BikeDFW

14TH ANNUAL PINK PEDAL - BREAST CANCER AWARENESS RIDE

📅 SATURDAY • OCTOBER 3, 2026
📍 TREK BICYCLE ARLINGTON SOUTH
💗 12-MILE PINK PEDAL COMMUNITY RIDE

A casual, supportive ride welcoming cyclists of all levels --- plus, the traditional Century of the Month Routes for those looking for more miles.

14 YEARS • ONE MISSION • MILES OF SUPPORT
• Ride for AWARENESS.
• Ride in SUPPORT.
• Ride for THOSE WE LOVE.

Wear Pink • Bring Your Bike • Join the Community

💙🚲 North Texas Giving Day: Mobility Edition Spotlight

We're wrapping up today's featured organizations with some friends we're especially excited to be working with very soon: Friends of Bachman Lake.

Bachman Lake is more than a beautiful Dallas park. Its trail is a place where people walk, run, bike, exercise, spend time with family, connect with neighbors — and move through their community.

And Friends of Bachman Lake is working to make that experience even better.

This North Texas Giving Day, their work includes restoring the Bachman Greenbelt, improving safety and trail connectivity, restoring native habitat, and adding wayfinding along the Bachman Lake Trail.

We love this because it illustrates something that has come up again and again throughout our Mobility Edition today:

The details matter.

A trail matters.

Whether that trail connects matters.

Whether people can safely navigate it matters.

Whether the space around it is cared for matters.

And the community organizations willing to keep showing up and advocating for those places really matter.

We're particularly happy to spotlight Friends of Bachman Lake because this isn't just an organization we're cheering for from afar. BikeDFW will be joining them at Bachman Lake on October 24 for a Bike Check on the Trail, helping people get their bikes checked while spending some time with the community that uses this wonderful space. 🚲🔧

That's the kind of partnership we love.

Throughout North Texas Giving Day we've shared organizations doing very different work — bicycle access, community health, local advocacy, adaptive cycling, regional trail connections, mountain-bike stewardship and neighborhood trails.

None of us does all of it.

But together? We're building a North Texas where more people have more ways — and better places — to bike, walk, roll, move, explore and connect.

And that's a pretty wonderful note to end our featured spotlights on. 💙

If you love Bachman Lake or believe in the importance of cared-for, connected community trails, go show Friends of Bachman Lake some love this North Texas Giving Day.

💙🚲 North Texas Giving Day: Mobility Edition Spotlight

If you've ever ridden a mountain bike trail in North Texas and thought, “Damn, this is fun,” there's a pretty good chance you have volunteers to thank for it.

Our friends at DORBA - Dallas Off-Road Bicycle Association have been building, maintaining and advocating for North Texas trails for decades.

And the scale of that work is pretty remarkable:

🚵 28 trails maintained
🌳 275 miles of singletrack
🙌 315+ volunteers in 2025
⛏️ 14,000+ volunteer trail-work hours in 2025

Those numbers represent an enormous amount of work happening behind the scenes — building trails, clearing overgrowth, repairing erosion, maintaining relationships with land managers and making sure there are places throughout our region where people can get off the pavement and onto the dirt.

And here's something we especially appreciate about DORBA: they've built an entire community around stewardship.

People don't just show up to ride the trails. They show up with tools and gloves and spend their weekends taking care of them.

DORBA is also a great reminder of why we wanted this North Texas Giving Day series to look at the whole bicycling ecosystem. We need organizations that know their communities, know their specialties, and do those things extraordinarily well — and then we need all of us working together.

DORBA fills an incredibly important piece of that ecosystem, and we're awfully glad they're here. 💙

If you've ever enjoyed one of these trails — or simply believe North Texas needs more great places for people to ride and explore — today is a pretty wonderful day to give something back to the people who help make them possible. North Texas Giving Day

💙🚲 North Texas Giving Day: Mobility Edition Spotlight

Imagine being able to leave your neighborhood on a bicycle or on foot and travel from city to city on a connected network of trails — with fewer encounters with fast-moving traffic and far fewer places where the trail simply…ends.

That's the vision our friends at Loop15Texas are working toward.

Loop 15 Texas is a North Texas nonprofit with an ambitious goal: connect 15 cities across three counties through paved, shared-use trails.

And we LOVE the scale of that thinking.

Because one great trail is wonderful. But when trails connect to one another, they become something more. They become a network — one that can connect people to neighboring communities, jobs, destinations, recreation and each other.
This is where trails stop being only places we go for a Saturday morning ride and start becoming part of how people can move around North Texas.

At BikeDFW, we've watched our region build some truly wonderful trails. The next big challenge is making sure those pieces connect.

That's why we're excited to see an organization specifically championing that bigger picture — and why Loop 15 Texas belongs in our North Texas Giving Day: Mobility Edition.

They're still building their organization and building momentum around this vision, which makes today an especially good opportunity to discover their work and help them keep moving it forward.

Fifteen cities. Three counties. One connected trail network.
Yeah. We want to see that happen. 💙🚲

If you do too, go get to know Loop 15 Texas and consider supporting their work this North Texas Giving Day.

💙🚲 North Texas Giving Day: Mobility Edition Spotlight

This next organization is especially close to our hearts.

Our friends at Bike Friendly South Dallas aren't simply encouraging people to ride bikes — they're working every day to make bicycling actually accessible to people in their community.

At their We-Cycle Resource Center, people can find bicycles, learn how to care for and repair them, get help with maintenance, participate in rides and bicycle education, and simply have a welcoming bicycle community to call their own.

Their Earn-A-Bike program gives people with limited resources an opportunity to volunteer their time toward earning a bicycle. And through their Hub & Spoke program, they've placed bicycle repair resources at community locations throughout South Dallas. 🚲

This is what bicycle access looks like on the ground.

A bicycle can be recreation, absolutely. But it can also mean transportation to work. A way to reach the grocery store. Independence. Physical activity. Connection to your neighborhood. And simply the joy of being able to go somewhere under your own power.

BikeDFW has been fortunate to work alongside BFSD over the years, and we're incredibly grateful that South Dallas has an organization committed not just to telling people they should ride — but helping remove some of the barriers that can keep them from doing it.

Because a more bicycle-friendly North Texas has to be one where more people actually have access to bicycling.

That's why Bike Friendly South Dallas absolutely belongs in our North Texas Giving Day: Mobility Edition. 💙

If their work speaks to you, take a minute tonight to get to know them — and consider supporting their work this North Texas Giving Day.