May is National Bike Month

When is Bike to Work Week and Day?
The League of American Bicyclists is the national sponsor of Bike Month, and this year Bike to Work Week is May 14-18 and Bike to Work Day is Friday, May 18.
Bike Month Ideas
Need some ideas? Use the League’s Bike Month Guide to learn how to get started promoting your event. …

Women’s Mountain Biking Clinic
Fort Worth Mountain Bike Association
Sunday, March 11, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Gateway Park.

Prominent Author to Keynote National Women Cycling Forum

Sue Macy, author of Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way), will appear as the keynote speaker at the inaugural National Women Cycling Forum. The forum will be held on March 20 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in conjunction with the 2012 National Bike Summit.

Women still cycle at much lower rates than men in the United States—making up just 24 percent of bike trips in 2009. But that trend is shifting. This Forum will be…

Farenthold votes against federal funding for hiking, biking trails
Farenthold votes against hike, bike bill
By Rick Spruill            Corpus Christi Caller
Bicycling advocates last week expressed disappointment over a lack of support from congressional leaders who voted down an amendment to pay for pathways intended for hikers and cyclists.

U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold was one of 29 members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee who voted against the amendment to the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, a federal…

Texas Gulf Coast in Winter
By Oren Wright and Jerry Harp – (contact)
Day0: Long Haul to Houston: How this tour came about
Sunday January 22, 2012
PHOTO CREDITS:
The large majority of the photos in this journal were taken by Jerry. He certainly has a better eye for photography than I do…even if one of his cameras was haggled for at a pawn shop for $50!

NAVIGATION CREDITS:
Planning the route made Oren the tour navigator. He’s a ‘mapsturbator,’ trained in such by the Army. I like my GPS. By the time the gadget had worked out a turn, Oren was well on his way.

Winter Tour:
Jerry Harp, a crusty old veteran of bicycle touring who has posted many of his escapades on CrazyGuy, usually does a couple of short tours during the winter months. Living in east…