Texas Rides
 

Does anybody in the DFW area have a site that lists all the tours/rides around the area for the summer?

Thanks Guys!!

River Region Classic
 

Has anyone done the River Region Classic that leaves from Garner State Park? I found it on a web site and it looks like it would be a pretty cool ride. Plenty of elevation, so I know I would have to work on getting prepared for it.

Bruce
Houston, TX

Yes, I did it two years ago and the riding is amazing. There is no comparison to the hills. I did the ~40 miles and the hills killed me and my wife on the tandem. The two routes that go north go over a long hill is a lot harder and I wasn't fond of driving it in the car. I would love to go back and try the challenging course but I know I am not prepared. The area is the prettiest place I have ridden in Texas. I would highly recommend it but you might want to drive the routes to decide which way you want to go.

Aggie_grad

I did it last year. I camped for two nights at Garner State Park and rode the 100 mile route. This is one of of my favorite parts of Texas, very scenic and much better example of the hill country than say, Fredricksburg which most people rave about. The ride web site is here: http://www.riverregionclassic.org/ , they have route maps on the web site. Virtually all of the hills are on route 337 between Leakey and Vanderpool and on route 1050 between the park and Utopia. Both of those routes cross the high ridge between the the Frio and Sabinal rivers. Most people consider the north route to be harder. If you are not used to climbing, driving them beforehand is probably good advice. I recommend the ride and will probably be going again this year.

Here's one I just heard about:

https://www.woundedwarriorproject.or...d=66&Itemid=60

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They will be having a multi day ride from San Antonio to Corpus Christi next March. I plan to participate, possibly riding down to the start in San Antonio from Ft Worth.

theres one in november www.wurstride.com . me and the gf are training for it :)

Do you have any more info on this? I can't find it on their calendar?
Thanks

It's listed at the bottom of that page, but there's no real information on it yet. Right now there's 3 or 4 of us talking about riding out of DFW. One of us is recovering from getting hit by a car (this guy: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=301115), so we're thinking about a pretty slow ride down, taking 3 1/2 to 4 days. Figure a week for the whole affair. With luck we can get the cooperation of some of the other clubs on the way down to guide us through some of the trickier parts of the route, or even jump on for the ride.

Probably could scam food and lodging in the Fort Hood area for one night, too.



I'm in contact with the event organizer and he's agreed to keep me updated of any news.

The Fort Worth Bicycling Association (www.fwbaclub.org) list the club rides plus most of the local rides. Look under the Events tab.

The Camino Real Cycling club has several well attended rides every week most of them are post on (www.bikemojo.com/speak/nb). Most of them start in Gruene and pre-drawn roads that are very fun and challenging. that bike site = bikemojo = has rides for all the south-mid Texas area. We always make new riders feel welcome. Many biking fools frequent the Bikeworks of N.B across from cici's pizza off I35.
Ask and they will get one of the maps off the wall. Lots of roadies and a few serious mtb'ers

Bikeworks in NB is awsome lots of cool stuff there. Im one of the local serious mtb'ers. I've been on several of the tuesday night camino rides. There fun and a challenge specialy fist time up kruger canyon isn't that fun.

New Year's Day ride tomorrow, northeast of Dallas:

http://www.bikinmike.com/03_oc/02_happynewrear.htm

Reviews are on bikestuff.

pmsummer posted a link to this map in the East Dallas Veloway thread, and I thought I'd get it in the stickied post here because it promises to be useful. This is detailed maps showing bicycle routes in Dallas. A lot of these are marked bicycle routes on regular streets, not necessarily a bicycle lane or bike path.
http://www.dallascityhall.com/pwt/bike_links.html
Note that you can click on each map, and it pulls up a larger version. Then when you do, at the top of the page, click where it says "image link" in the text and it will pull up a monster version that lets you read all the street names and stuff.

^^^^is BRUCKNER off of I-3O or I-35.?.thinking of showing up sun 22nd....thanks

That's Buckner, not Bruckner. There's another thread just for this ride, you may want to post there and make sure it's happening.

We have a comprehensive calendar of Austin area events, not DFW, but since there's no Austin-specific sticky I'll post it here. Austin Cycling Events Calendar at AustinOnTwoWheels.org.

