Bike ride in Fort Worth

On March 6, we rented BCycle bikes from a bike stand near the hotel, and went for a ride.  It took us a while to download the app onto our phones, and figure out how to use it, but once we did the rest was relatively smooth sailing.  The bikes were a little clunky and unbalanced, but I guess they are built to be tank-like due to being minimally-supervised rentals.

This was a lot of fun, especially considering the summer weather, and the fact that it was still winter back home in Canada made it a special treat.

There are lots of trails in Fort Worth.  We got on the path around where W 10th St. meets Forest Park Blvd., and then downtown we crossed over to take the trail that follows the West Fork of the Trinity River, crossing the river again at the dam to stay on the south side of the river curve, and we stayed on it until a little ways past highway 35W before we had to turn around as Ed needed to get back for a meeting.

These next photos are near downtown.  The weather was perfect:

This bridge is the main one into downtown from the north, N Main St.:

Downtown from the path:

This is me just past the 35W interstate freeway.  This was around where we turned around:

This is the dam that we crossed.  That is me on it, Ed hung back to get the photo.  It was a little scary crossing it, it has no railings, and bike traffic in both directions, with a bit of wind too:

That concludes our short little trip to Fort Worth.  We had a great time, and it was our last trip before the pandemic shut-down, so we are really glad we went.