Urban Challenge Ride
Houston Bicycle Club
Sun 10/16/11
The Urban Challenge Rides are in-town group rides, faster and longer than the EZ Rides, each time taking you to different parts of the city each time. You should be able to maintain a pace of 15 mph and above for a distance of 40 to 45 miles, usually with one rest stop.

Rescue team dispatched in search of lost bike rider in Franklin Mountains National Park
by Aileen B. Flores \ El Paso Times
An El Paso Fire search and rescue team is looking for a bike rider lost in the Franklin Mountains National Park.

Dispatchers received an emergency call just before 5 p.m. today. Rescuers are searching for the man off the Tom Mays Park area, a fire dispatcher said. …

CAMPO list heavy on bike, ped and transit
Ben Wear: Getting There        www.statesman.com
The people who make transportation policy for Central Texas will decide tonight how to divvy up $132 million from the Legislature and Uncle Sam.

If they go with a list of projects that has bubbled up from the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization over the past few months, bike, pedestrian and transit projects will get almost 40 percent of the money. That includes almost $5 million for a bicycle bridge on MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1) at Barton Creek taken from funds that, …

Cyclists honor locals touched by transplants
Events focus on bone marrow, need for donors
By Britney Tabor / Staff Writer        Denton Record-Chronicle
HIGHLAND VILLAGE — Texas Woman’s University senior Craig Cornish, whose life was saved by a bone marrow transplant five years ago, was among local guests honored at two events at a Highland Village middle school and a Lewisville business Friday.

The events, hosted by Be the Match, a national marrow donor program, welcomed to town amateur cyclists participating in the 14th annual Lone Star Circle of Life Bike Tour. The riders have traveled the state making scheduled stops to raise awareness of the need for…