The Dallas Senior Cycling Games (ages 50-up), Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth. Saturday: 5K time trial, 10K time trial and 20K road race. Sunday: 40K road race. Registration 8 a.m.; ride 9 a.m. Novice, tandem and recumbent divisions. $42. 469-358-1002.
Texas Flyers Cycling club Featured in The Dallas Morning News
from The Dallas Morning News Online
While many people spend Saturday mornings lounging in bed, a group of men and women known as the Texas Flyers Cycling Club breaks out the spandex for a ride through Denton County.
The Texas Flyers started as a race group that sponsored competitive riders. But a few years ago, the club switched its focus to recreational riding, says club president Renee Massengill, 39.
Austin looks to obtain bike league ‘gold level’
The city of Austin is hoping to boost its bicycle-friendly level to gold status, as designated by the League of American Bicyclists.
Austin, which climbed to a silver level in 2007, is the only Texas city to receive an award by the league. Austin City Council members approved a resolution Thursday to upgrade the city’s bicycle network to attain a gold level.
“We are number one, and we don’t want to be number two,” said Councilwoman Sheryl Cole.
The League of American Bicyclists determines bicycle-friendly levels by the amount of engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation a community puts into planning its bicycle network.
Scottish Rite gives McKinney Police Department new mountain bikes
from the Dallas Morning News online
Scottish Rite officials presented the McKinney Police Department with five $900 police mountain bikes Wednesday as part of a statewide campaign by the fraternal organization.
“Law enforcement has never been just a job for the men in blue,� said M. Douglas Adkins, sovereign grand inspector general for Texas. “It is a citizen and a community effort.