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Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for April 12th

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Today is Bike to Work Day in Houston!
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HOUSTON (KTRK) — Don’t be surprised if you see a lot of two-wheeled vehicles on the road today because it’s Bike to Work Day here in Houston.

All over the city, bike shops are planning group rides for people to participate in…

Memorial – Work Party
GHORBA
Event category: General
Trail: Memorial Park
Sunday, April 28, 2013 – 1:00pm
Memorial Park work party will be taking place on Sunday, April 28th at 1 PM.
We will meet at the Dog Wash Station, GHORBA provides the tools. Tasks may vary from removing some of the fallen trees, trimming and some deberming. We’ll probably work for about 2-3 hours and may break out into smaller groups to accomplish other tasks depending on how many attendees we have. …

Bike Rodeo/Safety Fair to be held
www.brenhambanner.com
A Bike Rodeo/Safety Fair, sponsored annually by Brenham High School’s Anchor Club, will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Walmart parking lot.
Activities include a clinic on bike safety staged by the Brenham Police Department, races, a bike decoration contest and the Brain Minders puppet show in which characters like Gerald Giraffe reminds children to wear helmets when biking or using skates.

National Road Racing Standings
cyclingillustrated.com
Men’s
18Hector Rangel (PLANO, TX)16
23Heath Blackgrove (AUSTIN, TX)6
Women’s
10Lauren Stephens (DALLAS, TX)50

Beautiful wildflowers in Texas
By Pat Rush            www.dailygazette.com

Any cyclist who rides the highways knows about trash. You have your eyes on the front wheel most of the time, gazing a bit to the left or right, sometimes diverting your gaze to the strip of land beyond the shoulder upon which you’re riding.

There you see the trash, the broken bottles, the beer cans, the soda cans, the dirty diapers, the dead and decaying animal corpses. In the states I’ve been riding through, there are no bottle bills. The Adopt a Highway signs stand forlornly next to the unadopted highways.

A fortune in cans and bottles litter the roads across the…

Scholastic Racing Continues This Weekend in San Marcos, TX
www.usacycling.org

Cyclists from 20 different schools across Texas are expected to compete in a weekend of racing hosted jointly by Texas State University and the Texas High School Cycling League.   The weekend is the fifth of seven stops in the statewide scholastic road cycling series.  Students will compete in team-oriented races by competing in one of four skill-based categories: Boy’s A, Boy’s B, Boy’s C or Girl’s.  Each category will contest three races over the span of the action-packed weekend.  The action starts at 8:00am this Saturday with a road race followed by a 3 mile mostly uphill individual time trial that same afternoon.   Sunday morning…

Thursday Ride at Walnut Creek – Beginner/intermediate ride level
The Austin Mountain Bikers Meetup Group
Thursday, April 18, 2013        5:30 PM
Walnut Creek Park
12138 N. Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX (map)
Back to normal summer hours

This will be a beginner ride and will be doing around 8 -10 miles.

If someone is willing to lead a faster group then we can have an intermediate group also.
Please be there and be ready to roll by 5:30 pm. We meet in the parking lot near the pool in the middle of the island.

Any question please call/text  me at…

The Club Sunday Morning Group road Ride
Woodlands Cycling Club
Sunday, April 21, 2013, 08:30am – 11:00am
Start time: 8:30 AM.
Start location:
“WFNB” (Woodforest National Bank) at the SW corner of FM 1488 and FM 2978, next to McDonalds, the previous location of the Sunday ride, before Tailgators, aka the ‘BikeLane’ ride.

Cycling commute a dangerous proposition until proposal approved
By Tom Zizka, Business Reporter            www.myfoxhouston.com

HOUSTON (FOX 26) – Weekends see a lot of cyclists take to the road for recreation, but biking to work has a long way to go before it catches on.

While Houston marked Bike to Work Day on Friday with a demonstration ride to City Hall, only about half a percent of commuters pedal to the workplace.

Josh Hargrave is one of those people.

He’s not a traditional cyclist, decked out in spandex and fancy equipment. Hargrave just…

Ouachita Challenge 2013
www.bigpigracing.org
We had a great showing of Big Pigs again this year at the Ouachita Challenge. Most of us raced the tour!  This year the weather was great, better than the hot and dry of last year!  Wanna congratulate those that finished, especially the green horns doing it for their first time. Tara Malone finished for her first time, riding with Susan Dean as her support and inspiration. Great work! It’s tough to finish the 60 miles of mountainous single track/jeep road when you haven’t done it.

And Congratulations to Dana Burch, he was on fire this year! At beginning of tour (race) before we even got to dirt road climb his pedal broke (the oh so reliable egg beaters), body came off the spindle and he had to head back to the truck. I saw him going the other way fast and thought, something bad…

Division West soldiers participate in Ride 2 Recovery
www.dvidshub.net
FORT HOOD, Texas – Six Division West soldiers traded their baggy camouflage uniforms and bulky combat boots for skintight Spandex shorts and featherweight cycling shoes to ride in the Killeen-to-Waco leg of the Ride 2 Recovery – Texas Challenge April 11.

“It’s truly a great experience to have all these people together and to feel the camaraderie,” said Sgt. 1st Class Connie Burt, a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, Division West, who regularly competes in triathlons and…

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