This how to will only be valuable if it ever starts to rain again in Texas.

Make a Rear Mud Guard for Your Bicycle Out of an Old Wheel [DIY]
from Lifehacker by Whitson Gordon
There’s nothing worse than biking through a puddle of mud, only to find that you have a giant brown line down your back from the mud spraying up behind you. Here’s how to make a cheap mud guard for your bike. …

This must be for “mudding” with clearance like this.

Full-suspension bicycle
from MAKE Magazine by John Baichtal

Check out the latest work by Make: Online fixture Peter Wagner, who built this excellent frankenstein bike that sports a pretty radical suspension.

My current main ride, with dreamed-of front end made real. The whole machine is bolted together..no welds or cuts at all. The wheel base expands about a foot in a deeep bounce. …

Photos from the Southwest Frameworks Retro Ride
from Biking In Dallas by Christopher Curnutt
Each year Southwest Frameworks hosts a vintage/classic bike meet and ride at White Rock Lake.  Sadly I did not hear about it in time to add it to our announcements for October, we’ll …

Patrick Dempsey cycles through Dripping Springs
by KVUE (video)
Dempsey rode with the Radio Shack cycling team, and Sunday morning the electronics giant handed Lance Armstrong a one million dollar check for the …