Cycling Austin
Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a tragedy for us cyclists to realize how unsafe some of the roads we ride on can be. After the tragic loss of Verter Ginestra, the Lake Travis Cycling Club began to actively look for a way to make Bee Cave Parkway safer. It’s a route ridden on hundreds of times a week by area cyclists and has no shoulders. There have been accidents between cars and cyclists and many close calls with angry drivers who don’t know the rules of the road. These drivers don’t…

Tips from a pro mechanic #4 – Bike maintenance schedule
People for Bikes Blog
Whether you are new to bicycling or an experienced rider, it can never hurt to brush up on tips to help you take care of your bike. That’s why we’ve asked pro bike mechanic, local bike shop owner, and friend of PeopleForBikes.org Daimeon Shanks to help us with a four-part series on bike mechanics and maintenance. In this final post of the series, Daimeon lays out an ideal bike maintenance schedule.

(Excerpted from Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair by Daimeon Shanks (June 2012) with permission from Human Kinetics Publishers.) …

City of Pharr Adopts Safe Passing Law
BikeTexas.org

Last month, the City of Pharr became the 12th Texas city to adopt a Safe Passing Ordinance! This new legislation requires motorists to give at least three feet space when passing cyclists, pedestrians, people with disabilities, and other non-motorized road users. KRGV reports that “vehicles other than cars or light trucks” must give six feet when passing. …

Cycle & See with Geared Up Bikestation
BikeTexas.org

Geared Up Bikestation in Houston is a community bike shop and advocacy organization. Their mission is “to bring forth innovative programs that will educate residents of the health and environmental benefits of bicycling, advocate the integration of bike-and-pedestrian friendly roads and trails, and provide bikes to those in need.”

At least twice a month, the group puts on a Cycle & See, a bike ride plus scavenger hunt that is designed “to build community awareness, cultivate a subculture of cyclists, and enhance participants’ overall health and quality of life.” The next Cycle & See is scheduled for July 28 in Acres Homes, and…

Bike Clinic at Bywaters Park
inparistexas.com

The 2012 Tour de Paris Bicycle Rally is going to be an epic gathering of bicycle enthusiasts from all over the area. Gearing up for the main event happening Saturday July 21st, many bikers came together for the clinic held at Bywaters Park in Paris Texas. Among the many stations set up at…

Grapevine Bike Center
by John D. Harden        impactnews.com
Former firefighter keeps residents rolling

About 22 years ago in Grapevine, the only bicycle center was just 800 square feet and it was owned by 33-year-old Gary Scott, a full-time Grapevine firefighter. Scott opened the Grapevine Bike Center after he realized there was a need for it in the city and felt like doing more in the city he grew up in.

Today, Scott, now 55, still owns the bike center. But it is now housed in a 2,400-square-foot location on…

Pegasus Favorite Five: Bike trails, parks, and paths in Dallas
by Shawn McAfee of I Live in Dallas        www.pegasusnews.com
White Rock Lake and L.B. Houston Nature Preserve make the list.

Looking for a great way to spend an afternoon? Why not knock the dust off that old bicycle and explore the town. Dallas isn’t known for its bicycling, but there’s plenty of great hotspots to visit. Get ready for some fresh air and exercise as you explore these five great Dallas bike trails, parks and paths. …

Victim of bike-semi crash identified
Driver tried to avoid bicyclisT
SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) – San Marcos police have identified the victim who died in a collision early Monday with a tractor-trailer truck.

Jeffery David Stevenson, 40, of  Big Spring, Texas died at the scene at about 2 a.m. in the 5600 block of the southbound access road of Interstate Highway 35, just south of Posey Road.

The truck driver stayed on the scene and called police just after it happened. The road was unlit…

Cascade Cycling Classic
www.bendbulletin.com
Men’s prologue winner out of race

Less than two days after winning Tuesday night’s prologue of the Bend Memorial Clinic Cascade Cycling Classic, Chad Haga was out of the pro men’s race and back at his parents’ home in Texas.

Haga, who rides for the Optum team, was part of a multiple-rider crash during the early portion of Wednesday’s 74-mile McKenzie Pass Road Race. Badly injured, Haga managed to finish the stage by riding the last 70 miles with broken bones in…

Texas 4000 rolls through town
By Alistair McInnis – Prince George Free Press

The Texas 4000 is a cycling trek of roughly 7500 kilometres from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska that raises awareness about cancer. Participants are split into one of two groups, traveling either through the Rockies are along the coast. Hunt is on …

Cyclist overcomes injury to stay in competition
Staff Writer Weatherford Democrat
WEATHERFORD — Gary Gottlieb woke up in an ambulance. Bicycling when the tanker truck ahead of him spilled diesel across the road, he was been knocked unconscious from the fall when his bicycle skidded unexpectedly on the liquid.  But he didn’t let his unexpected bad fortune get him down, or even keep him in the hospital.

Instead, he managed to persuade the hospital staff he was fine, and was back on his bike in just a few hours.

It wasn’t that Gottlieb hated hospitals, but at that particular moment, he had a race to win.

Gottlieb is a world-class unsupported ultra-distance biker, and it was in the middle of one of the 2011 Tejas 500, a 500 mile race based out of Glenrose, Texas, that he was knocked…

How to Lose Weight Mountain Biking
by Shawn McAfee        Texas Mountain Bike Trails
Lose weight mountain biking? Yes, it is very possible.

For anyone that has been following along for a while, you might remember waaaay back in January when I set an ambitious goal to lose a bunch of weight through mountain biking.

How ambitious, 40 pounds.

By when, October 8th.

And since that time I haven’t really provided a lot of updates on how I’ve been doing with this goal, nor about how my strategy for getting it done has worked out. There has been a lot of success and also some…

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— Texas 4000 (@Texas4000) July 20, 2012

Firecracker Ride 7/21 8:30am. Leaving Odessa 42nd St & Hwy 1930. Join us!

— Peyton's Bikes (@PeytonsBikes) July 20, 2012

Day 49: #Sierra will be heading for their last stop in the USA, Mt. Vernon, Washington. Quite a patriotic last stop.

— Texas 4000 (@Texas4000) July 20, 2012

DAY 49: #Rockies team out in the wilderness of Canada and heading for Kitwanga

— Texas 4000 (@Texas4000) July 20, 2012

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— Texas MTB Trails (@TexasMTBtrails) July 20, 2012

Yeah! RT @chadsmith71 Hardest part nite at @DrivewaySeries wasnt the 28mph P123 crit, but leadin kids race. I had 2sprint 2stay in front.

— Driveway Series (@DrivewaySeries) July 20, 2012

Weekend Info, Katy Flatland, & Trek Giveaway #constantcontact http://t.co/zJpDAsl8

— HoustonCyclingCentre (@HoustonBikes) July 20, 2012

Does anybody still care about the "temporary" bicycle ban in Manor? http://t.co/4VSBRZ48 #cycling

— TexBIKE/aus (@TexBIKE_aus) July 20, 2012

Don't forget! Next Bicycle Sport Shop University Summer School session is NEXT Saturday July 28. Registration info: http://t.co/fTX8pU2g

— Bicycle Sport Shop (@BSS_Austin) July 20, 2012