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Texas Bicycling News April 27th 2022

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Midland Trail Park to have opening Saturday

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The Permian Basin Bicycle Association and West Texas Trail Alliance are welcoming the public to the Midland Trail Park grand opening on Saturday.

The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the park, 3215 Farm-to-Market Road 307.

The event will feature basic bike prep and maintenance clinic, bike gear clinic, lunch and speakers, a medium pace group ride of the complete trail, a women’s group ride and beginner and family group ride on the green trail. The trail park features a hiking and trail running area, disc golf, skills park and all skill level trails. There will also be a mountain bike raffle, bike clinics, burgers and hotdogs plus door prizes.

Park officials have stated there is not an entrance fee and if a person decides …

Video: Central Texas dad trains for 600 mile bike tour to raise awareness for organ donation

By Megan Vanselow | kwtx.com

BELTON, Texas (KWTX) – On May 7, Chance Sebek will join eleven other bikers to ride 600 miles through Texas, honoring transplant donors, recipients and those on the waiting list with the Lone Star Circle of Life Bike Tour.

“I was very fortunate to apply and be selected to be a rider in the tour,” Sebek said.

He says he got into cycling during the pandemic, but has had an interest in raising awareness for organ donation for the last 12 years, when it saved his daughters life.

“She had a liver transplant when she was 5 1/2 months old and she has been doing great ever since,” his wife Megan explained. …

Texas’ first ski-lift bike park takes mountain bike adventures to new heights in the Hill Country

By Celestina Blok | dallas.culturemap.com

At Spider Mountain Bike Park in Burnet, what goes up must come down.

Located on Lake Buchanan about an hour northwest of Austin in the Hill Country, the attraction is the only year-round ski-lift bike park in the U.S. (In fact, it’s the only place in Texas with a ski-lift, period.) Opened just before the pandemic, in 2019, the park draws mountain bikers from across the country for its year-round access to downhill, gravity-fueled biking terrain.

Here bikers (and their bikes) ride a chairlift called the Texas Eagle up 350 feet to the mountain’s peak, where they can choose from one of 10 different bike trails — from beginner to expert — to cruise back down.

“To have a chairlift in the middle of the Hill Country is really exciting whether you’re a …

Texas sisters with multiple sclerosis ready to bike the MS 150 this weekend

Lindsay Peyton | www.houstonchronicle.com

Saturday marks the culmination of a 10-year journey for Cypress resident Karen Adewale.

That’s how long it has been since she promised herself to tackle Bike MS: Texas MS 150, a two-day bike ride that is a major fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Adewale planned to compete, but COVID-19 canceled the 2020 event, and rain shut out the 2021 ride.

This is her year, she said. …

7,500 cyclists in county on Sunday

By Jason May | www.brenhambanner.com

The 38th annual Bike MS Texas 150 will bring an estimated 7,500 cyclists through the Burton and Somerville region of Washington County on Sunday.

On Saturday morning, cyclists will be departing from Houston and Austin before meeting up in La Grange.

Improvements from Bonnie Road to West 35th Street

www.austintexas.gov

Austin Public Works and Austin Transportation have partnered to complete a transformational sidewalk project on Exposition Boulevard this month. The new improvements extend from Bonnie Road to West 35th?Street and include new and repaired sidewalks, curb ramps, pedestrian crossings, and intersection safety improvements. This work completes a fully ADA-accessible route on either side of Exposition Boulevard from Lake Austin Boulevard all the way to West 35th Street. The improvements also create a safer route for students to walk or bike to nearby Casis Elementary School and O. Henry Middle School and safer access for everyone to neighborhood day care centers, libraries, churches, stores, and parks.

“Every child should be able to walk or bike to school safely,” said Mayor Pro Tem Alison Alter of Council District 10, where these safety and mobility improvements are located. “While these safe routes are created for …

Wounded warriors cycle into Killeen auto dealership

By Thaddeus Imerman | kdhnews.com

With the clanging of nearly a dozen cow bells and a police escort to aid them in, several wounded warriors and first responders rode their bicycles into the parking lot of Cleo Bay Subaru in Killeen on Wednesday afternoon. The riders were taking part in the six-day Ride 2 Recovery Challenge, organized by Project Hero, that spans 500 miles.

Officials from the dealership on East Stan Schlueter Loop organized a lunch for the riders to partake in, which is something it has done since 2016, save for two years the ride did not take place because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s one of the most rewarding things that we get to do as an organization,” said Michele Marquez, the assistant controller of Cleo Bay Subaru. “You’re looking at people that are wounded warriors and first …

Southern Tier Bicycle Tour – March 22, 2022 – ?

By cjlaskey | www.crazyguyonabike.com

Day 35 : Sierra Blanca, Texas to El Paso, Texas

Monday April 25, 2022, 145 miles (233 km) – Total so far: 2,347 miles (3,777 km) I was up later than usual or so I though as my iPhone did not update automatically to the earlier mountain time. I thought I was leaving at 7:30 but it was really 6:30. Oh well. Of all my days riding on this tour this was one of the easiest thanks to downhills and good tail winds. Along the access at …

Day 36 : El Paso, Texas to Las Cruces, New Mexico

Tuesday April 26, 2022, 45 miles (72 km) – Total so far: 2,392 miles (3,850 km)

Superflying the leeve

Superflyspin ? jack snider | strava.com

Cibolo Hump Day

Francisco Simas | strava.com

Wednesday

Eduardo Salas (Cyclones) | strava.com

Texas MS 150 to end in College Station for the first time

By Conner Beene | www.kbtx.com

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – Expect a part of College Station to transform into one large bike trail on Sunday. The largest multiple sclerosis fundraiser in the nation the Texas MS 150 bike ride will end at Kyle Field for the first time in its over 30-year history.

Residents can expect to see over 7,000 cyclists near Texas A&M’s campus on Sunday. The event was supposed to come to College Station a few years ago but things out of the committee’s control put a stop to their plans. “2020 we had the pandemic and last year we, unfortunately, had some thunderstorms, so we’ve ordered some unbelievable weather for Saturday, April 30th and May 1st so …

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In 1999 I had a burning desire to create a web site focused on Texas bicycling. Over the years this web site has existed many people have visited. As I think of information I need to bicycle I add them to the web site.

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