Texas Bicycle News Digest July 25th
Off-roader ruins city bike trail
by Claire Kowalick      www.timesrecordnews.com
WICHITA FALLS, Texas – One man’s joyride has become a nightmare for Hotter’N Hell Hundred bike ride organizers who maintain the Wee Chi Tah trail.
A man with long blond hair has been seen over the past two years riding a blue Enduro-style off-road motorcycle with no tags through the Wee Chi Tah and…
New Bike Czar Ashley Haire On The Roadblocks To Making Dallas Bike-Friendly
By Krystina Martinez & Rick Holter      keranews.org
No doubt about it: North Texas is car country. The League of American Bicyclists ranked the 70 biggest U.S. cities in share of bike commuters, and four of the bottom 12 were in North Texas. Dallas came in at No. 65, and the city’s new bike czar. Ashley Haire, is determined to change that. She sits down with KERA’s vice president of news, Rick Holter, in this week’s Friday Conversation.
Interview Highlights: Ashley Haire…
…On the effectiveness of ‘sharrows’ in Dallas:
“I think they work in the right situations. Ideally, they’re really only for roads that have speed limits of 35 miles or less, and when you get that speed differential between cars and bicycles, that’s when it can be really dangerous. That’s when we…
The Bayou Greenways Plan: A Game-Changer for Houston?
by Angie Schmitt      streetsblog.org
Houston’s Bayou Greenways plan is perhaps the largest active transportation project in the country right now — if residents can actually use it for transportation when it’s completed.
Jen Powis of the Houston Parks Board has described the greenway project as a cross between the Atlanta Beltline and the Portland Bike Master Plan, which “re-envisions transportation†in the city. The project is undoubtedly ambitious, but it remains to be seen whether the city will create safe street-level walking and biking connections to the greenway network.
Construction of the Bayou Greenways is already underway. Once complete, it will consist of a comprehensive network of greenways and walking and biking trails along the city’s many natural bayous.
The plan comes from a blueprint more than 100 years old. It was part of early city planner Arthur Comey’s vision for the Houston park system back in 1912. And in…
Bikepacking basics
by Karen Brooks      www.peopleforbikes.org
If you’re at all interested in adventuring on two wheels, you’ve probably run across the term “bikepacking.†This is exactly what it sounds like: a self-supported camping trip in a natural setting, but using a bike as transportation instead of walking. The big advantage over backpacking is that, just like on city streets, you can get farther and see more on two wheels than you can on two feet. Remote areas that would be all but inaccessible to a backpacker can be reached much more easily by bike. And even if you’re not up for a grand long-distance journey, you can still discover hidden gems during…
Biking With The Indian Ghosts Pondering No Good Deed Going Unpunished If Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
Durango Texas
That’s the pool and hot tub view from my patio prison cell you are looking at on the left.
That view is currently scheduled to change this coming October, with a new view north, rather than this old view south.
I was up not long after the sun this morning, with a long swim before a short breakfast.
After several hours of fussing with HTML code type aggravation I felt the…
New Events Added to Texbiker.net Calendar
New Bike Event: Lake Travis Cycling Classic – Lakeway, TX: When: Sun Oct 12, 2014 7am to 10amÂ
CDTWhere: 415 R… http://t.co/Yz4NF6nbR8— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) July 25, 2014
New Bike Event: The Texas Time Trials – Glen Rose, TX: When: Thu Sep 18, 2014 6pm to Sat Sep 20, 2014 7:30pmÂ
… http://t.co/LPe6DtZ7lA— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) July 25, 2014
Tweets
https://twitter.com/clarissamarie5/status/492852325149859840
Evening ride on the single track bike trails in Mission, Texas. This trailhead sign is definitely… http://t.co/rLP9VvjpPc
— Omar C. Garcia (@omarcgarcia) July 26, 2014
Rolling out soon! pic.twitter.com/gd4acPqYCb
— Critical Mass Houston (@HoustonCM) July 26, 2014
https://twitter.com/pedalfree/status/492668689674555392
Bicycle Maintenance Clinic http://t.co/njN15ncKJC
— Texas MTB Trails (@TexasMTBtrails) July 25, 2014
https://twitter.com/txbikeracing/status/492700369785339905
Come out and join us! pic.twitter.com/jA018lOYeD
— VeloPaso (@velopaso) July 25, 2014
Sammi and Katie both on podiums at the @DrivewaySeries this week! Well done!
— ATC Racing (@ATCRacingTeam) July 25, 2014
Event Reminder
2 Day Alert: Rebelution Cycling 1st Annual Nopalooza MTB Race – Laredo, TX,, Jul 27, 2014 08:30AM – Copper Mine Rd, Laredo, TX 78045, US
— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) July 25, 2014