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Bike Park is coming to Aggieland!

A mapview showing the Southeast Park on Rock Prairie Road
Satellite view of Southeast Park on Rock Prairie road East. (Nov. 2023)

How it began

  • August 24, 2023: College Station City Council discontinues Texas Independence Ballpark project – The Eagle (PDF)
    • Due to soil deficiencies discovered at the site, constructing large paved surfaces, such as parking lots, is not practically or financially feasible.
  • October 25, 2023: First presentation to the City Council. Kim spoke for the middle- and high school MTB team, and having safe spaces to allow more kids on bikes. Her impassioned speech, an act impossible to follow, starts at 16:25 of this video recording. (https://collegestationtx.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3580/media)
Map view of Southeast park and Lick Creek Trail with green scribble lines for possible network of trails
Kim’s history making doodle of trails all across Southeast park and Lick Creek Trail (Oct. 2023)

Where things are now

  • October 30, 2023: Capital Projects held an open house public meeting. Among many great ideas presented, bike park/trails option received a strong support.
  • November 9, 2023: City Council meeting > Capital Projects Update. Site stabilization effort was deemed as an opportunity to quickly put together a prototype pump track/skills park. (Skip to 1:30:30: https://collegestationtx.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3601/media)
  • November 20, 2023: (TBD) a follow-up presentation to the city council is planned, to emphasize that this bike park plan will be for All Ages & Abilities, instead of a niche sport need.
  • December 11, 2023: Capital Projects will update the council with a much broader plan.

Where we could go

Railyard Bike Park in Rogers, AR (Image credit: Arkansas.com)
  • Skills park for all levels: a bike playground for toddlers on balance bikes, and a pump track for intermediate to advanced level riders
  • Accessible by bike: Connect to Lick Creek Hike & Bike trail, as well as multi-use path being built along Rock Prarie Road
  • Integrate with other uses: a dog park, frisbee golf, running trails, and a greater greenspace. Perhaps even a coffee shop in the woods!
Airship Coffee at Coler MTB Preserve is located in the middle of a forest, within a half mile walk/bike from nearest parking lot. (Image credit: visitbentonville.com)

How You can help

Thanks and more soon!

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Wednesday Intermediate Ride

Intermediate-pace, 34-mile ride for those looking to improve speed and endurance.  Some people will get dropped by the group but we have regroup points throughout the ride, so nobody will be left riding alone. Think of this as a ride for people that would someday like to do the Saturday flag pole ride or Tuesday TNP but are not quite there yet.

 

Do bring water, bicycle food, flat change equipment, a helmet, and lights (it may get dark before we get back to campus)

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Wednesday Intermediate Ride

Intermediate-pace, 35-mile ride for those looking to improve speed and endurance. Mostly ridden at a steady pace with several hard but relatively short sections that might drop some riders. However, these are always followed by regroups; nobody will be left riding alone. Start point is the flagpole on military walk on the Texas A&M campus.

 

What to bring

Water, Helmet is required, kit to fix a flat (tube, CO2, pump, patch), and you might consider to bring head/taillight in case you need to ride home from campus, also in case we experience some delays due to flats/mech issues, etc…

Sprints

The faster riders will push themselves in some sections and in the sprints. If you fall behind we WILL regroup for you.

View a fancy video of the ride route.

 

https://youtu.be/4FM5hJ5ZmIQ?t=8s