Select ride comments from the Active.com forum for the 8th. Annual Humble Lions Bike Ride Reviews
evaq wrote: “Improved registration check-in at site, start was on time, super traffic enforcement support by local police departments.  It was nice to have lunch provided afterwards. Everyone who helped was courteous and friendly. …”

RiderDale wrote: “I must disagree with the other reviews.  Normally I will not give a charity ride a bad review, I just will not participate in their ride until I see reviews mentioning improvement.  The law enforcement was great for the first and last 3 – 4 miles, other than that they were non-existent.  I witnessed four near misses as we went through the neighborhood at the beginning.  When we went under Hwy 90 the traffic volume was much to high to not have support. …”

dolpenys39 wrote: “I disagree with RiderDale. This is my third year doing this event and this year was by far the best. Police were at every stop except for the last stop light and the road was clearly marked. …”

There are additional comments.

Route and graphs from the Humble Lions Club Bike Ride
from houstonj
This is from an iPhone application. Neat graphs and charts. Map generated from the iPhone GPS.

Tri-County Hill Topper Ride Reviews
from Active.com Forums
Selected excerpts:
GageParker wrote: “Rain is a bit of an overstatement for weather of February 21, 2010.  Even drizzle might be too strong.  Mist feels much more like the correct word.  I did 37 as well and did not initially understand why loop 2 went counterclockwise while loops 1 and 3 went clockwise. Once on 1457 I understood.  Possibly the only MS 150 recommended course that helps you overtrain a little bit for the MS 150.   Rest stop at Harmonie Hall was great.  Peanut butter and Jelly or Peanut butter and honey sandwiches made while you watched.  Also like the opportunity to enjoy a warm lunch and a cold beer after the ride.   Two suggestions:

1) next year I would like to be able to download a TPX version of the course to my Garmin GPS enabled bike computer.

2) May want to think about more portapotties next year because I will recommend this ride to all my friends looking for a way to practice on the hills from Day 1 of the MS 150.”

Lane B. wrote: “I’ve done this ride twice now and enjoyed it both times, even though it was raining there this weekend. The ride takes you through some beautiful country. Traffic was minimal so you didn’t have to worry about a lot of cars/trucks on the road. It’s definitely a ride to put on your list to do even if you do it once.”

Project O Week-Asking About that Bike Path on Tx Hwy 144 in …
by salon
Pretty obviously, last week I spent a significant amount of time looking at safety features for my bicycle. Where I live there is NO way to get to town without travelling on a highway, either Hwy 144 or Hwy 67. Therefore, I have coming to me a strobe tailight that I can use during the day but even better would be to have either something marked off as a biking lane on 144 or 67, OR a bike path. …

BPAC, Cycle Tracks & Bike Racks; oh my!
by bike friendly knox-henderson
North Central Texas Council of Government’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) held its first meeting of the year this past Wednesday. You may be wondering what NCTCOG and BPAC are, and what they have to do with Knox-Henderson, or any sorta bike friendliness.

NCTCOG is an organization of governments in the metroplex (known to planners as an MPO or metropolitan planning organization). …

The Zoey Blog: Beautiful Bicycle…I Can’t Get You Outta My Head
by Brian DeWagner
BUT, if you make me pick between a bike ride on a brand new bike in some amazing place or advancing my career…uhmmm, I’m taking the bike ride. Off the top of my head I’m thinking about riding up and down the North San Diego coast…maybe even venture … Bike around Austin Texas during the SXSW festival…get my bike and my groove on at the same time! Or Spring Training…yeah, Spring Training! I could bike around Flroida or Arizona catching ball games and sunshine. …

Biking In Dallas » Seen at the Bike Friendly Richardson Ramble Ride
by Christopher Curnutt
Bike Lane on Custer Road in Richardson, Texas. Bike Friendly Richardson hosted their second group ride last Sunday. I missed their inaugural ride so I was pleased to make this one. Hubbard and I both has business to attend to at …

Pace Bend Road Race
by tilford97
Pace Bend wasn’t the easy roll around race that it has been in the past, mainly because it was breeze/windy. And pretty hot for February. I’m not sure how fast the wind was blowing or from what direction, but it was windy enough to make the race hard. The Pace Bend race is 13 laps of a 6.25 mile course. There are two medium hills (big ring) and the rest just rolls. The start isn’t at the start line and a few guys, including Kristian House, missed the start. …