Tea for Texas

The Lone Star Randonneurs is full of characters. That includes Bill Rhodes, who is quickly cornering the “most dapper gentlemen” award (see photo). Here’s how Bill tells it: “Recently I took my new retro-look bike that I put together on the weekly Wednesday Night Dinner Ride in Plano. One of the ride leaders, a UT-Dallas professor remarked that the bike looked like it should be ridden by an Englishman with his country tweed attire. I took that as a challenge. But how to pull it off without dropping $1,500 on getting the proper English Shooting Suit tailor- made? By sheer luck I found a theatrical and film costume oriented secondhand clothing dealer in Plano, so I was able to get suitable (no pun intended) attire affordably. I wore the outfit on a Wednesday dinner ride. I think the prof’s jaw dropped— and he wasn’t the only one.”