Texas Bicycling Daily News Roundup for August 23rd
Shake Night 2011!
Shawnee Trail Cycling Club
by sooner1
Ok – you have to ride first !!
That’s right! Every year, for one night, we move the start of the Thursday Night Rider to a new and fun place where we can purchase nice cold and fun beverages after the ride. This year is a bit different. We are starting from a place where the beverages are a lot healthier – but just as tasty! Same start time (6:30pm) for all routes. …
Friends finish cross-country journey
Vic Baker      Posted by: Eli George
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Three lifelong friends pedaled into Buffalo on Monday, finishing a cross-country journey they started together a quarter century ago.
Dan Alexander and Dave Cywinski and their friend, Tony Glosek, embarked on a coast-to-coast bicycle ride in 1986. But Cywinski and Glosek were hit by a pickup truck in Texas and Alexander finished the trip alone. They reunited and…
Students injured in two bike wrecks
One happened in Cedar Park; the other in Austin
by Jackie Vega
CEDAR PARK, Texas (KXAN) – A run-in with a car sent a 16-year-old to the hospital with a leg injury Tuesday morning in Cedar Park.
The Cedar Park High School student was riding his bicycle around 8:15 a.m. when police said he entered the roadway at a crossing point on Lakeline Oaks and South Lakeline Boulevard. That’s when he reportedly struck the…