Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for February 19th
Urgent: Funding Cuts for Ped / Bike Projects
by Aaron Chang with 1 Comment
Recent proposed funding cuts threaten to delay existing bicycle / pedestrian projects and gut plans for new bicycle connectivity trails for the foreseeable future. We have until Friday Feb. 25, 2011 to get this changed. …
Whitewater custom bike builder will debut new line at national bike show
by Wisconsin State Journal
That will change next week when the Whitewater bike shop owner officially launches his Sotherland Custom Bicycles line at the National Handbuilt Bicycle Show in Austin, Texas. Last year, the show drew 150 exhibitors and 6000 attendees. …
Hundreds of cyclists turn out for Jalapeño 100
by Brownsville Herald
By ISAAC GARCIA Valley Morning Star Jorge Martinez was short of breath after completing a 100-mile bicycle run which took him round trip from Harlingen to Port Isabel in the 21st annual Jalapeño Hundred Bicycle Ride. Martinez, 19, and an estimated 600 …
Bike Brookshire
Ride Routes
A collection of several routes to start you on your journey thru the back roads Brookshire and Waller County.
Brookshire-Simonton-Fulshear – Mostly flat route from Brookshire, South…
Texas Spring Race Circuit – Mountain Bike Forums
from forums.mtbr.com
I just registered for my first mountain bike race at Warda in a couple weeks. I will be racing category 3 19-29 y/o. If I like it I plan on doing at least 3 …
Early Season CAUTION !
from Home by mike.emmons@verizon.net (Mike Emmons)
A lot of us are not riding the miles that we had been and with the bad weather in the last few weeks, fitness has slipped for some of us and our reflexes are not quite what they were before the winter hiatus. Add to that the sand and increased potholes and you will certainly see more riders doing scary things and making poor…
Fish Creek continues north over FM2854
from WCC by sschoger@comcast.net (Steve Schoger)
OK, good news and bad news! Fish Creek will be continued northbound, without having to exit left onto Leah and then to Honea Egypt and then to 2854. The bridge over FM2854 and the rail road tracks (Fish Creek had previously dead-ened before these two E-W transit ways) will be dedicated and opened up to vehicle traffic on Wednesday, February 23rd. Precinct 2 Commissioner Craig Doyle, a friend of cyclists…