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Texas Bicycling News Digest June 3rd

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Night Bicycle Ride: Downtown San Antonio Texas

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Riding a bicycle ride on downtown city streets in San Antonio, Texas at night is visual treat as much as it’s a blast. Though I would prefer a little more action going …

Texas Man Cycles Down California Coast to Commemorate Son’s Harrowing AIDS-Related Death

By David Heitz        www.TheBody.com

David Flanagan watched his son Josh die a horrible, plague-era death, complete with bedsores, a collapsed lung, and health care workers who
seemingly knew very little about HIV/AIDS.
Except it wasn’t the plague era. It was 2013, in a small town in Texas.
David is riding his bicycle 545 miles down the California coast this week to tell the story of his son’s untimely death. He is participating
in AIDS/LifeCycle, which raised a record $16.4 million this year to help support …

Head for the mountains

By Joshua Trudell, For the Express-News


Jayden Hakala rides a trail on his mountain bike while wearing his champions jersey near Stone Oak Parkway. Hakala won the freshman boys category in the Texas High School Mountain Bike League, which completed its season in early May.
Cammie Robbiano and Jayden Hakala are two of the first out on the trail any time the San Antonio high school mountain biking team practices.
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2015 Texas 4000 team rolls into Pampa June 8

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Students on 70-Day ride to share hope, knowledge and charity in fight against cancer.
AUSTIN — On the longest annual charity bicycle ride in the world, the Texas 4000 team will be rolling through Pampa on Monday, June 8, just 10 days after departing from Austin, Texas on their way to Anchorage, Alaska.
While in Pampa, the 2015 Texas 4000 Team will celebrate and share hope, knowledge and charity with friends and family before continuing on their 70-day journey.
The 72 undergraduate and graduate students from The University of Texas at Austin will brave the rain, sleet, wind, snow, heat and pedal more than 4,000 miles in the fight against cancer. After 18-months of leadership development training, volunteering, fundraising, and cycling, riders are put to the test throughout their summer ride to …

Brownsville Named Bicycling Capital of the RGV by Texas Legislature

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The Texas Legislature passed House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 132 recognizing Brownsville the Bicycling Capital of the Rio Grande Valley on Monday, June 1. The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Eddie Lucio III in the Texas House of Representatives.
The resolution reads in part, “the City of Brownsville has carried out an innovative program to promote bicycling, and in so doing, the city has become a well-known center for this healthy and environmentally friendly activity.”
“This is a significant milestone for Brownsville,” said Brownville …

Austin Yellow Bike Project

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Community Shop
Continues through Monday, July 7th
All community shops are Kid Friendly June 2015!

Call to Action: Back the BAC Recommendations on the Quarter Cent Fund

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A quick call to action before I head back out of town (hence, the blog radio silence lately). As we mentioned after the BAC meeting in April, there was money to be doled out from the remainder of the Quarter Cent Fund. The Austin Bicycle Advisory Council has come up with there recommendations, which you’ll find embedded below. Christopher Stanton, BAC Chair, has put out the following call to action to the BAC email list:
Hello BAC mailing list,
My apologies for the last minute email (I only found out yesterday), but wanted to let you know that …

Bike trails could “help preserve park beauty”

by Tyler Mask        www.weatherforddemocrat.com

City of Weatherford Parks and Recreation, Weatherford City Council and the newly formed Weatherford Mountain Bike Club have been in discussion for several months regarding the club’s proposed project on multi-use nature trails for Soldier Spring Park. The conversation, which formally began at a Parks and Recreation Advisory Board has evolved into controversial topic, spurred by board member and then-acting chair Michael Anderson and wife, Laura, who live across from the park and have formulated a movement against the …

New Event Added to Texbiker.net Calendar

Tweets About Texas Bicycling

https://twitter.com/khwilliamson/status/606216883423965184

https://twitter.com/bicyclesplus/status/606136224429010945

https://twitter.com/BikePaulie/status/606129194716807169

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