{"id":11304,"date":"2012-01-04T21:57:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T03:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=11304"},"modified":"2012-01-04T21:57:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T03:57:54","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-january-4th-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-january-4th-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for January 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Performance recalls 2,900 Forte pedals<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nBicycle Retailer & Industry News
\nCHAPEL HILL, NC (BRAIN)\u00e2\u20ac\u201dPerformance, Inc., is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall about 2,900 Forte Pro Carbon road pedals. The pedal body can break, causing the rider to lose control. The company has received reports of three pedals breaking; no injuries were reported.
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\nThe 2011 model year pedals have black bodies made of a carbon-injected thermoplastic. The front, top of the pedal has “Carbon” printed in red; the top middle has “EPS-R” embossed in the body with the “R” in red and on…<\/p>\n

Safety in numbers: more walkers and bicyclists, safer walking and bicycling.<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby: P. L. Jacobsen
\nInjury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, Vol. 9, No. 3. (1 September 2003), pp. 205-209.
\nX Abstract<\/p>\n

A motorist is less likely to collide with a person walking and bicycling if more people walk or bicycle. Policies that increase the numbers of people walking and bicycling appear to be an effective route to improving the safety of people walking and bicycling.<\/p>\n

With all of the trees being cut down due to the drought and pine bark beatles this is a way to use some of the output.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Converting Condemned Trees into Bikes<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Mark Frauenfelder\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Make Magazine
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