San Antonio?
by vesteroid        www.bikeforums.net
I may have a job offer here and was hoping to get some insight on the area.

Anyone local want to share their opinions of the bike culture, riding season, or anything else about the area you think may be important to someone considering a move?

reply by Werkin
I don’t have much to say regarding the open ended question, for the bike centric topic a few comments. The riding season is year round. There are a few somewhat limited urban bike paths, one is central city and scenic. Regularly scheduled group rides for road cyclists are mostly in the Northeast, North central, and Northwest Bexar county areas. Challenging hills can found near the city…

June Babies Birthday ride
El Paso Bicycle Club
Saturday, June 2        7:30 AM
Meet at 6049 Ojo de Agua for this annual ride where the route will be 1 mile for every year-baseline is ride leader’s 45th birthday. Food and treats will be available afterward. Bring your bathing suit! Please park on Via Descanso behind our house. Moderate pace. Patty Van Tine, 915-667-0202

GDB Summer Bash
www.greaterdallasbicyclists.com
Come join us for the Summer Bash! Rides! Cash Prizes! Camaraderie!
Sunday, July 8th, 2012
Sunnyvale Town Center
356 Tripp Road, Sunnyvale TX
This event will replace the Sunday Roll and will have 2 routes available for riders: The Sunday Roll and The Undulating Roll. The Sunday Roll will have minimal hills and the usual Sunday Roll pace. The Undulating Roll will be a moderately paced ride and include a few of the hills surrounding the…

Memorial Day Lite Tour
Lone Star Cyclists
Have you heard about people getting on their bikes and riding from coast to coast? While most of us can’t do that, we can do a light tour over a long weekend. And here’s your chance!

May 26-28, Memorial Day weekend, we will do a light tour in East Texas. We’ll start near Tyler and pedal down to Henderson. The next day we’ll travel to Longview and then on the last day head back to Tyler.

Maximum daily mileage will be 55 miles. We’ll have the whole day to enjoy the ride, with beautiful scenery and no telling…

Song in Multi-Part Harmony
by Steve A        Dallas Point-to-Point

Chandra and I worked the riding course at the Irving Bike Fest yesterday. I was a little conflicted doing so, knowing Torrance was hosting a TS 101 course a few miles to the Southwest, but it was unclear what help Chandra might be able to count on and I knew Torrance had some help. And this was for kids. Nowadays, kids really have few sources of good…

Real Ale Ride
by Roy and Christine        Pedal Pushers

On the way to Blanco Friday afternoon, we came in on the road to be used for the ride’s return route. I wanted to take a picture of an example of some of the hills. As I found out the next day, the return route was the tame part of the ride. My Garmin showed ten 5% hills, three hills over 10%, and an uncountable number of 2-3-4%. And that was the first 13 miles of the ride to the first…

Levee work
by ajpwilkerson            Brazos Valley Mountain Bike Association
We have received word that some work may be done on the levees, possibly starting this week. This may or may not impact the trails. We are trying to get more information, and will pass on whatever news we get as soon as we get it. Stay tuned!

Viva Streets
by Ray Garza        Ciclistas Urbanos
Some interesting sites and sounds.

Livestrong Texas 4000 cyclists gear up for long ride to Alaska
Pam LeBlanc, Fit City
Nevermind the saddle sores, scorching heat and mountains the 43 University of Texas students who strike out on their bicycles from Austin in two weeks are determined to make it all the way to Alaska.

That’s nearly 4,700 miles, for the record. And it’s not all downhill.

This year’s scrappy cyclists, known collectively as the Livestrong Texas 4000 for Cancer, will launch their 70-day journey on June 2. Along the way, they’ll raise awareness about cancer and money to…