Good Times!

Woke up this past Saturday morning to an enjoyable event. The Velo Dendro Tour of Shreveport. I was happy to attend and enlisted my dad and friend to ride as well.

Franklin's crank sporting appropriate early morning coffee stains.

My friend brought her father's shaft driven Dekra, which is the first shaft driven bike I've ever seen in person. She let me do some doughnuts on it to try it out before she jumped back on it for the tour.

The tour began at Columbia Cafe on Kings and Creswell. It staggered through a few tree related stops to downtown, then the river front, back into Highland for a SWEPCO demonstration, a look at a massive old live oak and the return to Columbia Cafe.

A church carnival.

A local broadcast journalist (in black)  for channel six rode.

Awesome riding vest!

The Slattery Live Oak (it's famous). 

All in all it was a pretty fun ride once it really got going. Some cool bikes showed up too.

Old school Huffy street cred. Respect!

A vintage univega.

A Peugeot mixte.

A Schwinn tandem.

It was inspiring. About 60 or 70 people showed up which gives me hope that someday a successful Critical Mass might be organized here.