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Texas Bicycling News Roundup April 29th

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Local agencies work together in bicycle project

by FAITH HARPER        www.tylerpaper.com

Five government entities are coming together to transform an abandoned railroad into a hike and bike trail.
For several years the Northeast Texas Regional Mobility Authority has been interested in purchasing the tract of land that used to connect Whitehouse and Troup by rail, the transportation authority’s interim Director Everett Owen said.
The actual purchase of the 8.2-acre tract was made possible through a $400,000 grant from the Texas Department of Public Safety. The city of Tyler, Tyler Economic Development Council, Troup Community Development Corporation, Smith County and NET RMA each put in $25,000 to …

Daughter honors late father, Gainesville Police Chief

By: Kristin Nill        www.kxii.com


GAINESVILLE, Tx – Maegan Fleming is getting ready for the ride of her life this weekend to honor her dad.
She’s prepping for a 150 mile bicycle ride from Houston to Austin, May 2nd. She helped create the ride as a tribute to her father, late Gainesville Police Chief Steven Fleming and other officers who died in the line of duty.
“I’m really honored to be able to ride for such great men and also for all the fallen officers just to be riding for all of them,” Maegan said.
This is the first year for the Texas Peace Officer’s Memorial Ride, which …

Ride across Texas helps connect, rehabilitate injured veterans

JC Jones | Herald staff writer        kdhnews.com


Last year Maj. Jan Rose came to Fort Hood’s Warrior Transition Unit after incurring a serious illness while deployed, and found she had a lot of free time on her hands during recovery.
To fill the time, she took up biking in the fall.
Though she’d only ridden as much as 25 miles at a time, Rose found herself pedaling from Houston to Fort Worth last week in the Ride 2 Recovery Texas Challenge, alongside nearly 200 other veterans who have …

Upcoming Rides

El Paso Bicycle Club

Saturday, May 2
60 is the new 40-8:00 am
B.I..G. Valley Ride-8:30 am
Wednesday, May 6
Wednesday Night Ride-5:30 pm
Thursday, May 7
Thursday Night Rollers (Ninja Ride)-5:45 pm
Saturday, May 9
A Ride for Mom-9:00 am
Wednesday, May 13
Wednesday Night Ride-5:30 pm
Thursday, May 14
Thursday Night Rollers (Ninja Ride)-5:45 pm
Wednesday, May 20
Wednesday Night Ride-5:30 pm
Thursday, May 21
Thursday Night Rollers (Ninja Ride)-5:45 pm

The VC Team at Fort Davis.

by John Bartle        violetcrown.org


Half of the starting field in the 60+ race at Hammerfest this year was VC; Frank Kurzawa, Mike Haney, Joe Haas and John Bartle. Could we prevail over the other four riders on three different teams? Our competition proved to be Charlie Johnson and Val Lincecum of Southwest Cycling Club Racing (SWCC).
The Men’s 60+ race was combined with both the Women’s Open and the Women 3/4 races, so it was a cozy pack of about 20, of mostly Austin riders, that set out on the Saturday morning hill climb stage in a light wind. The pace was steady, with each group respecting the strategic moves of the other group; that is, until the route got seriously steeper and the lone Tulsa Wheel’man’ woman attacked. Frank went with her and Charlie Johnson and John Bartle settled in with three ATC women chasers who kept the …

More VCers on the Podium!

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Dan Piercy digs deep in the sprint to the line in the Pace Bend 40+ 1/2/3/4 race. The season is young and lots of …

