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Rider Profile: Bear Claw

Posted on June 13, 2016 at 2:59 pm by / 0
If you’ve seen the Red Hook around Dallas, you’ve seen Bear Claw. We first met Bear Claw when he saw the Tribe Bicycles Red Hook on Instagram feed and we worked together customizing the bike. Over the past few months, we’ve spent a lot of time together on and off the bike. He inspires us to ride our bikes just for fun and to do it in style.  He also gives the best bear hugs.  Ring your bell and tell him Hi next time you see him riding the Red Hook, Brenda Lou, or his Orbea on the streets of Dallas.
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Q. How long have you been riding bikes and what was your first bike?
A. I’ve riding bikes on a regular basis for about 4 years now. My first bike was a Specialized Hard Rock mountain bike.
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Q. Where is your favorite place to ride in Dallas?
A. Currently my favorite place to ride is a White Rock Lake. It’s actually my favorite place to be in all of Dallas. It’s so peaceful, beautiful and full of good energy there.
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Q. We see you riding every weekend and riding different bikes. What inspires you to keep pedaling?
A. I mainly got into riding bikes for health reasons. My doctor mentioned that I might want to lose weight, change my diet and be more active. I had breathing problems and chronic high blood pressure. Now, I mainly ride because of the freedom I feel when I’m on two wheels. It’s my therapy! There’s no better feeling when it’s just me, my bike, and the road.
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Q. We’ve seen a nice red JBL speaker on the Red Hook. Speakers are a great alternative to headphones and a lot safer. What kind of music motivates you on a ride?
A. I have different music for different bikes just like I have different music preferences for different moods. If I’m on my Orbea road bike and I want to ride a couple laps around White Rock Lake I tend to listen to anything from hard rock to metal, it really motivates me. When I’m cruising or mashing the city streets on either of my single gear Tribe Bicycles I tend to be more mellow by listening to alt-rock, old school hip hop and electronic music.
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Q. Here’s a serious question. Tell us what you think about the future of bicycle infrastructure in Dallas and how can we get more people riding bikes on the streets?
A. When I first started riding bikes I did it for my own personal reasons. I loved riding on my own. I wasn’t into group rides or really riding with someone else. As I literally grew into riding, experiencing all the life changing benefits and hearing those around me say they saw a change in me not only physically but in spirit and character, I felt like I needed to share my experiences and want others to feel what I feel from riding bikes. Public, planned and open social rides are wonderful way of getting fellow bike riders together. I’ve now become more social in the biking community because I believe the more riders we have the more support we have on making Dallas a better and safer bike friendly city. We have a long way to go but I have faith in our biking community that we will get bigger and stronger. It only takes one bike ride at a time.
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Rider Profile: Safety Patrol Officer Corbin Phillips

Posted on March 22, 2016 at 8:36 am by / 1 Comment
With Local Hub being located in Deep Ellum, Downtown is our gateway to Oak Cliff, Design District, Uptown and The Cedars. Downtown Dallas, Inc. had made great strides in building a vibrant community of residents and businesses in the downtown corridor.  That includes hiring a team of safety patrol officers on bikes who make sure people are safe, give directions to the best places to eat and drink in downtown, escort office workers to their cars who may be working late, and occasionally race another cyclist to the next red light. These are the good guys who make sure Downtown is a nice place to live and visit.  Our next rider profile is safety patrol officer Corbin Phillips. DSP Phillips was kind enough to let us hang out with him during one of his shifts and answer a few questions.  Check out his profile and give him a thumbs up next time you roll through downtown.

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Dallas Brewery Tour by Bicycle

Posted on March 7, 2016 at 8:00 am by / 4 Comments

The first brewery in Dallas was established in 2011 when Deep Ellum Brewing Company opened it’s doors by not playing by the rules. Local zoning laws classified breweries in the same category as chemical, plastics, paint, and insecticide manufacturing. Dallas city code categorized brew masters as the toxic bad boys trying to cause trouble in Dallas. That soon changed when a few other craft breweries entered the scene and made the city of Dallas realize breweries were essential to the revitalization of neighborhoods and made the city money. Thank goodness it did because there are some fine brews coming out of Dallas and we would really miss them.   Read More

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Rider Profile: Shawn Summey

Posted on February 6, 2016 at 8:13 pm by / 0

Heard about those cool bicycle drag races on the Continental Bridge? Or, how about the Lions and Lambs Alley Cat race that benefitted Crossroads Community Services?  You can thank Shawn Summey for bringing organized bicycle street racing to Dallas. He started Just Ride Dallas in 2014 and keeps pumping out rides that keep the racing scene in Dallas interesting.  His not to be missed next event is the Drag Races on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge during All Out Trinity Weekend March 4th-5th.  It’s a chance to race on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and prove yourself against some of the best sprinters in Texas.  Get your legs warmed up and your carb loading on during the pre-race social ride and happy hour at Local Hub on March 4th from 7 pm-10pm. Durty Laundry will be spinning fresh beats, PBR and Cathead Vodka will be providing hydration. Read More

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Rider Profile, Couples Edition: Melanie and Sean Clancy

Posted on December 8, 2015 at 6:16 pm by / 0

Melanie and Sean Clancy epitomize the active lifestyle in downtown Dallas. Melanie is the editor of the fitness website Active.com and an avid runner, cyclist, and triathlete in her free time. Sean is the Vice President of the Dallas Bike Coalition, certified running coach, spinning instructor and bicycle event planning specialist. He also has great hair.  They moved to Dallas a few years ago and immediately immersed themselves in the urban bike culture by getting involved with the Deep Ellum Community Association then eventually taking over Bike Friendly Deep Ellum and making it the group it is today.  Bike Friendly Deep Ellum has over 1,500 likes on their Facebook page and around 40 people consistantly showing up for their group rides every Thursday while the sun is still out after 5 pm.  Their passion for living healthy runs deep and is contagious.  If you don’t already have bike dates and volunteer in your community, you will after reading their profile.

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