Texas Biking June 5th 2020
NAHBS Cancels 2020 Show, Will be Back 2021
BY MATT MILLER | www.singletracks.com
The North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) has cancelled its 2020 event and will not reschedule the event for this year.
Instead, they are considering the next location for the 2021 show. This year’s event would have taken place in Dallas.
NAHBS was first scheduled for March 15-17 and then changed to August 21-23, because of the coronavirus outbreak. Don Walker, the NAHBS founder and president says he felt comfortable about the change, but things of course kept changing. …
Beer, bicycles rare bright spots in Waco economy ravaged by COVID-19 in April
By MIKE COPELAND | www.wacotrib.com
Waco Bicycle Club members ride in a bike lane in this file photo from last year. While the Waco economy has been ravaged by COVID-19, like the state and the nation, bicycle sales have picked up dramatically and beer sales have held steady in recent months.
Waco’s economy cratered in April, but beer and bicycles sold like hotcakes.
COVID-19 did a number on jobs, hotel stays, retail sales and vehicle purchases, causing the Greater Waco Economic Index to drop 2.8 points in raw scoring, the largest monthly decline since Amarillo-based economist Karr Ingham began tracking local trends using data dating to 2000. …
By order of the city, BCycle to keep downtown Houston kiosks offline until June 10
Dug Begley | www.houstonchronicle.com
Seventeen BCycle kiosks in the downtown Houston area ordered shut by Houston police and emergency management authorities will remain closed until June 10, operators of the bike rental system said Friday.
“As a nonprofit that seeks to serve as many riders as possible, we disagree with this order and apologize to those who wish to use BCycle during the protests, as well as for the lack of bike share access throughout downtown,†officials said in a release.
The 15 stations in the central business district and two in Eado were closed Monday at …