We update this frequently and try to combine all the other community calendars so everything that's going on in the area can be seen all together.

Some additional links:
Dallas Critical Mass facebook site:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=151517650608#
I think this is fixed-gear oriented, but there's content, but no introduction, so hard to say for sure:
http://pedallas.com/
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff
http://bikefriendlyoc.wordpress.com/
Lone Star Randonneurs:
http://www.lonestarrandon.org/

Guys and Gals,

http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/2010...4154554?ref=ts

My cycling club is putting on this top notch event on Sunday, March 28th. We've been doing it for 21 years, and it's going to be a lot of fun! Here's the info:

http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=9766

Cheers

Hi

Could anyone give me some advice on routes for a 5-7 day self-contained camping tour this spring ?

starting where, finishing where?

Hello Texas. I started riding in July and I am really enjoying the challenge and the improved fitness. My son-in-law lives in Houston and has decided to get a road bike and has challenged me to ride in the Hotter Than Hell Hundred this summer. I want to do a century this year, but because of work the HTH is going to be tough to do.

I wanted to ask other riders in Texas if they could only do one century ride this year, which one would it be? And why?

Thanks,
Tony

For me, it would probably be the HH100. But a part of that is because it is only 3 hours away and I can drive up in the morning. If I lived in the Houston area, I might be looking closer to home.

The main attraction of the HH100 is not so much the ride as the overall event. If you had the same route, same time, and only had 100 riders every year, no one would get too excited about it. But the hoopla sort of feeds on itself. So it's worthwhile to me to go up there just so I can ride with 12,000 other people. Don't get to do that every day!

The HH100 is fairly flat, and the last three years that I've done it, it hasn't been terribly hot, either. Any rides in the Houston area itself will be even flatter (and the Space Race is the only one that comes to mind, but I'm not down there, either).

As far as fitness- get out and try some 100k rides in the summer and see how you're doing. If you can ride 100k and feel good, you're probably okay for 100 miles. If you do 100k and think you're going to collapse, maybe reconsider. Also keep in mind that Wichita Falls is drier than Houston, so effects of temperature aren't quite the same.

Check into Endurolytes or whatever it takes to keep you from getting cramps, which can be a ride-ender. Don't depend on the Powerade they give you to keep cramps at bay.

for the same reasons, you can come to the conclusion to skip the HH100 :/

12,000 people means a lot of hoopla to deal with - I'd rather there be 1000 people, but maybe that's because i've been through a couple crashes at the start of events because of a mess of not-as-skilled-riders trying to mix in with the fast guys. not a good combo to be around, so i can't imagine how long it takes for 12,000 riders to sort themselves out in the beginning.

So actually, there are 2 centuries that i'd recommend. first one is in May - the GASP! This is the austin to shiner ride (www.shinergasp.com), and on the same day they have the houston to shiner ride. i've only done the austin route the past 2 years, and both times have been quite fun. this is a one-way route, meaning you either drop a car off the night before, have someone meet you down there, or you take the bus back to the start. i think there were something around 2-3,000 people this year.

the 2nd one is at the end of the season - the Livestrong ride. this one you need to raise money for, but it's for a good cause. it's kind of hilly, as it is a nice 92 mile loop around south/west austin (dripping springs). really nice views, and the rest stops are great. this was my first year doing that one, and i'm definitely doing it again.

i dont know of any other century rides other than HH100. At the autumn in bonham ride a few months ago, they had mentioned that they might be doing a longer route (longer than 100k) in 2011, so that is another possibility. Pretty sure all the other rides i know about are 100k's max.

Thanks! these are exactly the type responses I was looking for. Please keep them coming. As far as fitness goes, my longest ride so far is 55 miles on Wednesday. I ran out of daylight and not energy. I feel like a century won't be a problem as long as I keep progressing. I use the Nuun tabs in my water bottle every day. My son-in-law runs marathons so I doubt the century will be a problem for him.

Take a look at this post about a pretty amazing bike ride near Buffalo Gap, TX: http://www.montaguebikes.com/folding...go-in-one-day/

There is a charity ride this weekend in Lewisville called Ride Ataxia Dallas on March 26th, 6, 10, 25 and 50 mile routes. I will be there doing the 50 mile route.