This year marks the 25th anniversary for the king of Texas bike tours. I have ridden many of them starting back when the ride started and finished at the stadium on the southwest side of town. Often I rode when the temperature was so hot you could hear the asphalt sticking to your tires. I also remember one year when I thought I was going to freeze when the temperature at the start was about 50 degrees and only reached the upper 80’s by the end of the ride.<\/p>\n
The first year I rode was amazing with about 13,000 riders it took 25 minutes when my position finally started to move after the starting cannon shot.<\/p>\n
One year I rode a white Cannondale R600 with a Skil jersey. My mother still has a picture from that era on the side of her refrigerator.<\/p>\n
Now that the ride starts at downtown and goes clockwise around the course there is a different look from the earlier years. This year marks the 25th anniversary for the king of Texas bike tours. I have ridden many of them starting back when the ride started and finished at the stadium on the southwest side of town. Often I rode when …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Houston Chronicle Cycling Notebook<\/a> by Steve Sievert recaps the ride’s history in today’s issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"