{"id":1894,"date":"2009-02-16T23:51:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T05:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2009-02-16T23:51:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T05:51:53","slug":"blogs-and-news-february-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/blogs-and-news-february-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs and News: February 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/02\/15\/review-a-first-look-at-the-madsen-bucket-cargo-bike\/\" target=\"_blank\">Review: A first look at the Madsen Bucket cargo bike | Austin On <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">elliott<\/span><\/div>\n<p>A few months ago, one of my neighbors spotted me taking my kids to school on our <strong>bicycle<\/strong> mini-van, a Trek 7200 with an Xtracycle Free Radical conversion kit.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/mellowvelo.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/16\/one-mans-trash-is-another-mans-trash\/\" target=\"_blank\">One man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trash is another man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 trash \u00c2\u00ab mellow velo<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">10thousandfeet<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Thank goodness for the <strong>Tour<\/strong> of California. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still laid up recovering from the flu, so all I can do is think about cycling, read about cycling, watch cycling and clean my bike. I already re-taped the handlebars to bring in some color <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nearlyfamousfred.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/oh-horror.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nearly Famous Fred &#8211; <strong>Texas<\/strong> Cyclist: Oh, the horror<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">Nearly Famous Fred<\/span><\/div>\n<p>When I posted a few weeks ago that there was nothing more boring than watching a flat stage of a pro cycling <strong>race<\/strong>, I might have been mistaken. I had forgotten how mind numbingly boring an individual time trial can be to watch. <strong>&#8230;<\/strong> I  recently came into possession of some very nice Trek <strong>bicycles<\/strong>, complete with the Astana paint scheme, that I&#8217;m looking to sell. One is actually a tricked out time trial bike. Any interested parties should post a comment on this blog. <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fcswhitney.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/valley-of-sun.html\" target=\"_blank\">Whitney Schultz: Valley of the Sun<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">Whitney<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Whitney: I&#8217;m a junior Marketing major\/MIS minor at the University of <strong>Texas<\/strong> at Austin. I race for Metro Volkswagen <strong>Cycling<\/strong> Team. I work for Clif Bar and Company and help run the University of <strong>Texas Cycling<\/strong> Team. Let&#8217;s get this <strong>cycling<\/strong> <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/inmyopinioniamright.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/my-road-rage.html\" target=\"_blank\">In My Opinion, I am right: My Road Rage<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">Kevin W<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It is fun to moo at cows when you are riding. 5. Yes, it is normal to feel every single bump in the road. 6. When they say it feels terrible to be &#8220;dropped&#8221;, it is the truth. 7. Flying down hills is as much fun now as it was when you were a kid but now it&#8217;s faster. 8. When I am wearing my bike shorts and stop at a convenient store people avoid making eye contact. 9. Padding <strong>cycling<\/strong> shorts are awesome. <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abductedcow.com\/2009\/02\/16\/mas-o-menos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abductedcow \u00c2\u00bb Mas o Menos<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">wadeferd<\/span><\/div>\n<p>As we stared into the guts of Germ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Subaru in Junction, <strong>Texas<\/strong> looking at the smoking viscous mass that had spewed onto one of the catalytic converters (yes there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two &#8211; twice pipes, dude), I realize that things are a bit more complicated these days. <strong>&#8230;<\/strong> The purpose for our little jaunt west, was of course the Mas o Menos Marathon <strong>mountain bike<\/strong> race in Terlingua &#8211; 30 miles (or 60 depending on your stupidity level) of serious suffering through the Chihuahuan desert. <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review: A first look at the Madsen Bucket cargo bike | Austin On &#8230; by elliott A few months ago, one of my neighbors spotted me taking my kids to school on our bicycle mini-van, a Trek 7200 with an <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/blogs-and-news-february-16th\/\"><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":[660],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-uy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","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=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}