1.3 million people live in San Antonio, TX – the seventh largest city in the United States. There are 3 active League Cycling Instructors in San Antonio. Yeah, we have our work cut out for us. No doubt our success, then, relies upon our ability to find great partners that can help us support cycling education in San Antonio. VIA Metropolitan [...]

Last weekend I biked 110 miles from San Antonio to Austin, TX as a participant in the annual Tour de Cure event.  This was my first major ride in 2011 and in a word it was : Incredible. Why? A great cause: I was able to raise over $500 to support the American Diabetes Association and the 24 million children [...]

“He walked in a nonchalant fashion, and his bicycle went with him as if it were a live thing.” — D.H. Lawrence, Sons & Lovers Bikes mean a lot to the folks that ride them.  Some folks even give their bicycle a name.  This is no surprise, of course, since bicycles play a variety of roles in people’s lives – [...]

Last Fall, my family and I took an Amtrak Train to Chicago.  We decided against a rental car and chose to walk, use public transportation or flag a taxi when we needed to get around.  Instead of stressing out about finding a parking space or paying parking fees, we explored quite a bit of Chicago on two feet…no, we experienced [...]

“We shall never surrender or retreat.” That was part of the famous message, Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, took with him when he was ordered by Colonel William B. Travis to leave the Alamo to seek reinforcements.  When Juan Seguin returned, the Alamo and its defenders had fallen. Seguin, TX – named after Juan Seguin in honor of his many contributions to [...]

When you use your bicycle as transportation, you spend a lot of time riding in traffic with cars.  As a result, adding a mirror to your bicycle can give you some situational awareness of what’s going on behind you. In my book, keeping a periodic eye on the world behind you in this age of distracted drivers is becoming a [...]

The “Year of the Bike” as I’ve described 2011 is finally starting to get some traction, despite Mother Nature.  She’s been working hard to sabotage my efforts with one of the highest recorded days of mountain cedar in the air and most recently the “South Texas Blizzard of 2011″ which just ended a day ago and left a nice layer [...]

There is a new king of the mountain in bicycle tail lights and it’s name is the Radbot 1000 by Portland Design Works. I don’t make this statement lightly, considering the strong contenders in bicycle tail lights on the market – lights like the almost legendary Planet Bike Superflash, or the Blackburn Mars 4.0 – but turn on the Radbot [...]

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Time to total up my bicycle mileage for 2010, reflect on this past year and set my sights on all that next year – 2011 – may bring. Mileage Totals: Commuting: 1,323 (biking to/from work) Training: 481 (preparing for cycling events/races) Fitness: 289 (general fitness rides) Recreation: 64 (family rides – fun focused, green [...]

Looking for an extra 1/2 billion dollars to help feed your local economy? As many sectors of the travel industry withered under the Great Recession, bicycle touring flourished.  A study in Wisconsin indicated that out-of-state visitors traveling to Wisconsin on a cycling-related vacation generated 532 million dollars in economic activity. This is serious business folks! This evening, I had the [...]