{"id":4730,"date":"2010-05-18T23:46:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T04:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2010-05-18T23:46:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T04:46:03","slug":"daily-news-roundup-may-18th-texas-bicycling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/daily-news-roundup-may-18th-texas-bicycling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup May 18th &#8211; Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/pathlesspedaled.com\/?p=1499\" href=\"http:\/\/pathlesspedaled.com\/?p=1499\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Bicycle-Travel-Friendly World | The Path Less Pedaled<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Laura<br \/>\nSo, yesterday, we put a letter in the mail to the folks at the Texas State Parks HQ, challenging them to be more welcoming of bicycle travelers. If you&#8217;d like to read the text of the letter, head over to our Facebook Fan Page and read &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3316\/4587564330_bd10dea64c.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" alt=\"Texas Parks\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2010\/05\/18\/2198088\/bicyclists-will-take-to-north.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bicyclists will take to North Texas roads in &#8216;Ride of Silence&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Fort Worth Star Telegram<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a good chance that motorists will see dozens of bicyclists on North Texas roadways on Wednesday. Hundreds of bicyclists will be riding in North &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/texastailwind.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/texastailwind.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/18\/race-report-horse-country-time-trials\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Race\u00c2\u00a0 Report \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Horse Country Time Trials \u00c2\u00ab Texas Tailwind<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Ben<br \/>\nLast weekend I rode in the Horse Country Time Trials in Aubrey, TX.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a 20K TT series that runs 3 or 4 times a year. This was my first time on this course and only my 3rd time trial ever (the other two being the 39.5K TT in Mineral Wells last summer and the 6 hour Texas Time Trials in Sept.).<\/p>\n<p>I rode my Kuota K-Factor with Flashpoint FP60 wheels. My rear Flashpoint&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/texastailwind.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/ben-horse-country-tt-may.jpg?w=500&#038;h=332&#038;fit=500%2C332&#038;resize=500%2C332\" alt=\"Horse Country Time Trial\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/herald-zeitung.com\/news\/local_news\/article_32a3825c-62ee-11df-8bd9-001cc4c03286.html\" href=\"http:\/\/herald-zeitung.com\/news\/local_news\/article_32a3825c-62ee-11df-8bd9-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bike to Work Day coming Friday<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Herald Zeitung<br \/>\nA yellow bike program takes used commuter bicycles, paints them yellow like a taxi and leaves them at designated posts for anyone to use \u00e2\u20ac\u201d simply ride to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.leader-news.com\/articles\/2010\/05\/16\/lifestyle\/doc4beaa718df0cc732786872.txt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leader-news.com\/articles\/2010\/05\/16\/lifestyle\/doc4beaa718df0cc732786872.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>El Campo Leader-News &gt; Lifestyle &gt; Riding For A Cause &amp; Cure<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThe sons of Leonardo and Elma Escobar of El Campo, Raphael \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ralph\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Ronaldo \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ronnie\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Escobar, recently completed their 15th consecutive year as riders in the MS150 from Houston to Austin.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ralph and I began participating in the MS150 in 1996 as a challenge to ourselves,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said brother Ronnie Escobar. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We ride because others can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This year also marks the 10th consecutive year we have ridden as ride&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.townnews.com\/leader-news.com\/content\/articles\/2010\/05\/16\/lifestyle\/doc4beaa718df0cc732786872.jpg?resize=624%2C399\" alt=\"Ride for Cure\" width=\"624\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bicycle-Travel-Friendly World | The Path Less Pedaled by Laura So, yesterday, we put a letter in the mail to the folks at the Texas State Parks HQ, challenging them to be more welcoming of bicycle travelers. If you&#8217;d like <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/daily-news-roundup-may-18th-texas-bicycling-2\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[123,1663,5253,179,1763,630],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-to-work-day","tag-horse-country-time-trial","tag-news","tag-ride-of-silence","tag-riding-for-a-cause-cure","tag-texas-state-parks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1ei","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}