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Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for September 18th

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Waco: Retired Marine Bikes Across U.S. To Honor Fallen Troops
www.kwtx.com
(Video)
WACO (September 17, 2013) — A retired Marine of 15 years has made it her mission to ride her bike across the country in three months.
She is biking and driving from Camp Pendleton, California to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Maj. Jennifer Marino has completed her 38th day on her 77 day journey of honoring our fallen troops.
Maj. Marino not only wanted to complete her journey across the country but she also wanted it to have more meaning to it.
She decided to attempt to meet with…

‘Bikes, Bats and Brews’ ride along bayou next week
By Megan Mattingly-Arthur         www.chron.com
The Buffalo Bayou Partnership and Bayou City Outdoors will host the educational bicycling social event “Bikes, Bats and Brews” from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25.
The event will include a scenic bike ride, which will depart from Market Square Park, 300 Travis St.
Participants will ride through Buffalo Bayou trails and over Waugh Drive Bridge, where they can…

Green crusader biking to Texas
www.manitoulin.ca

HONORA BAY—Honora Bay’s Justin Tilson is known as a champion of green causes (his run in the 2011 provincial election for the Green Party in Ontario made this well known) and next month he plans to create awareness regarding climate change and what ordinary folk can do to make a difference by cycling from Manitoulin to Texas.
The trip is over 3,000 kilometres, but Mr. Tilson hopes to see it accomplished in seven to 10 days. “I want to prove that this is doable,” he said. That means putting in at least 300 kilometres and six or seven hours of pedaling a…

Bikes Belong rebrands
by Lynette Carpiet        www.bicycleretailer.com
National nonprofit boosts local and state support.
LAS VEGAS, NV (BRAIN) — Bikes Belong is rebranding as PeopleForBikes to bring clarity and simplicity to the organization. The Bikes Belong Coalition and Bikes Belong Foundation will be renamed the PeopleForBikes Coalition and the PeopleForBikes Foundation. Starting Wednesday, the opening day of Interbike, the Bikes Belong brand will no longer be used.
A new PeopleForBikes website, launched concurrently, will take the place of the organization’s three existing sites.
PeopleForBikes was a campaign of the Bikes Belong Foundation that started in 2010 to get one million pledges in support of bicycling.
The name change and restructuring will streamline the organization to a single brand and connect its industry-backed programs to…

Griggs and City Staff Explain 5th St Bicycle Sharrows
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff
Please see FAQs prepared by Staff regarding shared bike arrow markings or “sharrows” in Kidd Springs.
Please let me know if you have any questions.  The FAQs below were prepared by City Staff.  We are also in the process of preparing additional maps showing bike facility development in North Oak Cliff.
Thank you for your continued support for more bike facilities in our community.
1)      Why was 5th St selected for an east-west route in this area?
The 2011 Dallas Bike Plan identified multiple bicycle routes in the Kidd Springs Park area, specifically on Bishop and Zang.  The Bishop Ave. bike lane is already complete from Colorado to just north of Davis.  The proposed bike route on…

New Events

 

Reveille Peak Ranch Super D

Super D Trail, Reveille Peak Ranch near Burnet, Texas
I took the new bike build out to RPR for some dialing and testing, shot some video along the way. I had only ridden a part of the Super D before, and was eager to return.
Unfortunately I somehow lost the footage of the start of the…

Tuesday Ride at BCGB – Intermediate skill ride level
The Austin Mountain Bikers Meetup Group
Tuesday, September 24, 2013        5:30 PM
Barton Creek Greenbelt – 360 Access (beside brick office building)
3755-B Capital of Texas Hwy., Austin, TX (map)

Back to normal summer hours.
Please be there and be ready to roll by 5:30 pm. We will meet in the parking lot of the office building
Any question please call/text  me at…

Tuesday: Intermediate/Advanced Mountain Bike Ride at the Ant Hills
Houston Cycling Club
Tuesday, September 24, 2013        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…

Huntsville Mountain Bike Race – 2013 TMBRA
www.turnincranks.com

2013 Dave Boyd Huntsville Classic Mountain Bike Race
September 15, 2013<br />Men’s Cat 3 40-49
This is the 12th race in the year long TMBRA State Series

Shot 100% on GoPro Hero2 HD

The Dave Boyd Classic is held at Huntsville State Park in Huntsville, Texas. The venue is sandy, rooty, with many bridges spanning low laying marshy areas.

There isn’t a lot of elevation change, but…

Remaining fall race schedule
Texas A&M Cycling
Here is the schedule for the remaining mountain races. Look for sign-up sheets from Michael as the events approach.

Sept 21/22 Centenary College- Bossier City, LA
Oct 5/6 TAMU- Warda, TX
Oct 12/13 Baylor- Waco, TX
Oct 25-27 National Championships- Banner Elk, NC
Nov 1/2 Conference Championships- Burnett, TX

TTC Funds Transportation Enhancements Projects
www.BikeTexas.org
In July, the Texas Transportation Commission announced 81 projects around Texas that will receive funding from the Transportation Enhancements (TE) program. These projects were selected from the nominations received after a TxDOT call in September 2012.

BikeTexas is especially pleased about this round of projects because we fought to save this funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects in Texas. In 2007, TxDOT attempted to meet the federal government’s rescission requirements by…

Cyclist Awareness Fundraiser to benefit Giovani Ortiz
featuring MEGABIG
Sunday September 29, 2013
3:00 – 8:00 PM, live music at 6:00 PM
hosted by Micklethwait Craft Meats
1309 Rosewood Avenue – Austin, TX

Barbecue, beer, raffle, silent auction, bake sale, handmade Alaskan crafts, local artist showcase, fun and games for all ages.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1601604 … ?ref=br_tf
http://www.razoo.com/story/Juan-Giovani … ninsured-1

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It was Sunday night on May 5, 2013 that my life changed for ever.

I left Walgreen’s on South First and Stassney at 8:40 PM and headed towards Bramble Road to a friend’s house. At 8:45 on South First and Bramble I was struck, head-on, by a white truck being driven without any insurance. The impact broke my legs and sent me flying over the truck. I landed in the truck bed with two broken femurs, broken left tibia and fibula, cut-up nose, cracked tooth, sprained neck and…

Nine kids arrested for string of robberies on popular bike trail
by Pooja Lodhia     abclocal.go.com

HOUSTON (KTRK) — Police believe they’ve got a break in the case of multiple robberies along a popular hiking and biking trail. For weeks now, there have been reports of cyclists being jumped along the Colombia Tap trail that extends from downtown to Brays Bayou. …

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