{"id":11255,"date":"2011-12-30T23:57:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T05:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=11255"},"modified":"2011-12-30T23:57:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T05:57:49","slug":"texas-bicycling-daily-news-roundup-december-29th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/texas-bicycling-daily-news-roundup-december-29th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Daily News Roundup December 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why 2011 Was the Best Year of My Life<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nBy Shawn\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Texas Mountain Bike Trails
\nAs much as I look forward to 2012, I will always look back at 2011 as one of the best years of my life.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t often talk about what is going on in my personal life, even outside of my twitter feed (@TexasMTBtrails), but this marks the end of a year and I want you to feel like you know a little bit about who I am. I want you to feel like I am the kind of guy that you want to race through the trails with or grab coffee with. I am a fanatic fan of both.<\/p>\n

For those of you reading who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know anything about me personally, you are about to receive a brief crash course. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s post is entirely about the things that have happened in my life over the…<\/p>\n

Year End Airing of Grievances \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bike edition<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby minorbaker\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Austin on Two Wheels
\nThe time is now for everyone to stand around the Festivus pole and air our grievances. I see it as my purging of the bad mojo before the start of a new year. As a highly cynical individual I have plenty of people and situations I would like to grieve, but for the purpose of this post, I will keep it to bike related items.<\/p>\n

Rear Derailluer adjustment is for the birds\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.at least in my case. All other elements of basic bike maintenance I can now perform to at least an adequate level, but no matter how much I read, or how many YouTube videos I watch about adjusting the rear derailluer, I still struggle to make it function perfectly. When I do stumble into a…<\/p>\n

Spring Creek Trail Looks Worse Than I Thought<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby dickdavid\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Bike Friendly Richardson
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\nLast week the City of Richardson announced that they would be closing off portions of the Spring Creek Trail for repairs. Since I typically ride the west section, from the Routh Creek Parkway ramp to the Central Expressway underpasses, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the extent of the wear and tear on the trail.<\/p>\n

I took a spin thought the entire length this morning and discovered that it was much worse than I thought. Here are some pics of just a few areas marked for…<\/p>\n

I have to admit I would not be caught dead with a bike bell but this looks very sharp.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Crane Bike Bell, life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simple pleasures<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Christopher Curnutt\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Biking in Dallas
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\nThe Dallas Chic Boutique ride began at Transit Bikes the other day and it was awfully nice of them to serve us all Mimosas while we waited in their shop for everyone to arrive.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really in the market for new bike bits until I saw the modest collection of bike bells.\u00c2\u00a0 I recalled I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve meant to add bells to all of my bikes so I took this opportunity to pick out a nice, shiny, brass bike bell made by Crane.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so shiny I could not take a close…<\/p>\n

St. Kitts-Nevis Association of Houston, TX Donates to Police Force<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nBy L.K. Hewlett\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0www.thestkittsnevisobserver.com
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\nThe St. Kitts and Nevis Association of Houston, Texas has donated two bicycles to the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force.<\/p>\n

At a brief handing over ceremony at Police Headquarters on Wednesday (Dec 28), SKANA Houston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s representative Dennis Warner presented Police Commissioner CG Walwyn with the two Smith &Wesson bicycles. Warner said it was more than a privilege to be able to give back to the…<\/p>\n

Evolution Resolutions Love<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\n“All endeavors start out stupid; the trick is making them smart” – The Plano Cyclist.<\/p>\n

The only thing that has been consistent about this blog for the past few years have been the “resolutions” posts that I put up at New Years, so even though this is Friday and I should be linkdumping, I’m going to be resolving instead. So here we go:<\/p>\n

1. I want to continue to grow my readership. As you can see, I have put up a ton of posts this year, adding product reviews, a regular feature (Linkdump) and a little more structure to the blog. I have nearly reached 10,000 views, and I hope to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why 2011 Was the Best Year of My Life By Shawn\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Texas Mountain Bike Trails As much as I look forward to 2012, I will always look back at 2011 as one of the best years of my life. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[2462,963,3324,5253,2621,2896,3080],"class_list":["post-11255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-austin-on-two-wheels","tag-bicycle-police","tag-bike-bell","tag-news","tag-spring-creek-trail","tag-texas-mountain-bike-trails","tag-the-plano-cyclist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-2Vx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255","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=11255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}