2025 Challenge Rides

Challenge Rides

To receive a Challenge Ride patch, choose a Challenge Ride for the Year and complete five of the six locations of that Challenge Ride at your own pace. To document completing the Challenge Ride, take pictures of your bike in front of the destination sign, collect these pictures over the course of the year and provide the photos to the Safety Officer to receive a Challenge Ride patch.

2025 Challenge Rides

Option One: The Texas Post Offices Challenge Ride

The Texas Post Offices Challenge Ride takes you to small town, historic one-room U.S. Post Offices. A video for the Texas Post Offices Challenge Ride is available on @Rearviews Rides. The full list of sites for the Texas Post Office Chapter Challenge Ride includes (click on the link for history of these locations):

1. Doss, Tx
2. Pontotoc, Tx
3. Telegraph, Tx
4. Barksdale, Tx
5. Batesville, Tx
6. Pipe Creek, TX

Figure 1. The Texas Post Offices Challenge Ride full route.

To make this Challenge Ride more manageable, the route has been divided into three sections of two post offices each.

Texas Post Offices: 1st two (Doss and Pontotoc)

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Figure 2. The first two Texas Post Offices route.

Texas Post Offices: 2nd two (Telegraph and Barksdale)

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Figure 3. The second two Texas Post Offices route.

Texas Post Offices: 3rd two (Batesville and Pipe Creek)

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Figure 4. The third two Texas Post Offices route.

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Option Two: The Texas Forts Trail Challenge Ride

The Texas Forts Trail Challenge Ride takes you to historic Forts from the frontier of early Texas. A video for the Texas Forts Trail Challenge Ride is available on @Rearviews Rides. The full list of sites for the Challenge Ride on the Texas Historic Forts Trail includes (click on the link for history of these locations):

1. Ft. Belknap, Young County
2. Ft. Griffin, Shackelford County
3. Ft. Chadbourne, Coke County
4. Ft. Concho, Tom Green County
5. Ft. McKavett, Menard County
6. Presidio San Luis de San Saba, Menard County

Note: Some of these sites have entrance fees. The sites are managed by different agancies and organizations (federal, state, county, and private organizations).

Figure 5. The Texas Forts Trail Challenge Ride full route.

To make this Challenge Ride more manageable, the route has been divided into two days for an overnight trip.

Texas Forts Trail: Day One (Fort Belknap and Fort Griffin), with a stay in Abilene.

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Figure 6. Day one route for the Texas Forts Trail ride.

Texas Forts Trail: Day Two (Fort Chadbourne, Fort Concho, Fort McKavitt, and Presidio San Luis de San Saba)

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Figure 7. Day two route for the Texas Forts Trail ride.