Texas Bicycling News Tuesday – April 23, 2024
First Records Broken and State Champions Crowned for 2024!
Great Houston Cycling Foundation | shoutout.wix.com
A fun team night at TNR was followed up by a huge weekend of racing where riders showed their early season form in TT"s and State Championships. Plus we have our first USAC Sanctioned TNR of the year tomorrow night! Registration is online only and closes at 6:30pm. Check out our Facebook and Instagram pages for announcements & photos.
Upcoming Events
6:45pm Tues 23rd Apr – TNR USAC Sanctioned
6:45pm Tues 30th Apr – TNR Sprint & Keirin Night
6:45pm Tues 14th May – TNR Bunch Racing
8:30am Sat 18th May – Atomic TT Series p/b Hammertime ProShop #2
6:45pm Tues 21st May – TNR Aussie Team & Mado
11am Sat 25th May – Intro to Track Class
6:45pm Tues 4th June – TNR Bunch Racing
11am Sun 9th June – Intro to Track Class
9am 10-12th June – LCYCL Summer Camp Wk1
6:45pm Tues 11th June – TNR Sprint & Keirin Night
9am 17-19th June – LCYCL Summer Camp Wk2
6:45pm Tues 18th June – TNR USAC Sanctioned
8:30am Sat June 22nd – Atomic Age Based TT Championships
8:30am Sun June 23rd – Super Sunday #2
6:45pm Tues 25th June – TNR feat. YCL Finals …
I Biked 165 Miles Behind the Pine Curtain of East Texas
By Morgan O’Hanlon | www.texasmonthly.com
Bikepacking—long-distance adventure cycling and camping—is on the rise in Texas. During the muddy, exhausting East Texas Showdown, I found out why.
On a damp March morning, I strapped bags full of camping gear to the frame of my gravel bike and joined about 250 cyclists for the fourth annual East Texas Showdown, one of the state’s biggest and longest bikepacking events. The starting line was in Point Blank, about twenty miles east of Huntsville. For the first hour or so, the pack rode east together, swarming the two-mile stretch of U.S. 190 spanning the massive breadth of Lake Livingston. Those first ten miles were deceptively smooth as we fell into pace and familiarized ourselves with the faces we’d get to know for the next 165 (or 280 or 400) miles. We said goodbye to the smooth highway as we turned onto our …
Mountain Biking at McKinney Falls State Park, Austin TX
Ken Simmons | www.youtube.com
More police patrols at Fort Worth Stockyards
By Tahera Rahman | www.nbcdfw.com
Police have increased patrols at the Stockyards, more measures may be on the way
… “An officer on a bike, it doesn’t matter what direction the traffic is going, the bicycle unit can go in and out of traffic, cross the street, ride on sidewalks, so they can get to that call for service quicker than a vehicle would,” he explained.
City council member Carlos Flores, whose district includes the Stockyards, said he’s trying to get more resources for a dedicated bike patrol in the area.
“Recently, specialized bicycles and equipment were donated to the Northwest Division for the division’s own bike patrol. In addition to specialized bicycles and equipment, there is necessary training for Bike Patrol officers,” Flores wrote in an email to NBC 5.
Project updates for the week of April 22, 2024
www.txdot.gov
… Smith County construction projects updates: Legacy Trails Extension
Limits: Stewart Park to Peete Elementary
Contractor: THK Construction LLC.
Cost: $3.5 million
Anticipated Completion Date: Fall 2024
The contractor will continue sidewalk and shoulder installation along Old Noonday Rd. There will be possible lane closures along southbound Frankston Rd. and on Old Noonday Rd. Project consists of a hike and bike trail development that includes construction of a 12-foot wide shared-use path.
College Station cyclist taken to hospital with life threatening injures following crash
By Megan Calongne | www.kbtx.com
COLLEGE STATON, Texas (KBTX) – One person was seriously injured in a crash involving a vehicle and a bicyclist Tuesday afternoon.
It happened at George Bush Drive and Holik Street around 4 p.m. According to College Station Police, the cyclist was traveling in the eastbound bicycle lane of George Bush Drive in an electric bicycle. The cyclist struck the passenger side of a pickup truck as the pickup was turning onto Holik from the westbound left turn lane.
The cyclist was transported to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries.
— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) April 23, 2024
The Bicycle Advisory Committee will convene in person at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 24. Join us or watch the meeting broadcast live on @HTVHouston https://t.co/zvAtXj4X25 pic.twitter.com/vg5KSZ0tHg
— Houston Bike Plan (@HoustonBikePlan) April 23, 2024
— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) April 24, 2024
— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) April 24, 2024