Austin towels off for Mellow Johnny’s race
from singletrack.com by Steve Frothingham
Steady rain — road-closing, trail-soaking, river-swelling rain — kept anyone from getting an early taste of the singletrack at Lance Armstrong’s Juan Pelota Ranch on Friday.

But if you managed to find your way through the detours and around the flooded roads out to the ranch, the rain gave an opportunity to chat with two of the Austin area’s most knowledgeable mountain bike racing experts on the eve of the weekend’s racing at the ranch. …

Pondero: Not the Ugliest Part of Texas
by Christopher Johnson
The Denton Turkey Roll ride was today, but that is not what this is about. Though invited to the Denton ride, I gave up on it after a busy week and a long list of waiting chores. Unexpectedly, I was able to persuade my sweet bride to shuck the chores for lunch in Muenster.
That means I was able to actually pre-ride the route of the December 19th, First Annual Fall Finale Forty-mile County Path Ramble. …

Beaudet tests the new bike facilities
by Austin 360
Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Program Manager with the City of Austin in Department of Public Works, has written about her observations of the new facilities recently installed. …

It is my pleasure to write about my experience riding the new facilities recently installed as part of the City’s experimental bicycle facility study, …

Motorist denies wrongdoing in fatal bicycle accident
by San Antonio Express
The Bruehlers were pedaling along a wide shoulder of Texas 16 when Sullaway’s Ford F-150 King Ranch struck them after veering off the road just north of …

Russ Sikes: Humanizing our urban space one park at a time
by Dallas Morning News
This year for example, federal spending on pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly infrastructure among America’s top 52 metropolitan areas comes to a whopping …

City of Austin gets Bicycle Friendly Business award | Fit City
By Pamela LeBlanc, League of American Bicyclist…
The City of Austin is currently the only city in Texas to receive the award and is one of only three government entities in the nation designated. BFB businesses make bicycle friendliness a core element in the workplace and use …

Travel West Texas – National Geographic Adventure Magazine
TWO: Pinto Canyon Road winds through the stunning Chinati Mountain backcountry, but it’s for high-clearance vehicles only (not hard to come by . . . this is Texas). Soak in the hundred-degree pools at Chinati Hot Springs, … THREE: Rent a knobby-tired bike in Terlingua, and buy some extra tubes, from Desert Sports ($30; desertsportstx.com), then set out on the Contrabando Multi-Use Trail System’s 30 miles of singletrack or the 600 miles of fire road running through Big …

Lost and found in the middle of Houston
by CultureMap – Houston,TX,USA
Flecks of blood started to appear on my sweat-drenched pants as I watched the railroad ties thudding away beneath my bike tires. The thorns I’d wandered through a few minutes earlier and a chain-link fence separated me from the little circle on my GPS I’d been trying to reach for the last hour. …