Cycling notebook: Rough times for Tour du Rouge
By DALE ROBERTSON – Houston Chronicle
The Tour du Rouge is a very different kind of bike ride, and that’s both a good thing and a bad thing.

Because it takes six days, traveling this spring from the Bush Intercontinental Airport Sheraton hotel parking lot to New Orleans via Beaumont, Sulphur, Abbeville, Morgan City and Gonzalez, it gives the Walter Mitty cyclist a taste of what a pro stage race…

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 3/25- 3/31/10 | Austin On Two …
by elliott
As part of the Texas State Championship Mountain Bike Racing Series, The Austin Ridge Riders present the 2010 Bicycle Sport Shop Pace Bend Race! The fun starts Saturday at 9 am with course pre-riding and other festivities and the racing …

Path Less Pedaled and Freewheeling Cycles presents: Bike Touring …
by Jason
Russ of Path Less Pedalled has been periodically emailing me about their cross country journey by bicycle, and as of about a week ago has landed in Austin, TX where they’ve been sampling the local bike life and giving presentations on …

Engineer helps fix road for triathlon
by Brazosport Facts
By John Tompkins When the athletes put their bicycle rubber to the road on Bluewater Highway during a triathlon in April, they’ll have one of their fellow …

The Hidden Peddler: last stop in TX
by Pedal4Peace
Hi, everyone,
Here we are in Liberty, TX, a little off the bike route but we had a hard time finding an RV park anywhere closer.  The bikers went 87 miles today from Navasota to the intersection of 105 and 146.  Paula, Katy and I had scouted out one place but it was really primitive and in a rather muddy field.  Katy found this park on-line and so we drove the 15 miles south to Liberty.  It isn’t great (no bathrooms or showers), but has electric, water, and sewer…