Date: Saturday – March 13, 2010
Time: 9 AM
Event: First Annual Schulenburg Texas Dance Hall Ride
Location: 531 N. Main Street, Schulenburg, TX 78956
Entry Fees: Registration $40
Routes: 15, 20, 32, 42 and 65 miles
Route Maps: Interactive Map
About the Ride:
The First Annual Texas Dance Hall Ride was established as a way to bring attention to the need for the preservation of historic dance halls throughout the state. At one time there were a thousand traditional dance halls in Texas. Many of those are already lost, and the ones that remain are at risk. No other place on the planet has this unique heritage, produced as it was by the mix of diverse immigrant cultures on the southwestern frontier. It was a place where the entire family came out on a Saturday night to enjoy live music and dance. By taking advantage of the location in Schulenburg, Texas we were able to create a course which would bring riders up close and personal to two 100 year-old dance halls. Both Swiss Alp Dance Hall and Sengelmann Hall are restored, fully functioning dance halls and are involved in the bike ride. Riders will have the opportunity to check them both out on the course! There will be live music, food and drink just after the ride. We’re encouraging riders to stay the night (there’s a Best Western in town), and enjoy the music of Reckless Kelly at Swiss Alp on Saturday night. Riders will have the opportunity to check it out plus a lot more. Hope you can all come out!
Website: http://www.sugarcycles.com/schulenburg2010.php
Registration: Online registration
Email: [email protected]
Additional Info:
Sugar Cycles presents the first annual Texas Dance Hall Ride, that will take place on Saturday, March 13, 2010. Multiple ride options include 15, 20, 32, 42 and 65 miles. All distances start in front of the historic Senglemann’s Dance Hall on Main Streeet. Riders of all ages and capabilities will be able to tour the famous Painted Churches constructed by German and Czech communities during the 1890’s. The riders will also get to experience two of Texas’ historic dance halls, both over one hundred years old, Sengelmann’s and Swiss Alp.
First 500 to register will receive a free ride t-shirt!
Directions:
Leaving Houston, take
I-10 West 88 miles. Exit
US-90, exit 677. Turn
left onto US-90. Turn
left onto TX-222 SPUR/LYONS AVE.
Turn right onto N. Main
St. 531 N Main St. is on
your right.
