Road biking Houston

[RiceHorn04]

I'm looking for a nice, relatively low traffic road somewhere in the Houston vicinity (within 45-50 miles or so) where I can hop on my road bike and go to town. Some type of scenery (as much as possible in the Houston area) would be nice, maybe a state park or something.

I'm sick of biking the 1.1 miles around Memorial Park at rush hour. Any suggestions from bikers?

 

[Mack Tripper]

A lot of road bikers ride west of Houston around Fulshear on the weekends, particularly down FM 359 and 723.

 

[GatorHorn]

Two suggestions:

Try FM 149 south from Montgomery to about FM 1488 (about six/seven miles west of The Woodlands and 8 miles north of Tomball). Fairly scenic highway, reasonable traffic. Hills and so forth.

Also try FM 1097, which connects Montgomery (the town) to Willis. A winding, hilly highway that crosses Lake Conroe and is smack dab in the middle of a pine forest. Almost NO traffic and some excellent scenery.

 

[Roger]

if you go out to Hwy 6 or Eldridge Parkway (maybe they are same not 100% sure) in between I-10 and Hwy 59 there is a reservoir with a bike and jogging trail, not sure how long it is. I personally like to ride around Buffalo Bayou and then zig zag through downtown on a saturday morning. The Downtown streets are extremely dead during the mornings on the weekend.

If you follow the bike trail signs on the road you can ride from River Oaks to Bellaire throughout all of the neighborhoods, hell I've been known to get off the specified streets and go into the neighborhoods even more.

There are ~95 miles of hike and bike trails in the City of Houston many of them actually link together via bike lines on the roads or just by crossing roads. You can ride from Braewood at Gessner all the way into the medical center fairly easy along Braesbayou.

You could probably ride along Memorial Parkway from the Beltway all the way to downtown without too much traffic if you did it at the right time.

 

[TenaciousTgarden]

Austin

 

[Ankf00]

move the **** out of Texas lest you end up underneath the vehicle of utexas61. people here dont realize that the road isn't just for cars. then again, people here think if you have a truck you have the right to run over any other car, woe be the pedestrian or cyclist. I always get superpissed when my friends either make jokes about running over or get really pissed off at a cyclist riding next to them... they've got the same right of way if people just had respect for each other it wouldnt' be a ******* problem

 

[horn4life]

I shudder to think of where you go to do hill repeats...

I don't go to Houston mush anymore but I would think West is the way to go.. go West young man!

 

[utexas_61]

Ankf00, I got a bike and ride it to and from work and school and it was a total accident me almost hitting that guy in San Diego. But it really is a funny story if you ever let me tell it to you one day.

I think that it is ******** though to say that people on bicycles have the same rights that motor vehicles do. I have no problem with bicycles on roads, if they at least attempt to move over when a car is coming up behind it. I am from this small town and I remember almost every Sunday going to church being stuck behind a group of bicyclist that wouldnt move over to the shoulder(and yes, there was a shoulder big enough for a bike to ride in). The SOB's would ride side by side.

This is no less ridiculous then a car in the hammer lane going 5 miles an hour under the speed limit, or a car doing 40 mph on the freeway period.

If you are gonna ride on the roads, at least attempt to move over or i am coming at ya

 

[midtown]

I just did my first ride in Texas since moving back and I was petrified knowing that on of the oh so many insecure type rednecks with their trucks were going to run me down. The law states that cyclists DO have as much right to the road as cars. But unfortunately there are always people who feel their above the law and lets face it, even if you are right on you bike it might cost you your life.