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Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for December 27th

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Major Update to the Video Contest
AustinBike.com
There were those that were concerned that their video skills would be far surpassed by their riding skills – great on the trail, but not good for a contest.  So why bother going through all of the work and effort to create a video that didn’t stand a chance.

So we have decided to alter the focus of the event – in the light of the Sundance Film Festival, welcome to the Pedaldance Film festival.  And all that enter are going to get something.  Read on, it gets good.

We want everyone getting involved, so the focus is now on getting everyone together, watching some videos, and, most importantly, drinking beer.  To that end, Austinbike.com and UPG are going to buy the beer.  Everyone that enters a video gets a free beer and…

Waco Bicycle Club Saturday Ride
Where:   Olive Branch
When: Saturday 08:00 AM
What: Road/all levels
Distance: 37, 55 and 68 miles
Everyone meet at the new Olive Branch restaurant. click here

Ride departs at 8:00am every Saturday of the year. Those that want to meet at the Olive Branch before the ride for a coffee or even breakfast – awesome! During daylight savings time, the ride goes south on a fixed route, rain or shine. This will allow riders that arrive late, or that would like to join in somewhere along the route, to do so. After daylight savings time, the ride goes north on a fixed route, rain or shine. It will be open to all levels of road riders and will have set routes.
Saturday South Ride 37 miler. To view the route on “map my ride”: click here
Saturday South Ride 55 miler. View the route on “map my ride”: click here
Saturday South Ride 68 miler (affectionately referred to as the Spindoktor’s Renegade Ride)View the route on “map my ride”: click here …

With the low light with us now these gloves might come in handy.

These DIY Biking Signal Gloves Make Sure Every Car Sees Your Hand Signals
Alan Henry     lifehacker.com

Whether you’re biking or driving, everyone has to share the road, ideally in a safe way so no one gets hurt. These DIY signal gloves aren’t the prettiest around, but a little reflective tape on a pair of warm gloves will make sure any car on the road sees your hand signals and knows when you need to change lanes or turn well ahead of time.

Instructables user harmless_matt used a pair of mittens that have flip-up fingers so he could wear the gloves fingerless when he wasn’t biking, and then bring down the signals for use when he was moving around down. Just extend your hand out so the reflective arrow catches the…

Dill Road Adventure
Fort Worth Bicycling Association Club Ride
Saturday, December 29, 2012 10:00 am
The weather looks sunny and very cool.  Come join John and Susan for Dill Road Adventure.  10:00 am start
Routes
69 mile route
55 mile route
47 mile route
38 mile route
23 mile route

New Year’s Day Ride
Lone Star Cyclists
Pace: Touring (varied pace with frequent stops averaging 12-15 mph)
Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 – 9:00am
Location: Bike Center of Mansfield, 121 W Debbie Ln, Mansfield

Weather permitting, let’s start the New Year off the way it should be: with a bike ride! This route will take us southwest to I-35 (just south of Burleson) and back to Mansfield on two-lane country roads. Tim Williams will design a shorter route based on this one that will enable those who wish to get back sooner to do so.

Lunch: To be determined
Distances: 57 miles with a shorter cut-off to be determined
Ride Leader: Determined on-site

STCC Big Hangover Ride – New Years Day!
by sooner1                Shawnee Trail Cycling Club
Do you have your New Years Eve all planned out?  Big Party?  That special someone?  More party?

So what’s up the next morning?  We have put together a way for you to have a fantastic kick off to the New Year!  Starting at 9:30am, you’ll have a chance to get out and spin away those questionable decisions.  We’re having a great ride with a local start location, guaranteeing you won’t miss a minute of your favorite football game.  We’re offering at least two groups and distances, trying to keep the length of the ride down to keep the day enjoyable.

So, come out and join your ride buddies.  Everybody welcome, but non-members can avoid that pesky…

Race Preview – Holiday Hustle + The Most Awesome CX Race Weekend – Dec. 29-30, 2012
by joeyTWOwheels            Texas Cyclocross
We’re so Euro, we’re racing cross in December, yo.

Weekend promoter Jeff Lucido had himself a holiday and finally got in the sweet sweet details for TexasCX.com. Like Santa, we deliver:

2012HolidayHustle3New course in TXCX. Is there any other venue on the calendar that you can compare it to? Seems hard to compare it to anything, especially with Sunday being called The Most Awesome CX Race.
The weekend consists of two race venues. One completely new and the other a re-design of a course used last year. The Saturday course has some good long flowing sections and a few technical climbs. The Sunday course is pretty much not flat except for a nice section of long road which will have the start/finish area. Both courses contain singletrack sections but Sunday’s course contains two sections, one uphill and…

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