

“I wanted to do something that was challenging enough where I gave myself a 50/50 …

Bikes and parts are proving hard to find for New Braunfels shops

By Lisa Dreher | herald-zeitung.com

The Chain Link bike technician Erik Rodriguez and owner Seana Rosseau work on one of several bike repairs in the shop. Repairs have been a key part of business as supplies of new bikes have dried up.

With more people buying bikes during the pandemic to get some fresh air, shops everywhere are facing bike and parts shortages while repairs ramp up.

Bike sales rose 78% during the pandemic, according to NPD Group, a market-research firm.

That climb in demand has left shops with backorders on assembled bikes and parts that are expected to last into the fall and perhaps even to next year. Bike repairs

The Chain Link bike technician Erik Rodriguez …

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