from beaumontenterprise.com
by Gary Laney
There are plenty of “trails” for someone to ride a bicycle in Beaumont.
Unfortunately, said local cycling enthusiast Eric Bender, they call the trails “streets.”
“First of all, there are potholes everywhere and they just aren’t a good place to ride,” said Bender, owner of a bike shop on the Interstate 10/Eastex Freeway split. “Then, you have the traffic.”
Combined, those factors make Beaumont far from an ideal place to ride, although there are dedicated enough local cyclists to give it a try.
Groups of riders meet at various locations four times a week to ride together through some of roads less traveled in the Beaumont area and/or highways that have wide enough shoulders for bike riders to co-exist with traffic.