Dallas’ Newest Mountain Bike Trail is Open Near the White Rock Lake Spillway

By Tim Rogers | www.dmagazine.com

Dallas just got a new mountain bike park all thanks to the Loop, DORBA, and the Dallas Parks and Recreation Department. Let’s keep it to ourselves.

A new mountain bike trail opened today in East Dallas. Five miles of dirt track twist and turn through 50 wooded acres of the aptly named Creekside Park, which nestles up to White Rock Creek, about a mile south of the lake’s spillway. Credit goes to no fewer than three organizations: the Loop Dallas, which is building a 50-mile circuit around the city and operates a concrete trail that runs beside the park; the Dallas Park and Recreation Department, which should be obvious; and the Dallas Off-Road Bicycle Association, aka DORBA, the 35-year-old nonprofit whose volunteer army has built and maintains more than 30 trails and parks across North Texas.

This is the first track DORBA has built in Dallas in 15 years. It’s also the first time DORBA has brought in an out-of-state trail design and construction company. Singletrack Trails, based in Colorado, cut …

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Round the Block: The last leg

By Curtis Stoker | www.crazyguyonabike.com

Day 24 – Marfa to Marithon, TX

Monday October 16, 2023, 57 miles (92 km) – Total so far: 1,215 miles (1,955 km) We must be getting to fall even in the south. It was a cold morning this morning. Probably about 44 degrees. Everyone was wearing about everything they had to stay warm. I think over the next few days, we will be dropping in elevation so that should help. At the time of writing this it is quite cold as well. The weather app says 54.

Had a nice day of riding today. Still riding through the Del Norte mountain ranges of Texas. We rode about 27 miles and went through the resort town of Alpine and then had another 30 or so miles after that. They did have a McDonald’s in Alpine, so had to stop and get some lunch there. I probably need to …

Pct. 4: Child on bicycle hit by SUV in northwest Harris County

Author: Jaime E. Galvan | www.khou.com

EMS is now on the scene evaluating the child. The child’s condition was not released.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A child on a bicycle was hit by an SUV in the area of Mandolin Village in northwest Harris County, according to Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman.

Precinct 4 posted about the crash just after 7 a.m. It happened on Grant Road near Canyon Rose Lane just west of Highway 249.

Deputies said the driver of a white Ford SUV hit the child as they were riding their bicycle. EMS is now on the scene evaluating the child. The child’s condition was not released.

No word on whether the driver stayed at the scene.

Video: Ride to End Alz next month in Wimberley

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Enjoy views of the Texas Hill Country while biking for a cause. The Alzheimer’s Association Ride to End Alz is in Wimberley next month and proceeds go towards research for dementia treatment and prevention. FOX 7’s Tierra Neubaum has details.

On Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, METRO Board Members and executive leadership gathered with community stakeholders and elected officials to celebrate the unveiling of the Authority's new Post Oak Road Pedestrian Bridge. Click here to learn more: https://t.co/v7W2eioE5i ^M pic.twitter.com/vo5pKmr3TG

— METRO Houston (@METROHouston) October 17, 2023

Join #DallasParks and Dallas City Council Members and Park Board Representatives, this Saturday (10/21) at 10am, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to welcome Dallas' newest trail, the Trinity Forest Spine Trail. pic.twitter.com/ZN5OQdhDVU

— Dallas Park and Recreation Department (@DallasParkRec) October 18, 2023

Houston Crash: Bicyclist dies 2 days after suffering injuries from DWI driver

By Annita Freeman | www.fox26houston.com

HOUSTON – The Houston Police Department is investigating a Fatal crash on 5900 Scottcrest Drive on Oct. 14.

Around 6:15pm, John Washington, 66, crashed into a 62-year-old man riding a bicycle, according to police. …

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