Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for September 24th
Normally I let the Velonews and other professional websites be sources for products information but I wanted to include the new product release from CamelBak since they started in Texas. This year’s product enhancements solve a couple of issues I have had when I use my CamelBak. One issue they have yet to address is the tendency of the bite valve to be a grapple hook around loose items. No matter how much I try the bite valve always grabs something.
Interbike Bits: Camelbak
from singletrack.com by Lennard Zinn
…‘Antidote’ Bladder
The new bladder (the antidote to dehydration), now has a larger fill port (and it was already very large before) that is a stronger, clear plastic, perforated for a 19-percent weight saving and brought down in height by almost a third. In a vast improvement on the old port, which could often…
BILL CULLINS: Have we become too dependent on electronics?
by San Angelo Standard Times
I did a workout last week on a new bicycle I’m building up, before installing a bike computer.
The ride was great — just me and the bike — without any form of digital information feedback. That experience got me to thinking, “What would a fitness lifestyle be like without modern electronics…
Humana Names Elves & More as Winner of $100000 “Humana Communities Benefit …
by MarketWatch (press release)
Elves & More, a nonprofit organization that changes children’s lives one bike at a time, has been awarded a $100,000 grant as the winner of the 2010 Humana Communities Benefit — Houston program, funded by health-benefits company Humana Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!hum/quotes/nls/hum (HUM 50.25, +0.27, +0.54%) .
With the $100,000 grant, Elves & More will expand its bicycle program, delivering 2,000 new bicycles to at-risk children in schools with Rodeo Institute for Teaching Excellence (R.I.T.E.) reading…
The newest high school sport? Mountain bike racing
by Austin 360, By Pamela LeBlanc
Not every school kid wants to play football, even in Texas.
With the creation of the Texas High School Mountain Bike Racing League, budding athletes will soon be able to look beyond traditional offerings like basketball, baseball and volleyball to a scrappy sport that sends them careening down dirt trails and tearing over roots and rocks.
Last week, the California-based National Interscholastic Cycling Association announced it was adding leagues in Texas, Washington state and Minnesota.
The Texas league will be open to ninth- through 12-graders at public and private…
Masters of the track: Cyclists display domination at national meet
by Lewisville Leader
By Damon Sayles, dsayles@acnpapers.com
Published: Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:38 PM CDT
FRISCO – The spin of the wheels and sounds of the pedals catch the attention of Nick Chenowth early on a Thursday morning.
As elite cyclists whiz by in the ultimate track he created – the Superdrome on the Preston Ridge campus of Collin College – Chenowth catches a glance at his watch. …