We drove to Wichita Falls on Friday, August 24th. This year I decided to use my Flipcam to record some of what we saw. There are three videos. The first one shows some of the cars along US287 on the way to Wichita Falls. These come in all shapes and sizes. some carry one bike and others have a whole team on the back.

Once we got to the MPEC area the first job was finding a parking place. We drove through the parking lot around the building but ended up in a grass lot across 5th Street. Walking from there to the MPEC building did not take long as we passed a multitude of vehicles most with a bike or more somewhere on them. Inside the building the people were going in all directions and purposes. My three goals were to pickup my registration packet, walk around the consumer expo to see what was there and find new gloves, and then pass out Texbiker.net business cards. I was successful in all of those. I found some fantastic Pearl Izumi gloves on sale at Sun & Ski Sports. After I cruised the expo I camped out at one of the exit doors to hand out Texbiker.net business cards. I handed out 250 cards, the most I have ever handed out at a ride. This video walks through the registration and expo.

After handing out the Texbiker.net cards we walked over to the criterium course. This next video captures some of the women’s race and the spectators.