{"id":10146,"date":"2011-10-16T23:22:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T04:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=10146"},"modified":"2011-10-16T23:22:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T04:22:36","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-october-16th2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/16\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-october-16th2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for October 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikedfw.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/bikedfw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Members and Friends of BikeDFW,<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nFrom 12 to 6 PM this coming Saturday, October 22nd, BikeDFW will be participating in a <a title=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyoc.wordpress.com\/cyclesomatic-2011\/cyclesomatic-bicycle-fair-and-showcase\/\" href=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyoc.wordpress.com\/cyclesomatic-2011\/cyclesomatic-bicycle-fair-and-showcase\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bike Fair and Exposition<\/strong><\/a> in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, organized by Bike Friendly Oak Cliff and hosted by Richardson Bike Mart. This should be a super-fun event that brings together all kinds of cyclists from all over DFW.<br \/>\nBikeDFW will be running:<br \/>\nA bike safety and education booth<br \/>\nA bicycle powered smoothie stand (like this)<br \/>\nA kids Bike Safety Rodeo (like this)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cycleaustin.com\/2011\/10\/levi-leipheimer-chris-horner-ben-king.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cycleaustin.com\/2011\/10\/levi-leipheimer-chris-horner-ben-king.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Levi Leipheimer, Chris Horner &amp; Ben King at Mellow Johnny&#8217;s<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Corey Carter<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-0Sm7OgTV4Xo\/Tptpj8pnZ4I\/AAAAAAAAAjc\/o0gLeOMSyeg\/s1600\/LeviBenChris_Edit1.jpg?resize=640%2C358\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday Levi Leipheimer, Chris Horner and Ben King of Team RadioShack were in town and at Mellow Johnny&#8217;s doing a Q&amp;A and autograph session as part of this year&#8217;s Livestrong Challenge Austin event. Fellow RadioShack rider&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.oldtascosacycling.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oldtascosacycling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Green Chili Cheeseburger Poker Ride\/Run 10\/23\/2011\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> <\/a><br \/>\nOld Tascosa Cycling Club ride<br \/>\nRAGE-N-NUGGET writes &#8220;Palo Duro Canyon State Park 10\/23\/2011 12pm to 3pm<br \/>\nGreen Chili Cheeseburgers and Poker Ride\/Run. Fabulous prizes and yummy food. All proceeds will be donated to benefit TPAWD employees impacted by wildfire. 10$ donation, Contact Matt Melvin for more info or post on this reply.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/thousands-join-lance-armstrong-cancer-survivors-at-the-team-livestrongr-challenge-in-austin-2011-10-15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/thousands-join-lance-armstrong-cancer-survivors-at-the-team-livestrongr-challenge-in-austin-2011-10-15\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Thousands Join Lance Armstrong, Cancer Survivors at the Team LIVESTRONG(R) Challenge in Austin<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nEvent Raises More Than $2.3 Million and Attracts 4,300 Participants to Champion Cancer Survivors<br \/>\nAUSTIN, TX, Oct 15, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) &#8212; Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor, cycling champion and LIVESTRONG(R) founder and chairman, is celebrating 15 years of cancer survivorship by joining 4,300 fellow survivors, advocates and supporters who are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members and Friends of BikeDFW, From 12 to 6 PM this coming Saturday, October 22nd, BikeDFW will be participating in a Bike Fair and Exposition in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, organized by Bike Friendly Oak Cliff and hosted <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/16\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-october-16th2\/\"><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":[3116,2194,1081,3119,660,3118,2416,3117,460],"class_list":["post-10146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-fair","tag-bike-friendly-oak-cliff","tag-bikedfw","tag-cancer-survivors","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-mellow-johnnys","tag-old-tascosa-cycling-club","tag-team-radioshack","tag-the-livestrong-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-2DE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}