Bikeabout TX

By Gordon Hodge        www.crazyguyonabike.com

Day 13 Huntsville, TX to near North Zulch,TX: Leaving the ST, heading NW, winds NW
Tuesday April 28, 2015, 53 miles (85 km) – Total so far: 501 miles (806 km)
I have decided to head back toward home. I am not quitting my tour as much I would like to keep going to Florida. This was supposed to be a 1-2 week bike about and I have done. I am loving the tour so far and it is hard to turn homeward. There is still a few days of roads to explore, though most of these are areas I have been in my earlier years. The area should appear quite different at 10 or less mph. The weather is forecast for NW winds and cooler for next several days.
I left the comforts of hotel in Huntsville at 0830. Skies were temps in the low 50’s, overcast and misty. I donned my windbreaker and soon had to put on rain jacket. Legs were fine, so didn’t wear rain pants. Getting out of Huntsville I made a wrong turn! I have driven this route 100 times 40 years ago and really stupid for making a wrong turn here. I noticed something wrong as I was surprised to have a nice shoulder and down wind ride. 2.5 miles later I figured out why at the next intersection. So I backtracked the 2.5 back to hwy 75 north toward Madisonville. 5 mile mistakes are no fun for cyclists. The road was way worse than I expected. There is now a lot of commercial traffic on the road with heavy traffic and 1-2 feet of crumbling shoulder. I found my first FM road west to get off this planned route. I took FM 1696 to Bedias and then …

Day 14- North Zulch to Marquez, TX: More headwinds
Wednesday April 29, 2015, 31 miles (50 km) – Total so far: 532 miles (856 km)
Had a good night sleep in my stealth site except for the 2 trains overnight that came through my tent or so it seemed. It was OK, I went quickly back to sleep. Overnight temp was around 47F, great sleeping weather in warm bag. I stayed in the bag a little long this morning as I did not want to go out in the cold. It was clear and sunny with a high of 73. I did finally get packed and moving about 0900 my norm. I did need my windbreaker early in the ride. 5 miles up the road I came into the small town of Normangee. I felt my rear tire going soft and aired it up and continued to find a breakfast café and worry about the tire later. I was directed to a local café. Before I got into the café, Bobby Davis saw my bike and was full of questions. While I was seated he came in and asked for a picture of me and my bike for the mayor’s wife working across the street. She wanted to post it on Facebook (FB). After the photo op, he was getting in his van for something to write my web address on. He is a safety products salesman. I asked him if he happened to have a safety vest. He gave me some compression gloves but no vest. Once back in the café, he came back in to talk some more. A really great personality. He said a guy was coming over with a vest for me. The guy, Ronnie Meadors the town mayor and business owner extraordinaire came by with a vest from the Normangee fire dept. He was the owner of the café. I felt like a celebrity given the key to the …

Progress on Cycing/Ped bridge over railroad tracks near the Domain

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The first two sections of the bicycle and pedestrian bridge on the southbound side of MoPac south of Duval Road are now in place. Once more piece to go.
Good to see some more connectivity here.  This is evidence that cycling advocacy is working slowly and surely.  Projects like these are on very large timescales and it takes commitment from all groups that their voices be heard even if the pay off is 10+ years away.  These HOV lanes were first proposed in 1994, CAMPO took it over in 2002, first public open houses were held in Oct 2011, by the second open house meetings in December the cycling community was …

APD Fills a Loophole: A crash is now a crash for Austin cyclists

Austin On A Bike        austinonabike.com


Last summer, when Austin cyclist Heather “Frankie” Frankovis got into an accident on the way to the Thursday Night Social Ride, she ran into more than just an errant jogger: she ran into the problem that, unless you hit or are hit by a motor vehicle in Austin, there’s little way to get justice, never mind insurance coverage.
At the time, according to the Austin Chronicle’s full write-up “When’s a Crash Not a Crash?“, “Officer Griffin didn’t initially complete a crash report ‘since the incident was not one that would normally require that an incident report be written: The officer responded to a call to assist EMS; however, no criminal offense had been committed. I did however, request that a report be written in this instance.’”
Now, thanks to the persistence of Frankovis and attorney Lenore Shefman, things are set to change.
Due to go into effect this Friday, on May 1st, APD will …

Market Watch: Why The Bottom is Falling Out From The Used Bike Market

A Bicycle’s Point of View        bicyclepointofview.blogspot.com

Wanting to sell your nice lugged, steel road bike? You may want to wait a couple of years.
There is no market indicator for the used bike market. Like all unofficial, unregulated cash in hand markets there is no “official” way for tracking improvement or decline of sales, especially when the sellers are people unloading their second-hand goods on others. However, as somebody who actually pays attention to these things, I have picked up on a market trend which will probably benefit consumers more than anyone else in determining what their next bike purchase will be.
If you, like me are a die hard vintage bike collector, now is not the time to keep adding old bikes to your collection. If anything, now is the time to start letting go of whatever old bikes you’re able to, probably at …

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