Xina Jones is a quiet legend. She has been a bicycle messenger in Dallas since 1999, lives car-free, and she currently helps lead the weekly Time In The Saddle rides from Whole Foods in Lakewood on Tuesdays.
Read the full story »Bike Denton To Host World’s First Denim Group Ride Jan 23rd
Bike Denton has announced they’re having the world’s first Denim Ride on Saturday, January 23rd. They are meeting at 1:30 at the corner of Fry and Hickory in, well, Denton. Denton is known for it’s …
Cycle Track Coming to Oak Cliff
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff has been the leading voice for infrastructure change in Dallas for some time now. From wooing city leaders to hosting major group rides, no one has done more to vitalize the …
Dunelt Light Roadster and the Summer of 1965
1965 was a year of ambitious social reform in the United States and yet many events that year would also foreshadow a period of impending social tension and uncertainty. During his State of the Union …
Promise of Peace Community Garden – Build Day Feb 6th
The folks from Promise of Peace Community Garden are hosting a “Build Day” on Saturday, February 6th. It will be at their garden on 7446 East Grand.
They’re going to construct container kits and also the …
1979 Schwinn Collegiate 3
I picked this bike up in early spring 2009 from a guy up in Denton for $40.00. In fact, I drove to Denton in what turned out to be an F1 tornado storm system to get this …
The Dallas Bike Trail Network
* 2011 update – The 2011 Dallas Bike Plan has been adopted. Keep an eye on Biking in Dallas for additional updates.
In only a decade, Dallas County and a number of cities within the county …
A “Cool ” Vintage Bike That Actually Really Sucked Bad: Sears Free Spirit
In July of 2008, after about six months of being back in the bicycle game, I found this bike on my local Craigslist:
Sixty bucks! What a deal, I thought. A cool vintage, single speed cruiser …
Bicycles West of the Pecos
In this early photo of bicycling in Texas, a white-bearded Judge Roy Bean stands outside of his famed Jersey Lilly Saloon in Langtry, TX, flanked by two new-fangled bicycles. This image was recorded sometime prior to …
Seen At The Bike Friendly Oak Cliff Santa Ride
Hubbard has been telling me about some of the newly finished sections of the Santa Fe Trail for a while now so it made sense for us to meet at his office so we could check it out …
Dallas Burlesque and a French Bicycle
So Mike and I are cruising along Main street as we head towards the Santa Fe Trail when we notice these three lovely show girls strolling down the sidewalk. Not the sort of thing you …
Bikes and Reviews »
Velo Orange Porteur Double Kickstand
For years I either suffered through not having a kickstand at all or I relied one that was never very reliable. The typical kickstand set-up shifts the balancing weight of the bike away from the …
Biking In Dallas »
Biking with Xina Jones
Xina Jones is a quiet legend. She has been a bicycle messenger in Dallas since 1999, lives car-free, and she currently helps lead the weekly Time In The Saddle rides from Whole Foods in Lakewood on Tuesdays.
Lifestyle »
Lee M. Kleinman for City Council District 11
Due to redistricting I now live in District 11 which has been represented by Linda Koop for several years now. Koop is well known to cycling advocates for her work in transportation and support for …
Rides and Events »
Build a Better Jason Fundraiser, May 25th 2013
From the Bike Friendly Oak Cliff announcement:
Our “Don Corleone” of the bicycle friendly world, Jason Roberts, needs our help! After discovering he had testicular cancer and battling to beat the tar out of it, he’s …
Politics »
Fresh Updates on the Dallas Bike Plan
Dallas bike politics came under the microscope at two recent events. Guest contributor Tamar Wilner provides a first-hand account.
City Council Bike Plan Update
On April 3, the City Council gathered to hear a long-delayed update on …
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