Oh There are a lot of fun roads, but be forewarned its VERY hard to avoid Chip Seal throughout the North Texas Area, bring your cushy tires.  
 
I'll make a route proposal in a few days, but in general I'm looking at  
 
Pilot Point
Tioga
Gunter
Howe
Tom Bean
Blue Ridge
Melissa
Weston
Celina
Aubrey
Pilot Point
 
I suggest some other people draw up routes as well,  We can vote.
I intend to mix in a lot of small roads I know.
 
Take Care,
Nelson.

Hi Nelson - after our 2XDart, aka Fleche in 2007, I think we learned how hard it is logistically for a point-to-point route.  As long as a loop is permitted for a Dart, I would recommend it.
 
A loop also gives you the ability to ride in both a head and tail wind.  If you remember our Fleche, point-to-point we battled a a fierce head wind to 100 plus miles.  
 
I'm looking foward to the Dart.  Even though our Fleche was extremely difficult, it's a great team event, primarily because you have to stay together, and finish together, AS A TEAM....

Bud - for unknown reasons, Nelson and I are surrounded by some type of vortex that always results in grand adventures.
 
Have you (Bud) sent anything to Dan D., or whoever the Dart contact is letting them know we plan on having a team?  I've not kept up with the correspondence, thus don't know the due dates for route submission, etc...
 
Also, how many rbent riders want to ride a Dart? Is there enough interest for more than one team?

Quote from bikerteam on Sep 5^th, 2008, 2:54pm:

 
I replied to George Evans by email right after we got a team together, and told him we had a team. I think the next thing we need to do is submit a route. I'll check and see when the deadline is.
 
So, to verify, our team is:
 
Me
Greg
Nelson
Ray
Paul
 
Greg, are you still in?
 
Paul, it's just as well that you won't be on the X-Stream. By RUSA Dart rules, "At least 25 km must have been ridden between the end of the 10th hour and the 12th hour of the ride." That means we have to use most of the 12 hours to complete our 180k, so you aren't going to be Speedy Gonzales on that ride anyway.

Quote from Bud_Bent on Sep 5^th, 2008, 7:09pm:

 
 
Wow, I wasn't aware of that...  Interesting -- I wonder what the reasoning is for intentionally keeping down the pace???  All my 200Ks so far have been ~9.5 hours -- heck, where's my EZ-3 trike???  

I guess I got George cranked up on the Dart. He posted this message in the LSR google group. Here's his schedule for the Dart teams:
 
1. Identify captains and team members - Friday, 12 Sept
2. Sign and send waivers - Saturday, 20 Sept
3. Send routes and schedules - Thursday 25 Sept
 
I'll go ahead and send him the info on the team. Will everyone on the team download, print out, and sign the waiver? You can download it here. George says after signing it, you can scan it and email it to him, hand it to him at the September 20th brevets, or snail mail it to him. Email him here.  
 
Still working on our route, Nelson?

Do we need to name our Dart team?