{"id":11523,"date":"2012-01-22T22:34:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T04:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=11523"},"modified":"2012-01-22T22:34:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T04:34:23","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-january-22nd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/22\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-january-22nd-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for January 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hill Country Randonneurs<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is an organization to promote randonneuring throughout central Texas.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Come join us for some great scenery, enjoyable company, and pleasurable rides.<\/p>\n

This year we will have a populaire in March, so if you are a newbie who is thinking about trying randonneuring, this is the perfect ride for you. It is a shorter distance (only 62 miles) and will give you an opportunity to talk to some seasoned randonneurs and find out more about the sport. …<\/p>\n

Biking woman thwarts child kidnap attempt<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby bikedenton
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\nSaturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s DRC police blotter reports that a biking woman riding thwarted a man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempt to kidnap a child on Cooper Creek Rd. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the details, but that is a popular route to ride up towards Lake Ray Roberts, the Greenbelt, and the Clear Creek Nature Preserve.<\/p>\n

2700 block of Cooper Creek Road \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A woman riding her bike Friday helped a teenage girl in…<\/p>\n

Is Fort Worth’s plan to install showers for city workers all wet?<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nBy Dave Lieber\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Fort Worth Star-Telegram
\nA Fort Worth City Hall employee tipped The Watchdog that the city is spending almost $50,000 to build five showers so city workers can clean up after biking to work or exercising at lunchtime.<\/p>\n

“I have nothing against riding a bike to work,” the tipster wrote. “What I do take issue with is the city, in such dire straits, on a dead run to spend money to build showers so that folks can ride bicycles to work at City Hall. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hill Country Randonneurs is an organization to promote randonneuring throughout central Texas.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Come join us for some great scenery, enjoyable company, and pleasurable rides. This year we will have a populaire in March, so if you are a newbie who …<\/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":[1855,660,3356,2478],"class_list":["post-11523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-denton","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-fort-worth-city-hall","tag-hill-country-randonneurs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-2ZR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523","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=11523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}