Hill Country Randonneurs is an organization to promote randonneuring throughout central Texas.   Come join us for some great scenery, enjoyable company, and pleasurable rides.

This year we will have a populaire in March, so if you are a newbie who is thinking about trying randonneuring, this is the perfect ride for you. It is a shorter distance (only 62 miles) and will give you an opportunity to talk to some seasoned randonneurs and find out more about the sport. …

Biking woman thwarts child kidnap attempt
by bikedenton

Saturday’s DRC police blotter reports that a biking woman riding thwarted a man’s attempt to kidnap a child on Cooper Creek Rd. I don’t know the details, but that is a popular route to ride up towards Lake Ray Roberts, the Greenbelt, and the Clear Creek Nature Preserve.

2700 block of Cooper Creek Road — A woman riding her bike Friday helped a teenage girl in…

Is Fort Worth’s plan to install showers for city workers all wet?
By Dave Lieber            Fort Worth Star-Telegram
A Fort Worth City Hall employee tipped The Watchdog that the city is spending almost $50,000 to build five showers so city workers can clean up after biking to work or exercising at lunchtime.

“I have nothing against riding a bike to work,” the tipster wrote. “What I do take issue with is the city, in such dire straits, on a dead run to spend money to build showers so that folks can ride bicycles to work at City Hall. …