New Belgium Tour de Fat Tire Festival
Austin Ridge Riders
The zany antics and great music of Tour de Fat will once again be meandering and pandering into Austin and ARR will definitely be there. As in previous years, we will be hosting the family-friendly bike parade through the streets of downtown and setting up the merchandise shop at the post-parade venue Fiesta Gardens. We will, of course, need fun loving volunteers so please…

Grape Days Ride – West Texas Cycling Association
Date: October 1, 2011
Location: Lubbock, TX
Details: The Grape Days ride will start at 8:30 AM from the Llano winery. The winery is on CR 1585 a few miles east of I-27 hwy. Pat Crawford will lead a ride of about 20 to 30 miles that will start and end at the winery. A lot of people bring cheese, crackers, sweets, other snacks, lawn chairs…

City updates bicycle plan, focusing on roads
Next year, funds likely will be spent on infrastructure, engineering, studies.
By Vianna Davila        www.mysanantonio.com
City Council adopted an updated bicycle master plan Thursday, along with a complete streets policy that calls for considering the needs of all users — from pedestrians to motorists — in future road projects.

Council adopted the plans without discussion at its regular meeting, just two days before the city’s first ciclovía, or bikeway, event on Sunday. Called SíClovía, the event closes streets to vehicular traffic to foster alternative…

Proclamation honors Bike/Run Central Texas staff, volunteers
By Audrey Spencer            The Cove Herald

Bike/Run Central Texas staff and volunteers were commended by the Texas Senate last week for their dedication and commitment to fitness and for supporting the nation’s wounded warriors.

The proclamation, written by state Sen. Brian Birdwell, recognized Copperas Cove’s “exceptional hospitality to bicyclists” and Bike/Run Central Texas for “making the Copperas Cove area one of the leading centers for…

Medicine of Cycling releases Concussion Guidelines for cyclists
www.usacycling.org
USA Cycling and the Medicine of Cycling group have released recommendations for treatment of riders who have sustained head trauma in cycling. Foremost amongst the guidelines is that any rider with a witnessed loss of consciousness during training or competition should be immediately removed from competition for evaluation by a medical…

Pedal with the New Prez – Lone Star Cyclists
Pace: Touring, Easy Touring
Date:  Saturday, October 22, 2011 – 8:00am
Location: SJ Stovall Park, 2800 W Sublett Rd, Arlington, TX
Join our new LSC president Paul Tate as he leads us on those great roads south of Arlington that he knows so well. Mileage options will be around 35 and 55 miles. The terrain can vary from flat to rolling hills. We’ll have great scenery as we pedal down country roads and go through some of those small towns that only cyclists know exist.

Maypearl Expedition – Lone Star Cyclists
Pace: Touring, Easy Touring
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011 – 9:00am
Location: Maypearl High School, 600 Phillips St, Maypearl, TX
We will head out of Maypearl “exploring” again but this time turn south instead of southwest looking for a few live towns (Italy for one) and a few ghost towns and railroads. Riding along the escarpment will bring a little climbing and a little downhill and lots of views. The route will be around 60 miles with a bailout along the way giving 36 miles. We will gather at the Maypearl High School at the southern terminus of FM-157. Take FM-157 south, past Venus. The school is on your right, well before FM-157 “T”’s into FM-66.

7:30am – Cup o Joe
Corinth Cycling Club
by scottfranklin@gmail.com
When: Sat Oct 8, 2011 7:30am to 9am  CDT
Where: Ronny Crownover Middle School
Event Description: The Cup o’ Joe is a beginner level ride of around 15 miles. The ride heads south to Hickory Creek and stops for drinks at Starbucks on the way home. The ride leader for this ride is Bob Troyer. The route

Beginner’s and Casual Ride
FWBA Ride List
Saturday, October 29, 2011 9:00 am – Art’s Park Trail Head Benbrook – Go south on Winscott to Memorial Oak. Trail Head is at the end of the road. Cost: 1 dollar for entrance to the State Park. Distance: up to 20 miles all on trails and park roads. Ride will normally be from Trail Head up thru Benbrook Lake Park to HI 377 and back. This is primarily a training ride for those new to cycling. Any level cyclist is welcome and club members will be on hand to provide guidance and answer questions. The goal is to introduce riders to the club and to help those new…

Six Hours of the Dinosaur is time well spent
By Bill Cullins         www.gosanangelo.com
SAN ANGELO, Texas — If you enjoy mountain biking, there’s an upcoming event you don’t want to miss. I repeat — don’t miss this event!

I’m talking about the Six Hours of the Dinosaur mountain bike race Oct. 15 at San Angelo State Park.

The six-hour race is a joint effort of the San Angelo Bicycle Association and the Multisport Adventure Company, a local grass-roots cycling team sponsored by…

Contextualizing Cycling Stats
By Carl Bialik            WSJ Blogs
My print column this week examines two recent studies of cycling’s dangers to pedestrians and cyclists themselves that received widespread press coverage. I write that both studies, when placed in proper context, are less worrisome than they first appear.

The more-recent study, of soot in cyclists’ lungs in London, was presented this week at the European Respiratory Society’s Annual Congress in Amsterdam. It compared the soot in certain lung cells of five male bicycle commuters in London with soot levels in the same cells in five…

and the winner is…
The Violet Crown Sports Association
The votes have been tallied, and the 2012 Violet Crown clothing design has been chosen. The jersey is shown below, and as soon as we can get images ready for all the pieces, we will have online ordering available. We plan…