Texas Bicycling News Digest February 3rd 2019
Bikers pedal to benefit disabled athletes
www.news-journal.com
It was far from freezing for the 31st annual Freeze your Fanny bike ride Saturday. The annual Piney Woods ride from Longview is a fundraiser for East Texas Lightnin’, an independent team of athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Saturday’s riders did either 10-, 40- or metric century (62-mile) routes. Longview temperatures were in the mid-50s.
Williamson Creek Trail across South Austin
By cxagent | austinmountainbiking.com
We have been working on a new trail across south Austin to form a loop around Austin that includes south Austin. Yesterday, we met with a neighborhood that backs up to Williamson Creek. I am extremely disappointed at what many of the speakers said. Without going into great detail, the reputation of MTBr’s was really really bad with this group. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought they were talking about an off shoot of the Banditos motorcycle gang.
I found out that we "destroy trees and creeks and kill off the wildlife". We "ride thru in huge groups with our music playing so the neighbors have to put up with that thump thump thump all night long". And "if they allow one trail, then …
UPCOMING RIDES
Fort Worth Bicycling Association | www.fwbaclub.org
-Bicycles Inc. – Century of the Month
Sat, February 09, 2019 9:00 AM 5739 SW Green Oaks Blvd, Arlington, TX 76017
-Grandview Gallop
Sun, February 10, 2019 9:00 AM 106 S Walnut St, Venus, TX 76084
-Loco NoNemo
Sat, February 16, 2019 9:00 AM Glen Rose High School, Glen Rose, TX
-Ovilla Thrilla
Sun, February 17, 2019 9:00 AM 1301 Day Miar Rd, Mansfield, TX
-Easter Hill Country Tour – 2019
Fri, April 19, 2019 Kerrville, Texas
-Fort Davis 2019
Thu, August 08, 2019 9:00 AM Fort Davis, Texas