Today I added maps of the Texas bike shops. I divided the state into the five major zip codes. There is a map for the 75xxx, 76xxx, 77xxx, 78xxx, and 79xxx sections of the state under the menu tab above for Texas Bike Shop Listing. The maps can be zoomed in and out. Click on the shop name on the right and the location will pop up on the map. Check it out.

Ride Report for Day 4 of the Rapha Turkey Takeoff Challenge on Strava – AKA “The Marauding Minivan”
Ready for Plan B
A Normal Guy’s Journey To Plant-Based Cyclist
November 27th, 2011
Readyforplanb.com ride report for Day 4 of the Rapha Turkey Takeoff Challenge on Strava.
On the final day of the Rapha Turkey Takeoff Challenge on Strava I was greeted with temps in the thirties and the wind blowing over twenty miles per hour.  With those winds Ben and I decided we would do a leisurely tour around Dallas and enjoy the ride rather than heading out to the country and just banging out the miles.  It turned out to be a great call.

We rolled down the Santa Fe Trail and cut through a very quiet down town, enjoying the wide open streets cutting through the high-rises.  The Christmas decorations were already up and the tourists were out by the Dealey Plaza.  Still, we both laughed at how amazing it…

I Bike Richardson – Mike Freiberger
by dickdavid
It’s time for another installment of the I Bike Richardson series, where we put a face on Richardson cyclists. We’d like to introduce, Mike Freiberger. He took the time to answer a few questions about biking. Enjoy:

Name:
Mike Freiberger
dorba.org: commie-forum
How long have you been riding?
I moved to Allen in 2003 and wanted to bicycle commute to the Richardson office, but never could find a route I was comfortable riding.  In Spring 2007, I talked to a coworker (thanks Bob M!) here at the Verizon Richardson campus, and we sorted out a route for my bicycle commute.  Since January 2008, I’ve logged over 12,000 miles…

Seen at the Bike Friendly Richardson Black Friday Ride
by Christopher Curnutt            Biking in Dallas

I’m a bit behind updating things around these parts, so here goes…Bike Friendly Richardson hosted their 3rd annual Black Friday Ride which was a nice alternative to getting creamed at your local Walmart. We meandered through mostly residential neighborhoods within Richardson and then ate at the Twisted Root…

Texas High School Bike Racing League
McKinney Velo Club

McKinney Velo members Justin Hicks (pictured here) and Austin McCown are among hundreds of Texas high school bike racers who are gearing up for the 2012 Texas high school racing season.

High School boys road racing has two categories: B races for Beginner/Intermediate racers, and A races for Advanced racers. The Texas H S League also has a separate category for girls. Texas H S…

Winter Texan bikes almost 1,300 miles to get back to Valley
Zack Quaintance                The Monitor

As a child in Nebraska, Steve Vandenberg had 11 siblings and a mother who did not drive.

He pedaled all over Omaha. He rode to school, he biked to the store, hauling home small items for his immobile mother. Vandenberg, who is now 57, had inadvertently begun training for Sept. 29, 2011.

On that day, he left home on his bicycle. During the next 16 days, he pedaled 1,295 miles. He rode all the way from his front door in Omaha to his winter home in Edinburg, averaging about…

Texas 4000 Benefit Tonight [Show Preview]
austinist.com
Ever fathomed riding your bike from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska? Us neither, but every June a group of UT students make the journey with the noble goal of raising money for cancer research. Traversing over 4500 miles over three months, 50 brave souls share information and give hope to towns throughout America and Canada while they ride. Tonight, the Texas 4000 for Cancer, a non-profit organization at UT, seeks to raise money for the cause with a quartet of excellent bands.

Shakey Graves tops off the event with his talented one-man-band act. Alejandro Rose-Garcia, a talented Texan currently living in LA, has cultivated an enthusiastic following after releasing his debut album Roll the Bones. Available for streaming and…

As In the Tour De BBQ Days, I’m Doing a Quick Check in today.
by Justin             The Plano Cyclist
I hope you have enjoyed the last two days of questionably good content in the blog, but I’m afraid that I have some bad news to report. I was injured in an epic bike battle over Thanksgiving weekend, and I hurt my wrist enough to prevent me from either riding or wrenching for a few more days. I had put some articles and reviews in the hopper, hoping to get ahead, but I ended up waiting for parts anyway, so I have come to a dead stop, bicycle wise.

I did sell my Suteki for my asking price (which was a bargain) to some happy cyclist that had just discovered “skinny tire vintage bikes”, moved to Uptown, and decided that he needed one. He told me that no matter what he looked at, he kept coming back to this bike – even…