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Texas Bicycling News April 26th

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Some bad luck in yesterday’s Stage 3 Road Race when Colin and Kevin got caught up in a crash in the final 200m, but today’s a new day and we’re rested and ready for the final day of the Joe Martin Stage Race.

Fayetteville 2015

U23 Development Team

Great weekend of racing for the U23 Development Team at the Lapeze & Johns Fayetteville Stage Race! Although John Paul had some back luck with some early mechanicals and flats, TC and Issac worked together and finished strong in the GC at 5th & 6th! Some podiums and some cash too! …

Hill Country Ride for AIDS raises funds with bike ride

By William Malm        kxan.com

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — The 16th annual Hill Country Bike Ride for AIDS took place on Saturday with over 400 cyclists riding through Central Texas.
Ten AIDS service organizations came together more than 15 years ago to create a cycling event to raise money to fund services for people affected by HIV and AIDS in Central Texas.
In fourteen years, the Ride has distributed more than …

Motorist hits 10-year-old on bicycle

By JC Cortez        amarillo.com

A 10-year-old boy was taken to a local hospital with a head injury and broken bones after he was struck by an SUV just before 8 a.m., April 23 at the intersection of South Georgia Street and Southwest 16th Avenue, Amarillo police said.
The boy was heading to school, riding his bicycle east on Southwest 16th when he was struck by a GMC Terrain driven by Jessica Ann Fajardo, 27, of Amarillo, traveling south on …

Cycling in Caprock Canyons provides adventure

By Mark Moser        lubbockonline.com


Jumping out of a comfortable bed at 5 a.m. to bicycle more than a 100 miles feels like jumping out of a good airplane.
Though, when the noise of the city fades, substituted only by the crunch of gravel beneath your tires, the reluctance is replaced by a gravitating pull toward the horizon.
Last week, that pull took me to Caprock Canyons State Park. Hours of poring over maps reveal a route of nearly 90 percent gravel roads connecting to …

Go for an easy beginner ride

Saturday, May 2, 2015, 9:00 AM

Performance Bicycle
7549 Westheimer Rd Houston, TX

1 Cycling Enthusiasts Went

You’re invited to join our Saturday morning, beginners group ride starting from and ending at our W. Houston, Performance Bicycle store. The ride is for beginners and those getting back on the saddle. The average pace will be between 10 and 14 miles per hour and the ride will last approximately one hour. We’ll explore some of the local bike paths a…

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Overcast skies can’t dampen Wounded Warriors visit

By PAUL GNADT        www.keenestar.net


Overcast skies didn’t dampen the atmosphere of the seventh annual visit of more than 200 Wounded Warriors who bicycled into Keene for breakfast Friday morning.
The riders are wounded military veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who rode in the seventh Ride 2 Recovery Texas Challenge.
The riders arrived in Keene about 8:50 a.m. and stopped to eat at Callicott Student Park on the …

El Clásico Bicycle Race

Saturday, May 2, 2015, 2:00 PM

Downtown El Paso
Exact location TBA El Paso, TX

3 Cyclists Went

The first-ever event offers road, criterium and sprint races Saturday and Sunday, May 2-3. Information: elclasicorace.com. The 45-mile road race will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday in Downtown El Paso. There will be a couple of checkpoints along the route through the valley before arriving in Las Cruces. The race will end at the 3rd Annual Blazin Beerfe…

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Saturday Beginner Ride

Saturday, May 2, 2015, 10:00 AM

Performance Bicycle
4750 Fm 1960 Rd W Houston, TX

1 Bicycle Enthusiasts Went

The ride starts from the Performance North Houston store location.  We do not ride on 1960 but go through the neighborhoods to start the ride.  The ride is approximately 10 miles and pace is based on participants for the day.  It is a No Drop Ride.Please bring a helmet, spare tube, waterbottle, positive attitude 🙂

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The 2015 BP MS150

the surly biker

Last weekend was our 2nd BP MS150. Unfortunately, weather cut the event in half – the MS Society and event coordinators canceled day 1 of the ride due to bad conditions. It had been raining and storming heavily on and off all week, and we got nailed again Thursday night and Friday night. This caused the campgrounds at the half-way overnight point in La Grange almost completely flooded leaving no place to put 13,000 riders and their tents. With the threat of more storms Saturday night, having a bunch of tents in a soppy field isn’t the best in an electrical storm either. This was only the 2nd time in the entire 31 years the MS150 has been …

Texas Hill Country: Groundroll 8

the surly biker

A few weeks ago, our company’s EVP invited the wife and I to participate in an invite only small gathering of folks from the E&P industry in the Texas Hill Country. Every year, they get together and bike different routes Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We’ve never been out to Hill Country before, so we were really excited – especially since it’s such an elite event. We knew we wouldn’t do as well as the regulars because we aren’t super strong cyclists and we’ve never biked in hills like that before, but we were pumped anyway.
It’s held in the little town of Fredericksburg, TX. It’s about a 3 hour drive west from Houston. It’s a fabulous, old, little town with …

The Long Road Back

by Bike Noob

The great concert pianist, Ignace Paderewski, is quoted as saying: “When I miss a day of practice, I know it. When I miss two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss five days, the audience knows it.”
As you know, I’ve missed the equivalent of a month on the bike, with just a few days sprinkled in there where I actually got a chance to ride. And boy, do I know it.
Our friend, Don Blount, has just told us about the rehabilitation regimen he’s putting himself through to return to biking from surgery. Don is a focused, goal-driven kind of guy. I take more of a recreational approach to my biking. I want to have a good day on the bike, maybe …

2015 BP MS-150

Cycling Space City

The largest charity bike ride in North America is the BPMS-150.  It is a two day ride from Houston to Austin with a mandatory fundraising amount of $400 for every rider.  The ride is capped at 13,000 riders!  Last year, 2014, the ride raised over $20 Million for the MS Society.
This year because of epic rains for a week leading up to the ride, the overnight campground at the La Grange Fairgrounds was too flooded and the ride organizers cancelled the first day.  Since I had friends and family, many from outside Texas, donating $$ for me to do this ride I didn’t want them to think I spent Saturday on the …

Lower Crabapple Ride

Pit’s Fritztown News

As we had some wonderful weather – well, except for the wind [of up to 15 miles per hour in gusts] – I went on a bicycle ride again on Lower Crabapple Road. I hadn’t exactly planned it, but when I felt that today I had really good legs I did all of Lower Crabapple, from it’s beginning at the intersection with TX 16 [N. Llano Road] …

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