A young man rode his bike to see his ailing grandmother in Slaton. He wasn’t riding across the neighborhood or even across town. Jon Stringer was only passing through Slaton and Lubbock on his way from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska. And this was the grandmother and grandson’s last visit before he continued on his ride […]

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – The Sense Corp Texas 4000 for Cancer team started their 70-day journey from Austin to Alaska and their fight against cancer on June 6th, and will be biking their way through Lubbock on Wednesday. The bikers will be riding along the Slaton Highway to 19th and Buddy Holly, then to 16th […]

It’s a story of one local daughter’s love for her mom. On Sunday, June 7, Courtney Summerville gets on a bicycle in Austin. In late August, she’ll get off that bike in Anchorage, Alaska. Her trip will last 70 days and over 4,800 miles. So why is she making this ride? Because she loved her […]

The kind of gumption it takes to spend three hot summer months riding a bicycle 4,000 miles across mountains, deserts and forests is, to say the least, uncommon. But to the 41 or so members of Texas 4000, all students at the University of Texas in Austin, the challenge, pain and sometimes even grueling misery […]