State Bike Ride -
Saddle Up!

March 25, 1979

If your secret ambition has been to ride a bicycle across Oklahoma, your big chance is at hand.

Because that's just what some folks are going to be doing starting June 10 - pedaling from the Red River clear to Kansas.

It's the Tulsa World Oklahoma Ride, a joint effort of the Tulsa World and the Tulsa Wheelmen, a bicycling club.

But it's not confined to a few World staffers and Wheelmen. In fact, anybody who wants to will be welcome to ride along. Regardless of age, sex or previous bicycling experience.

The World and Wheelmen will map out the rout, which tentatively will begin in the Lake Texoma area and extend to the Kansas border north of Bartlesville. And they'll arrange for overnight camping stops, traffic protection and similar details.

Each rider will have to provide his (or her) own bike, transportation to the starting point, camping equipment and other gear and will have to pay for meals and other expenses. And each rider, of course rides at his own risk.

There's no entry fee, no reward other than the joy of riding. You don't even have to ride the whole way if you don't want to - you can ride one day or part of each day or whatever you feel like doing. Alone or with your friends or your entire family.

The ride is planned to cover 50 or 60 miles a day, starting on Sunday, June 10, and ending on Saturday, June 16.

And the whole idea is to just have fun.

If you ride, the World will arrange to have your baggage transported (free) from one stop to the next. To reserve your baggage ticket, just fill out the attached form (one ticket per person, please) and mail it to:

Tulsa World Oklahoma Ride
PO Box 1770
Tulsa, OK 74102