Texas Bicycling Daily News Roundup November 21st
2012 CC Cycle Club Christmas Party
Good friends and good cheer, It’s that time of year!
Please be our guest at the 1st Annual Corpus Christi Cycle Club Christmas Party on Saturday, December 1, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. This party will serve more as a fund raising benefit, benefiting the cycle kids program.
LOCATION:
Vietnam Restaurant
701 N. Water St.
Corpus Christi, TX 78401
Buffet style dinner will be served. Please bring your favorite dessert to share with the group. A Silent Auction to be held from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The silent auction will raise funds for our club benefiting such charities as the cycle kids program. Auction items have been generously donated by members of our club and the community.
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Tuesday: Intermediate/Advanced Mountain Bike Ride at the Ant Hills
Houston Cycling Club
Tuesday, November 27, 2012Â Â Â 6:15 PM
15200 Memorial Dr, Houston, Te (map)
Look for group and ask if it’s us! call me, Jeff @ [masked] if you have any questions or are going to be late.
This will be a medium to fast pace ride through the Ant Hills of Hershey Park! Bring WATER, spare tube/tire, snacks, etc…Helmets required. Call if you are going to be late so we can wait for you. Wheels rolling by 6:30! See you there
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Weekly Road Bike Ride-Fast Paced
Houston Cycling Club
Wednesday, November 28, 2012Â Â Â 6:30 PM
Terry Hershey Park
15200 Memorial Dr, Houston, TX (map)
Look for a silver Nissan Titan. Robert Hopper [masked]
This is a weekly road bike ride. The total distance will be between 20-23 miles. The ride is a straight shot to Katy’s Fry Rd on a well paved path. No need to worry about red lights or traffic because there aren’t any. The pace will be 20 + mph.
Don’t like pulling? No problem, just draft and enjoy the ride!
C’mon out and join us ! …
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Holiday Party!
www.bikehouston.org
2012 has been a great year and all the hard-working elves on the board of BikeHouston invite you to celebrate with us at our annual BikeHouston Holiday Party!
The party is FREE and open to all members and non-members. We’ll provide pizza and beer, and some great door prizes for some lucky cyclists.
The party will be held at Karbach Brewing Co. (see map below) from 7 to 9 pm on Thursday, December 6th. Just show up, or ride over with the group from Blue Line Bike Lab in the Heights at 6:30 pm (be sure to bring your helmet, bike lock and lights!). We’ll also have a group ride back to…
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B-Cycle expands South Side reach
By Mark D. Wilson         www.mysanantonio.com
San Antonio’s newest B-Cycle bike sharing stations opened Friday at six new locations around South San Antonio.
The new stations — located at Roosevelt Park, Concepcion Park, Mission Concepcion, Mission Road Street Connection, VFW River Trail Access and Mission San Jose — provide yet another way for residents and visitors to explore the ever-expanding Mission Reach and the San Antonio missions.
Mayor Julian Castro said San Antonio has a vibrant cycling community, and hopes to make the city the friendliest city for cyclists in the nation. “We want to…
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Portland’s cargo bike love and expertise spreads to Texas
by Jonathan Maus         bikeportland.org
There are few things I love more than to see bike culture spread. It happens so frequently, I think, because people are passionate about bicycling and they can’t help but share it with others.
For southeast Portland resident Tom LaBonty, his passion is cargo bikes, and he just got back from Texas where he gave two-day workshop on how to build them. LaBonty was invited to Texas by Bike Friendly Oak Cliff (BFOC), a group of advocates based in Dallas (as part of their Cyclesomatic event). They learned about LaBonty after…
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Learning to ride: Joining the Street Riders
by Elly               takingthelane.com
This is the third post of three outtakes from Volume 8 of the quarterly Taking the Lane series, Childhood. (Read the first one here and the second one here). This story is by Brigette Brown.
Sweat drips down my forehead, tears of exasperation well up in my eyes. I struggle under the hot afternoon sun. Rays of light beat down on as if I were under a spotlight in a grand theater.
Grunt. Struggle. Fall.
Grass, rocks and dirt move aside as my wheels struggle to find a steady, fluid rotation beneath me. I grunt, as I attempt to pedal without falling over. The bike leans to the right, my foot lands on the ground.
My eight-year-old twin sister — who learned to ride a bike three years ago — rides in circles around me, complaining about having to stay in the backyard. It’s my fault.
You can do this. Riding a bike is fun… and easy. It’s a mantra I repeat over and…
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On Beyond Texas Tour
By Andy Janz         www.crazyguyonabike.com
How the trip came to be….
Another 30 year old pipe dream which looks like it is coming to fruition…. And another spinoff from last year’s trip…. Last year we started in New Orleans and headed east to Florida…. This year we will again be starting in New Orleans, but this time we will be riding in the other direction, namely west into Texas.
Who is Going?
So far I am going on this trip (Andy “Please!!… No more Headwinds!!”)…… And Bob “Hill??!!…That ain’t no stinkin’ Hill!!!” will be making this journey. Bob will be riding to Austin and then will have to depart home.
In Austin, I will make the decision whether to pull the plug and also go home… or continue further west for awhile… possibly beyond Texas and then into New Mexico and Arizona….. And thus the name for the trip (“Beyond Texas”).
Will this trip happen as planned? Will we get beyond Texas???… It’s always good to set goals and aspirations high and hopefully achieve them!…. What adventures and tribulations await us?… Headwinds?…. Short riding days? …. “Stinkin’ Hills??!”… Cold Nights and frozen toes???…. Will Halt work on javelinas???…. I’m sure we’ll find the answers to some of these questions which have been going through our minds lately… The list could go on and on… We will just have to dwell on the positive instead and keep riding towards the setting sun!!!…..
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