Originally Posted by
amcelroy
Hey Don,
Sorry, I can't respond to your PM until I hit 50 posts. Have you tried a route up through Lost Creek and over through Westlake? Stay safe!
I have not. I don't really have a clue how that would work. Can you elaborate? I live off Circle Drive past the "Y." Check the "MapMyRide" links for how I do it. Pretty clever if I may say so. The trick is coming through the neighborhoods to the service road that comes in the back of ACC Pinnacle Campus. (You have to go around a closed gate, no big deal.) You can come straight down the hill from ACC Pinnacle Campus and directly across 290 to Convict Hill Rd. I can leave the house at 5:50 AM and be sitting at Once Over Coffee on South First St. well before they open at 7:00 AM. Its 15 miles and I don't see but maybe 10-15 cars the whole way. Before I figured that out I told people there was no way I could ride to work because I'm damn sure not going to ride on 290!
Don in Austin