I have been traveling around town looking for the best places to ride my trike. I have not explored even a third of them yet. There are many nicely paved trails in Houston as well as wide dirt trails that work well for a trike. That said the hard part is not finding a trail, its finding parking for your car! Oh, I've found a few places close to a number of trails, but not many look like my car would be safe even for an hour unattended, especially if the "locals" watched me cycling away. Not to mention parking tickets and getting towed.
Why not just ride out of your garage and go wherever you want? Well I could cross the highway I suppose. I might live. And I could ride on the shoulder of a few of the roads with 50mph traffic and hope all the cars stay in their lanes. Then there are the roads with no shoulders and no sidewalks at all. I can get about 3 miles of safe low traffic roads near my home, but even repeating that a second time doesn't really last long enough, and going in circles bores the hell out of me. So I have to drive to some place to ride most of the time.
Putting my trike in my CRV isn’t too hard, the back seat folds down and I roll it in easily. The back wheel of my Cruiser comes just barely between the front seats. It’s actually better than using a bumper rack I think. When I carry my wife’s and mine I put mine on the roof and tie it on with rope and put hers in the back. Hers is much heavier and would be harder to do the overhead press necessary.
So for the time being I have found five different places that have over 10 miles of trail with a good parking spot close to the trails I like. I have three more to try and I will keep searching the others for good parking.
Anybody in the Houston area have suggestions for locations?
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