Film Festival Discounts for Cyclists!
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff
The Oak Cliff Film Festival organizers have a special place in their hearts for cyclists. They’ve put together quite a line-up June 14-17th and they’re offering cyclist discounts. For those of you who plan to make it a weekend-long biking affair, you’re entitled to half-price festival badges. You can park…

Smurfboy Summer Endurance Series
from North Texas Mountain Bike Patrol
The 2012 Smurfboy Summer Endurance Series
This will be a series of four 4 Hour races. Each Race will be from 6pm-10pm.
Rowlett Creek           June 16, 2012
Boulder Park             June 30, 2012
River Legacy              July 14, 2012
North Shore              July 28, 2012
Price is as follows:
$40 per race, $120 if you preregister for all four races up front

Real Bike to Workers
by Steve A        Dallas Point-to-Point

I like the Fort Worth “Bike to Work” event. It is very easy for me to get there without even much of a detour from my usual commute. I simply remember to go an extra half block and hop on the TRE commuter train at Hurst Station. Two stops later I’m there. If it weren’t “part of the package,” it’d be almost as easy to drop the bike off at work and go to the event on foot. Back in the days of my v2 commute, it would have involved several added hours to do it via bicycle. However, the event isn’t quite perfect. It is scheduled according to what is sometimes called “banker’s hours.” As a result, I mostly get to watch…

Bike Week ABC FAIL
by Steve A        Dallas Point-to-Point

Steve A, serial offender against the “ABC Quick Check.” It isn’t that I don’t make the check, but the intention of doing so isn’t meant to help an ABC scofflaw assess how much longer he can go on anymore than checking the oil on a car is intended to assess how many more miles can be driven before the motor freezes up. I’m bad, I admit it. You can see past episodes here. Among other posts.

This one is different. You see, this is Bike Week and it gives my normally boring commute a little extra spice. On Monday, somehow my front tire got damaged. I noticed it on the way home, but tire pressure was reasonable. On Tuesday morning, my front tire was way too soft. Contemplating things, just as motorists…

Cotton Belt Trail links neighboring cities
by Diane S. W. Lee            impactnews.com
Trails to provide safe route for pedestrians, bicyclists in DFW area

More than a dozen bicyclists, pedestrians and Colleyville city officials gathered in April on the freshly paved Cotton Belt Trail near the city’s southwest border at L.D. Lockett Road to celebrate the completion of a new 2.8-mile portion of trail connecting Hurst to Colleyville.

Colleyville now has more than 33 miles of public and private trails, and the city is looking to add three miles more over the next five years as part of its master…

Ride of Silence honors local, worldwide cyclists
by Brian Brode            www.examiner.com
PLANO, Texas – Although they did not say a word, they refused to be silent. That was the spirit of the 50 cyclists who rode yesterday’s Ride of Silence.

The Ride of Silence is an international group ride held on the third Wednesday in May, paying tribute to cyclists injured and killed by an automobile while riding their bike on public roadways. First held in Dallas in 2003, the event is growing…

Ride of Silence 2012 – Fort Worth – Pre Ride Speech
by WheelBrothers

Scott Strom and Chris Baab were kind enough to say couple words before the 2012 Ride of Silence Fort Worth edition.