Texas Biking Action October 25th 2020
Column: Cycling interest surges while supplies lag far behind
BY TIM WAITS | www.tdtnews.com
When friends and fellow cyclists Jack Jones, Rod Houston and Frank Jennings realized they were all 66 years old, they saw the Barrow Brewing Volks Ride last weekend as an opportunity to enjoy the Central Texas countryside together and celebrate their age with a circuitous 66-mile biking trek from Salado to Holland. There is nothing especially uncommon about that among dedicated cyclists, who are fit and healthy. For those guys — and most of us — it’s much more doable to cycle your age than it is to shoot your age in golf. “We’re blessed to live where we do,†said Jones, who is the District 146th judge in Bell County. “There’s not a place more appropriate for riding than the venues in this county. You can get out in the country on paved roads that are lightly traveled with different terrains. You have portions of the Hill Country, the Blackland prairie and rolling hills. …