Texas Shop Finds Creative Way to Get Kids Riding
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Bicycle Sport Shop, a Specialized dealer with three locations in Austin, Texas has been doing terrific work in that community to get more kids riding and walking to school.

In February of 2010, Bicycle Sport Shop, led by Director of Advocacy Leslie Luciano, began a partnership with the Boltage program at their first school in Austin.  Boltage uses incentives and…

Tell the Senate that bikes have a right to the road
www.bikeleague.org
The draft of the Senate’s transportation authorization bill, S. 1813 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, includes language that would introduce a mandatory sidepath law on roads in our National Parks and other Federal lands. It requires cyclists on Federal lands to use a path or trail, instead of roads, if the speed limit is over 30 MPH and a trail exists within 100 yards, regardless of its condition or…

HBC Christmas Lights Ride Ride
December 10, 2011
Hermann Park Rose Garden, Houston
This is a liesurely social ride for a couple of hours through Houston neighborhoods with good decorations. We’ll stop somewhere for a light meal on the way back.   Come with good lights, charged batteries and reflective clothes!  Decorations encouraged.

Austin Park Foundation Work Day at the Hill of Life
by Laura Scagn            Austin Ridge Riders
Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Come volunteer to rebuild/bolster the water bars and drainage features at the Hill of Life, located at the far west end of the Barton Creek Greenbelt main trail on Camp Craft Road.  We’ll be moving and packing rock, gravel and soil to allow the hill trail to drain better.  We’ll need lots of volunteers as well as extra wheelbarrows, rock bars, rock cradles, picks and more. This is a…

Gateway Park Trail Extension
Fort Worth Mountain Bike Association

Gateway Park Trail Extension

The new Gateway Park trail extension is off to a great start! We had over 20+ volunteers, fantastic weather and good food at the November Workfest. Let’s build on that success by increasing our volunteer turnout and thereby increasing the amount of tasty singletrack at Gateway Park! If you were at the Workfest earlier this month bring a friend. We need boots on the ground in order to get knobbies in the dirt!
– Meet prior to 9:00am at the abandoned parking area on East 1st Street immediately east of the Trinity River. Location (turn on satellite view)

December Rides Announced
Fort Worth Bicycling Association
The December ride list is up. Please go to the Ride Events page for all of the exciting details!
Burleson and Beyond, Burleson TX (details)     Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:00 am
The Rusty Chain Gang Romp, Benbrook TX (details)     Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:00 am
Bicycles Inc. Century of the Month, Arlington TX (details)     Saturday, December…

Mountain Bike Results
by League Director        Texas High School Cycling League

In the 2011 Texas High School Cycling League fall mountain bike race series Sachse high school took both the varsity and junior varsity individual titles on their way to beating out Jesuit in the team overall competition.  Here are just some of the pictures of the action.  Be sure to check back soon for information about our high school…

Uberhood First Impressions
by Justin        The Plano Cyclist

Most of you have probably heard about the Uberhood from Bikesnob NYC, who made pretty nasty comments about the ‘hood, and by extension it’s users. Here in Plano we are a more more friendly and accommodating to folks, and we give them a chance before we make broad negative assumptions about a group of people.

I was very excited when I received my ‘hood in the mail, because it is the first of several products I’ll be giving the old PC gorilla test to over the next couple of months. …

Seen at the Bike Friendly Oak Cliff 2011 Dallas Tweed Ride – Dealey Plaza
by Christopher Curnutt        Biking in Dallas

I have so many photos that I’m splitting them into three galleries: Dealey Plaza, Turner House and then Bishop Arts; in the same order we rode.  The lighting was kind of weird at Dealey Plaza because we were either in the full sun, or mostly shade.  Not ideal but oh well.

The weather could not have been more perfect. I’m guessing there was a couple of hundred people there, and I…

Extreme bike race takes over co-op
By Aaron West        www.dailytexanonline.com

Some might consider Lance Armstrong to be Austin’s claim to fame as far as cycling is concerned, but when it comes to extreme bike racing, let’s just say that Armstrong hasn’t ever wolfed down a boiled octopus in 21st Street Co-op’s infamously brutal MF 100.

“I think Lance Armstrong would tank in this race,” said Will Wolfe, a geology senior and an organizer of the MF 100 bike race. “He probably doesn’t have the stomach for it, honestly. Or the technical abilities. This course is basically just a perilous…

Sandy Springs cyclist rides with Lance Armstrong
Locals part of charity battling cancer
By David Rutz            www.neighbornewspapers.com

For a few minutes, Sandy Springs resident John Manser rode alongside the world’s most well-known cancer survivor and cyclist, seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong in Austin, Texas.

It was both cycling and the battle against cancer that led Manser, a cyclist for more than 20 years, and friend Kelly Wiggins to Austin for the Ride for the Roses Oct. 14 through 16.

“We were jacked up about it,” Manser said of getting some one-on-one time with Armstrong. “It was one of the most amazing…

New Belgium Brewing Co.’s Tour de Fat raises $400,000
Written by David Young            www.coloradoan.com

New Belgium Brewing Co.’s Tour de Fat, the bicycle oriented party that rolls across the country, is about more than just dressing up, riding a bike and drinking some beer, it is also raises a lot of money for bike advocacy programs and nonprofits.

New Belgium Brewing announced in a press release it raised more than $400,000 for bike-focused nonprofit organizations with this year’s Tour de Fat that included 13 cities across the country. …