Texas Biking November 19th 2019
GPS Bike Trackers: find and follow your stolen bike
Michelle Arthurs-Brennan | www.cyclingweekly.com
Bike tracking devices and their supporting apps are designed to help reduce bike theft by alerting the owner if their bike is tampered with or moves.
Most trackers consist of an accessory, which is attached to the bike, and a phone app. With the app, the owner is able to trace the bike – even using it to alert the police to where the bike is being kept.
Most of the bike tracking accessories are small and lightweight, so that you’ll hardly notice it’s there other than the extra piece of mind afforded by its presence.
There’s a variety of bike trackers available – here’s a look at some of the options on the market …
Transportation Policy Council: October 25
H-GAC Transportation Newsletter: November 2019
… The TPC also approved a resolution supporting updates to the Federal Functional Classification System, which provides a framework for identifying the role of a roadway in moving vehicles through the network of highways. This update includes changes for Old Conroe Road from FM 1488 to 366. The change would consist of a reconstruction and widening of the two-lane facility to a four-lane with bicycle and pedestrian accommodations. The update would also include the widening of Greenhouse Road in West Harris County between Mound Road and Skinner Road and to be extended through a 6-lane underpass at the Union Pacific Railroad tracks and US 290 (with pedestrian and bicycle accommodations) to connect to Skinner Road just north of US 290. This project was selected in the 2018 Call for Projects and is programmed in the 2045 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). …
Former Hartlepool man saddles up for 100 mile cycle challenge in Texas countryside
By Mark Payne | www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk
Duncan Maclean, was born in the town and has lived in San Antonio, in the United States since 2001.
Next month, just after Christmas, he will push himself to cycle 100 miles around Leon Creek, in the San Antonio countryside on his mountain bike to raise money for the UK hospice that cared for his wife’s sister Melanie Nicholas.
Duncan, married to Delenia, and dad to Scarlett, 11, and Luke, aged nine, …
Wichita Bluff Nature Area Mysterious Oddities
Durango Texas | durangotexas.blogspot.com
Bike wheel rolling the Circle Trail hills in the Wichita Bluff Nature Area has become my new favorite endorphin inducing aerobic activity.
On my most recent wheel rolling at that location I came upon two mysterious oddities.
The first mysterious oddity is the …
Give Round Rock feedback for new Behrens Ranch Metro Park
By Albert | austinmountainbiking.com
If you’re in Round Rock, I just received an email soliciting feedback for the upcoming 224 acre Behrens Ranch Metro Park that is currently in development:
You can rank your priorities, so you can put "Trails" at the top in one question and "Mountain Bike Trals / Singletrack" at the top for another question. And there’s a comment section at the end, where I …