Cool Cat Cycles

06/05/2026

Bike ride from Cinco Ranch to Herman Park! 70 miles out and back.

06/05/2026

Did you know that you can ride all the way from Hwy 6 to Herman Park/Zoo/Museum District exclusively on bike ways? Now you know! If you click the link at the bottom of this post to Ride With GPS platform, you can see the exact route.

🖌 Couple notes: if you have a gravel bike and you are coming from Cinco Ranch side, you can ride the levee to Westheimer Pkwy and then cross over at Westheimer Rd to abandoned West Oaks Mall parking lot. If you want to drive to the start of the route - you can park right there at the mall. Then the route will take you west to small neighborhood streets to Olivia Garden trail (first photo), onto McLendond Park trail, further east to Bishop Fiorenza trail and to Brays Bayou Greenways. Brays Bayou trail will take you all the way to Herman Park and further, if you wish to explore. Nowhere along the route you will be riding with cars or off road: the trails are paved, clean and mostly shaded by older taller trees. Whenever you need to cross the highway, there is a tunnel or a bridge. At 610 there is a shared use path with a traffic light. There are smaller clearly indicated crossings with smaller roads.

For those on road bikes coming from George Bush Park - you can ride to spillway and then on the shoulder of Hwy 6 to Piping Rock and weave your way towards Bishop Fiorenza Park - let us know if you need help navigating, we'll send you a route.

Also let us know if you'd like a tour - please note that it is roughly 70 mile trip out and back from Cinco Ranch, and 50 mile out and back from West Oak Mall parking lot. We will soon do a shorter ride to Bishop Fiorenza and back. Stay tuned!

Here is the route. We will post a reel with videos of the trail shortly.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/55505896

06/03/2026

🎉Happy World Bicycle Day! 🎉🚴‍♀️🎉Biking is not just a fun hobby. For many people, it is their way to get around, their sport, their life style, their work. It is tightly related to public health and safety, urbanism, tourism, mobility, and transportation systems. Here we selected some photos of our customers and what bikes are for them! Send us your pics in the comments, we will happily publish!

06/03/2026

Thank you 🙏 everyone who attended a ribbon cutting ceremony at Cinco Ranch Blvd underpass today, and huge, massive!!! gratitude to Willow Fork Drainage District and VP Gregg Nady who rallied Cinco Mud12, Fort Bend County Road and Bridge, HOA and other partners to fund this project. Lots more missing connections will be completed by / in 2027, and we are so excited to see how far we can ride our bikes in Cinco Ranch! ☺️

06/02/2026

Warning and Anger Post. ⚠️‼️ Our customer and friend was injured by an irresponsible e-biker in George Bush Park this weekend. A couple on regular road bikes were slowly (13 mph according to their bike computers data) crossing a bridge in George Bush Park, and a adult man, glued to his phone, heading towards them on a e-bike, ran into them as he wasn't staying in his lane because of distraction by the phone. The husband in the cycling couple was able to escape unhurt, but the ebiker ran into a wife.

‼️The weight of the ebike is 60 lbs and the power of the ebike is 500-700watts, which requires great skills and focus to be able to maneuver safely around people, pets, obstacles, etc. As a result of the crash, the female rider has a concussion, a shattered thumb which will require reconstructive surgery, bruised facial tissues with hematomas that will take weeks to subside.

📣When we as regular cyclists ride the trails, we choose to do so specifically to avoid the need to share with motorized vehicles constantly endangering us on roads. We want to ride around other people on bikes, whose speeds and power are similar to ours, so the risks of collision are essentially nonexistent, and if a collision occurs, the damage is much much smaller. We also ride and sell safe e-bikes, and we know that our e-bikes must be pedalled, require focus and constant involvement of the rider with the bicycle and the environment, and are not suitable for children.

😡‼️ We are absolutely appalled that the same people who are glued on their phone in their cars and are posing dangers to us on the road are now occupying the bike trails that we so hard advocate for and that require years of planning. We are appalled that our only safe place to ride - a paved separated bike path - is now slowly being overtaken by illegal, very fast, very heavy, very powerful emotos with people who have do not have skills to ride at speeds like their ebikes provide them with.

⚠️ It takes years of riding to be able to ride a regular bike constantly at 20mph. During these years of fitness training, the cyclist also acquires skills essential to maneuver at high speed. The newly born E-bikers do not have these skills yet and must be extremely vigilant at how they maneuver their e-bikes around vehicles and people.

‼️‼️‼️ Key Takeaway for anyone who is planning to get an ebike for themselves or their child - please understand that a lot of bikes you are getting online are much too powerful for you or specially your child to control safely around other people. You MUST work on your bike handling skills even more so on an ebike, you MUST look out for people on regular bikes and walkers, and if these incidents keep occuring, your ebikes will absolutely be kicked out from all bike paths, bike parks, sidewalks, etc.

06/02/2026

The argument against bike lanes is usually about cost. The evidence increasingly says that argument has it backwards.

A report from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, supported by the FIA Foundation, found that networks of protected bicycle lanes can be remarkably cost-effective. In the cities it studied, these networks created more economic value each year than they cost to build, paying for themselves in under a year once you account for transport savings and the health benefits of more people exercising. On that measure they outperformed far more expensive projects, including metro rail.

The safety case is just as strong. One of the most comprehensive studies of road safety, led by researchers at the University of Colorado Denver, found that it was not the number of cyclists that made a city safer, but the infrastructure built for them. Separated, protected lanes were linked to fewer fatalities for all road users, not only those on bikes.

The type of lane matters enormously. Research from Canadian cities including Toronto and Vancouver found that physically separated cycle tracks were far safer than painted lanes, and far better at convincing hesitant people to ride in the first place. Paint on the road, it turns out, does relatively little. A kerb or a row of bollards does a great deal.

Put together, the picture is hard to argue with. Protected lanes save lives, cut emissions, ease congestion, and often return their cost within a year. For cities still treating them as a luxury or a nuisance, the data suggests they are one of the best value investments a transport budget can make.

06/02/2026

05/29/2026

If you or your children use e-powered scooters and bikes - please understand the role speed and weight play in maneuvering, and consequences of crush with another biker or walker. In this case, two adults are dead, including an innocent cyclist who was crushed into by a man on a powerful e-scooter.

Two people died in a collision between a rider on an electric scooter and another on a bike during the morning commute on a New York City bridge on Thursday.

The commuters were heading in opposite directions on the Queensboro Bridge when they collided, according to police.

One of the individuals was driving a Blade GT II scooter, according to investigators, which is illegal to operate on New York City streets because it can reach speeds of more than 50 miles per hour, in excess of what the city allows for e-mobility devices. https://abcnews.visitlink.me/PfvBVN

05/28/2026

As a bike shop for everyone and in support of our LGBTQ+ friends and family, we have updated our T-shirts just in time for Pride month! Double side print, with rainbow in the front, Ally in the back! $25 per T, and we have one shopping canvas bag left, as well, also $25. DM if you want us to keep one for you! Sizes S - XL.