Best Bike Ride

"Crunch!" That's your fat tire introducing itself to the gravel. "On your left!" That's the babe in the crossover overtaking you. "Huff huff huff – swoosh swoosh swoosh!" That's you pedaling your damnedest to catch up, all the while taking in one of the sweetest views of our town from the Trail at Lady Bird Lake, named for the former first lady who first set out to beautify this urban green space. Out west once a year is another sort of bike ride, this one to raise dough and awareness for a great cause. The annual Hill Country Ride for AIDS has been chugging through ribbons of rural roadway for nigh over a decade now, since 1999. And no matter if you come in ninth, 99th, or 999th, everyone's a winner, baby … wheelie.