Approximately 40 bicyclists participated in the annual Ride of Silence in Lubbock on Wednesday, May 16. Promptly at 7:00 p.m. the group, many wearing black armbands in memory of those killed by motorists and others wearing red armbands if they themselves had been injured by a motorist, rode from the Brownfield Highway north on Milwaukee Avenue to Fourth Street and back.
A constant speed of approximately 12 miles per hour was maintained, and no one spoke during the 8-mile ride as a show of respect for those who had died. Several participants also wore a photo on the back of their jersies in honor and memory of their friend Brett Walrath who was struck from behind and killed by a drunk driver as he rode home from work in 2004. All went smoothly, as Durwood Mayfield, Texas Bicycle Coalition’s Local Outreach Manager, planned the event and decided on a safe route that would give good exposure to the residents of Lubbock.
On hand to give added coverage was the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, thanks to efforts of Captain Lance Slack an avid cyclists and member of the Lubbock Police Department. Several local news stations also filmed the event for broadcast that night and the following day. This was Lubbock’s second Ride of Silence and certainly will not be the last.
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Trail Docs Go to New Zealand—Wanaka Trails Rock!
By Ryan Spates and Susan Stormer, BikeTexas Trail Doctors
We took a two-week vacation down under to visit New Zealand during the beginning of April. As the country is located in the Southern hemisphere, everything is reversed including the seasons (April is going into fall there) and the constellations (Orion was upside down, very strange.)
Stranger still was driving on the left side of the road, due to the fact that New Zealand is a British Commonwealth. When you throw in driving a stick shift car using your left hand because the steering wheel is on the right, we definitely knew we were far from home!
But one thing we found that made us feel right at home was a sweet bicycle trail system that put a big smile on our faces.
On the weekend of October 21-23, thousands of cyclists from around the world traveled to Austin for the annual Ride for the Roses. Texas Bicycle Coalition is proud to have been a part of the weekend’s events.
Lance Armstrong celebrated his final Tour de France victory with a free Lance Thanks Austin concert at Austin's Auditorium Shores on Sunday, October 2, featuring Sheryl Crow.
Seven-time Tour de France champion and Austin resident Lance Armstrong thanked his hometown with a free musical performance by multi-Grammy winning artist Sheryl Crow. Armstrong also welcomed riders from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope, a cross-country bicycle ride that Armstrong participates in to raise awareness for clinical trials.
Woke up wondering if I had the energy to haul my suitcases downstairs again, but first…BREAKFAST. A treat here in the Europe. We walk into the traditional buffet of meats, cheeses, croissont rolls, yogurts, cereals, eggs, potato pies, every kind of fresh fruit and crusty bread. The bread is awesome, along with some Brie cheese, strawberry jam..yum.
Hot brown stuff they call coffee, and hot tea..much more to my liking. Peach juice is often served for breakfast too, but so is apple and orange juice. This morning they had cheesecake and apple pie!
Thursday, we think? Anyhow, who really cares as the days just start becoming a blur on this trip. We had sat up late last night and Jim had been trying to fight a sinus infection, well…it got worse as the night wore on and we decided to not ride today but actually sleep in. Good idea, we got some rest finally.
The hotel is gorgeous, built in 1928 near the top of the mountain, it is decorated with grand antiques and has many rooms full of big windows. We went down for breakfast and met up with a few others that seemed to want the day off as well.
The coffee was hot, the bread was just baked, and we were ready to kick back.
