Tour du Rouge

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In case the Houston to Austin MS150 is not enough of a challenge for you, the Houston chapter of The American Red Cross is putting together the initial Tour du Rouge. The Tour is 480 miles over 6 days riding from Humble, TX to New Orleans.

According to Dale Robertson’s Cycling Notebook column in the November 29th Houston Chronicle, The new Tour du Rouge is throwing down the gauntlet to you BP MS 150 regulars by asking, "Are you ready for a real challenge?"

An informational session explaining the ride is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday (Dec. 1st.) at the Greater Houston Chapter headquarters, 2700 Southwest Freeway at Kirby.

For additional information about this event, contact Dory Cayten at dcayten@ghac.org or 713-313-1668.

 

Austin ISD Cycling Club

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from the Texas High cycling League website:

The Austin ISD Cycling Club has launched a website www.aisdcycling.com and a link to their site has been placed on the clubs page of the League website. In addition two new clubs in the Dallas area have had their first official club meetings and now have a core group of interested students. Bishop Lynch high school had a meeting a few weeks ago and Highland Park high school also recently had their first meeting. We welcome both schools and clubs to the league.

The Kipp Academy’s MS150 Team Training Hits a Bump

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I ran across this blog story of the Kipp Academy 8th grade team’s adventure on a recent trip to their first training ride in Sealy. Prior to this trip their training rides were in the Kipp Academy parking lot. The team’s sponsors work to keep things going.

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D-FW gears up for more trails, more cyclists

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from The Dallas Morning News (full article link)

By JOE SIMNACHER / The Dallas Morning News
jsimnacher@dallasnews.com

Urban planners are looking to enlist more mild-mannered Clark Kent-like bicycle commuters to help battle Dallas-Fort Worth’s air-pollution and traffic congestion woes.

They want more people to consider bicycle commuting for short distances, either directly to work or to link to mass transit. The enlistees need not be faster than a speeding bullet or more powerful than Lance Armstrong.

"We have this picture of cycling commuters as being like supermen, and that discourages other people from doing it," said P.M. Summer, transportation alternatives coordinator for the city of Dallas. "When I came into this job, our thinking was we needed to enable cyclists to make 40-mile bike trips. Now my thinking is we need to have development in place that allows a cyclist to make a one-mile bike trip."