The Lawndale Tank ride changed to Saturday since heavy rain predicted for Veterans Day.  Leaving 9:00 from Meadowood for 50 miles of rolling and hills.  See Calendar for details.

Updated route is closer to the Classic, but I think rwgps routed onto Brick Store rather than keeping to Falls Road à la the Classic route. That part of Falls Rd, Gunpowder to Beckleysville, is fine and often less traffic than Brick Store.

Google has changed how locations pins are put on their maps.  As a result the BBC Calendar maps do NOT show start locations specifically.  Ride leaders should put actual address and/or BBC start codes in ride posts.
Hopefully this will be resolved soon.  This also applies to the Rides Map on the Calendar webpage.

Filling Station works if you take Carroll to Sparks to York Rd rather than Glencoe.  Then after Filling Station, continue south on York to right on E. Quaker Bottom to Priceville.
With the above there is no backtrack and only one cross of York Rd.

Baltimore County will permanently preserve a 23-acre farm in the Piney Run Rural Legacy Area in northwest Baltimore County.

https://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/count … cy-program

December 02, 2021 Baltimore County
In the latest effort to support land preservation, County Executive Johnny Olszewski today announced the County will permanently preserve a 23-acre farm in the Piney Run Rural Legacy Area in northwest Baltimore County—the first easement funded through the County’s Rural Legacy program since 2015.

The easement on the 23-acre farm protects the agricultural land which currently include pasture and woodlands. By protecting the land in perpetuity, the County will help preserve the water quality of Piney Run and the view from Mt. Zion Road, a Baltimore County Scenic Route.

A 16-year-old Texas boy is charged with multiple felony counts after he allegedly hit a group of six bicyclists with his pickup truck while trying to blow exhaust on them, authorities announced Monday.

The Waller County district attorney’s office said in a statement that a teenager who drove his vehicle into bicyclists training for a triathlon, hitting all six riders and sending four to the hospital, has been charged with six counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon — one charge for each cyclist hit on Sept. 25. The teen, who has yet to be publicly identified, was not charged or cited by police after the incident, despite accounts from victims and witnesses that he deliberately antagonized the riders.

“Over the last six weeks this office has assigned its own investigators to seek out evidence, and to interview the victims and witnesses,” the statement said. “Earlier today the juvenile voluntarily surrendered himself, and was detained by representatives from the juvenile justice department where he will be held in custody until further orders of the juvenile court.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 … k-charges/

It has been reported that the change in the Silo Hill Exxon into a Sunoco also finds a sign saying "No Public Restrooms".

BMW Championship Underway At Caves Valley Golf Club In Owings Mills.
So wise to avoid Park Heights Ave and also possibly Greenspring Ave and Garrison Forest.

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/us/s … izona.html

Police Shoot Driver Who Struck Cyclists at Arizona Bike Race

Six people were seriously injured when a man driving a pickup truck plowed into cyclists at a bike race in Show Low, Ariz., the police said. The driver was then shot and wounded by the police.

The driver of a pickup truck hit a group of cyclists at a bicycle race in Show Low, Ariz., on Saturday, seriously injuring six people before the driver fled and was shot by the police, the authorities said.

The driver of the truck, a black Ford Super Duty, struck the bicyclists during the Bike the Bluff race at about 7:25 a.m. local time, the police said.

Officers tried to stop the driver, which “ultimately led to the suspect being shot,” about a mile and a half away, Navajo County Emergency Management and Preparedness said in a statement.

The driver, a 35-year-old man, was in critical but stable condition, the agency said.

Six people were taken to a hospital. Four were in critical condition, and two were in critical but stable condition, the police said. Two or three other victims walked into the hospital, the police said.

Robert Marchand, a diminutive Frenchman who once was told he would never excel in cycling only to set world records as a centenarian, died May 22 at a care facility in Mitry-Mory, France, outside Paris. He was 109.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ob … story.html