The Guaranty Bank Tour de Houston on March 14th had about 4000 cyclists that started downtown Houston that looped out over the Hardy Toll Road which was closed for the ride until 2 pm that morning. I was riding with a friend from work who wound up helping me change two tubes after a biking accident when existing the car park at the Wortheim centre, up from City Hall. Crossing a grating caused the tube to blow out, and we stopped to change the tube before we even got started on the ride. The new tube sufferred a broken valve stem, as we were pumping it up, and we were down to the 2nd and last spare tube between us to get us going. A lot of other cyclists were caught out by this grating - When we found a bike repair stand at the starting line, the guy had changed a lot of tubes that morning. Armed with a new spare, we set off over an hour late and nearly at the back of the pack. A clean clear morning, it soon became fairly hot. The course took us out to the Shell Houston Open golf course, located in a housing estate on the east of the 59 towards the airport. We clocked up 41 miles and maxed out at 34 mph when coming over the flyover bridges....It was a good ride. Best bit were the folks along Elysian Way who came out of their houses early morning to cheer us along!
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