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Do they still do the Bike the Bricks in McKinney? I lived on the route and we always had a huge party watching them.

This was probably 10 years ago though.

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They do not. City shut it down after businesses complained...

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Do you guys ride in any of the DFW area events? Like the Tour De Paris or the hotter'n hell 100? Stuff like that?

I think there may be another trek 100 in Fort Worth this year.

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TurboVelo's crits are pretty awesome.

I do more of the MTB events in and around. Going to Bentonville for the stage race next weekend. Will attempt to hit some of the Summer Series, although it's been moved to Big Cedar for this year. I may do Judgement day, where you ride 10 trails in a day.

I think I may race Tmbra endurance series this fall.

We have a a regular group of guys that meet in Dallas, rides to Whiterock, downtown to levies, trinity bottoms, etc on gravel bikes. Usually about 70 miles most Saturday mornings. We usually stop for coffee in Deep Ellum. It a lot of fun. Let me know if anyone is interested.

I want to go to here. I need to compile dream gravel trips to start knocking out - this has made it. Castell doesn't exactly compete with this

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Do you guys ride in any of the DFW area events? Like the Tour De Paris or the hotter'n hell 100? Stuff like that?

I think there may be another trek 100 in Fort Worth this year.

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TurboVelo's crits are pretty awesome.

I do more of the MTB events in and around. Going to Bentonville for the stage race next weekend. Will attempt to hit some of the Summer Series, although it's been moved to Big Cedar for this year. I may do Judgement day, where you ride 10 trails in a day.

I think I may race Tmbra endurance series this fall.

We have a a regular group of guys that meet in Dallas, rides to Whiterock, downtown to levies, trinity bottoms, etc on gravel bikes. Usually about 70 miles most Saturday mornings. We usually stop for coffee in Deep Ellum. It a lot of fun. Let me know if anyone is interested.

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Our new house is right on Loop 14 of RCP if you ever head over here.

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Need to compile dream gravel trips to start knocking out - this has made it.

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My recommendations on a lazy Friday morning at work:

Completed:

• First Sunday of every August Hurricane Ridge in Olympic is bike only. This includes Obstruction Point road (16 miles out-and-back of the best gravel in WA). All to yourself. No cars. (Gravel)
• North Cascades/Chelan for the Larches: Slate Peak, Hart's Pass, Angels Staircase, Cutthroat Pass (Gravel or MTB)
• Whiskey Tango: Eastern Sierra + Whitney Portal (Gravel)
• Oakridge - ATCA / McKenzie Trail, OR (MTB)
• Mt. Lemon out of Tuscon (Road)
• Rainier's 4 passes (Road)

Upcoming this year:

• Rebecca's Private Idaho (https://www.rebeccasprivateidaho.com/)
• High Cascades 100 (https://www.mudslingerevents.com/high-cascades-100)
• Mammoth Tuff (https://www.tuff.ventures/mtuff)

Future Bucket List:

• Moab/Whole Enchilada during the aspens color change (MTB)
• Telli/Magic Meadows during the aspen color change (MTB)
• Breck Epic Race (MTB)

Notable: West passes can be really neat during bike only windows every spring before opening to cars.

• Tioga in Yosemite (personal bucket list), almost caught this year - was open on the way to WTF; closed due to storm on the way home.
• SR20 in North Cascade (personal bucket list)
• All of Rainier / But especially Sunrise from Crystal's lot. Catch it when the gate's locked, plowed lane and you can have the visitor center to yourself. (annual pilgrimage)
• Going to the Sun Rd. in Glacier (never done; by far the most famous)
• McKenzie/Cascade Lakes in Bend. (annual pilgrimage; daughter does them with me now!)

Obstruction Pt in Olympic:


Larches / Slate / Hart's Pass in N. Cascade:


Rainier:

I rode Tioga Pass back in '04, starting in Mammoth. It's a heck of a climb.

Its all road, but if you ever get a chance to go north of the border, the most beautiful ride I've ever done is from Whistler to Lillooet via Duffy Lake Road.

Thanks for all the responses. I'm still a beginner rider so I was just trying to understand if these are normally attended events. The furthest I have gone is 50 miles. I made a goal to do 100 this year. I took a month off while in Europe and came back and did 40 with little training, so I think it's very doable.

Inside I can do average 20mph for about an hour, but outside over an hour I'm closer to 16mph. Seems like that is mostly due to traffic because when I have open road for 3-5 miles my average speed is closer to 18-19.

That's why I think it would be cool to do an event where it's closed road and I can just focus on pedaling.

Cool pics Ranger.