Texas Bicycling Adventures – October 29, 2023
Galena Park ghost stories and smokestacks on display for Halloween air quality tour
Rebekah F. Ward | www.houstonchronicle.com
Five-year-old Ivan Mendoza wore a billowing Batman cape and a toothy smile Saturday morning as his Hulk-clad dad pedaled the pair around Galena Park and Jacinto City, two east side suburbs near Houston’s ship channel.
The Mendozas were among dozens of people who joined or cheered on a 7-mile, Halloween-themed bike ride led by Juan Flores, 45, a Galena Park resident working for the pollution awareness nonprofit Air Alliance Houston.
Flores took the group through his stomping ground, pausing to share pollution anecdotes and the occasional ghost story: apparitions wearing old-timey …
$345M approved for Texas pedestrian, bicycle projects | TxDOT said this investment was more than six times as much funding compared to the last Transportation Alternatives call for projects in 2021.
— KXAN News (@KXAN_News) October 29, 2023
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One week away! Pump up those tires and get ready for a FREE kids bike rodeo on Sunday, Nov. 5, 12 PM – 5 PM at Velo Republic's Super Duper Swap Meet at the North Texas Fairgrounds. We'll have various sizes of balance bikes (no pedals) to borrow.
— Bike Denton (@bikedenton) October 29, 2023
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Blog: Cross country – Southern Tier
By sedona_rocks | www.crazyguyonabike.com
Bob Hake’s journey across the USA from September 2023 to November 2023
#1: Day 35: 10/28/23 Somerville to New Waverly,TX By sedona_rocks on Sun 29 Oct 2023 07:32 (US/Pacific) Reply Rating: (0) Well my bike worked like a champ today. I started out a little uncertain but it performed well in a 73 mile test. Today was a hot, muggy day but there was no rain. Correction, it was raining when we woke up and during breakfast but stopped before we got on our bikes. We rode past many, many cow pastures today. I stopped in a quaint gas station/grocery and the owner asked me to sign a registry he keeps of all the thru-bikers. I scanned over 3,4 pages of what others had written and …
RIDE SCHEDULE
Georgetown Cyclopaths | www.cyclopathsoftexas.com
November 2023 Self Guided No Drop Tempo Start Time: 9:05am 9:05am 9:00am Day Date Meet at Miles Map Miles Map Miles Map
Saturday 11/04/2023 Baptist Church in Andice 32 miles A31s 45 miles A44.1 59 miles A62
Saturday 11/11/2023 Baptist Church in Andice 35 miles A34s 49 miles A23 62 miles A64
Saturday 11/18/2023 Baptist Church in Andice Go Long miles A35r 44 miles A41 63 miles A63r
Saturday 11/25/2023 Barking Armadillo 38 miles BAB33 46 miles BAB45 61 miles B62.15
Round the Block: The last leg
By Curtis Stoker | www.crazyguyonabike.com
Day 37 – New Waverly to Shepherd, TX
Sunday October 29, 2023, 52 miles (84 km) – Total so far: 2,011 miles (3,236 km) Again, a little bit of a warm night. I shouldn’t be complaining about that because tomorrow the high is going to be 49 degrees and a 70% chance of rain again. In fact, at the place we are staying tonight it is getting cold quick.
Great ride today. We rode along tree lined roads most of the day. Once in a while you would see some cow pasture but we are in a lot of trees. There was a bit of climbing and ups and downs but things definitely are changing. We are only one or two hundred feet above sea level and things are leveling out.
My odometer went over 2,000 miles today. I can’t believe we have traveled that distance. In fact, the ride will end …
Horse Potatoes Walker County, Texas
Richard Ryder | strava.com
I bid farewell to Houston with a double century weekend The Woodlands, Texas
Chris Hall | strava.com
