{"id":1927,"date":"2009-02-19T20:17:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T02:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2009-02-19T20:17:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T02:17:35","slug":"whats-clogging-the-tubes-bike-tubes-that-is-for-february-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/whats-clogging-the-tubes-bike-tubes-that-is-for-february-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Clogging the Tubes (Bike tubes that is) for February 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/beamsclanstories.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/social-life-of-my-34-bicycles.html\" target=\"_blank\">Longer Missives: The Social Life of My 34 Bicycles<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">The Beams Family<\/span><\/div>\n<p>This <strong>bicycle<\/strong> moved with me from Waldorf to Lufkin , <strong>Texas<\/strong> and then on to Benbrook , <strong>Texas<\/strong> . In Lufkin I would ride laps around our sub-division. We lived at 612 Willow Oak Drive . One lap around our neighborhood was a little over a mile <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/mellowvelo.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/19\/the-beautiful-bicycle\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Beautiful <strong>Bicycle<\/strong> \u00c2\u00ab mellow velo<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">10thousandfeet<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Even single-gear heads and racers can agree &#8211; above the fracas of whether or not one cog or ten is true cycling &#8211; that the <strong>bicycle<\/strong> is a beautiful thing. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why I carefully selected bottle cages, handlebar tape, a saddle and tires that <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/reviews.mtbr.com\/blog\/usa-cycling-mountain-bike-national-ultra-endurance-calendar-standings-feb-17\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Ultra-Endurance Calendar <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">adam<\/span><\/div>\n<p>In the inaugural <strong>race<\/strong> on the 2009 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Ultra-Endurance Calendar Bryan Fawley (Austin, <strong>Texas<\/strong>\/Park Place Lexus) and Rebecca Rusch (Ketchum, Idaho\/Specialized-Red Bull) earned wins in the pro men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/texascycle.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/dear-john.html\" target=\"_blank\">The <strong>Texas<\/strong> Cycle: Dear John<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">Kahne<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Monday adjustments did not make any appreciable difference in today&#8217;s <strong>ride<\/strong>: it (my shoulder-neck) was worse than ever. I have tried everything I know how to do short of doing flips on the bike&#8211;windmilling my left arm backwards to <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.offthekuff.com\/mt\/archives2\/2009\/02\/013302.html\" target=\"_blank\">Off the Kuff: More on the safe passing bill<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">Charles Kuffner<\/span><\/div>\n<p>In 2007, the last year for which statistics are available, 698 cyclists were killed in the United States, 48 of them in <strong>Texas<\/strong>. Also that year, 4833 motorcyclists, 375 of them in <strong>Texas<\/strong>, and 4654 pedestrians were killed. <strong>&#8230;<\/strong> Situation: I <strong>ride<\/strong> my road bike on Washington Ave. where there is a dedicated bike lane. The riding surface is terrible thus I rather <strong>ride<\/strong> on the vehicle lane. It makes me wonder what drivers think when they see a cyclists not riding on the bike lane but <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/spt\/columnists\/dfetterman\/stories\/022009dnspofettermancol.2e20ba4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Texas<\/strong> Tough charity race becomes company project<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">Dallas Morning News &#8211; Dallas,TX,USA<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Sackett served as captain of the company&#8217;s <strong>Texas<\/strong> Tough <strong>cycling<\/strong> team last September. Five employees raised $2500 and created a buzz that resulted in 21 <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/mtb4130.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/san-antonio-tx-to-pensacola-fl-via.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MTB<\/strong> and ASPHALT: San Antonio <strong>TX<\/strong> to Pensacola FL via Haro&#8230;for a job!<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">jill hamilton<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Michael, a bike department manager at the Sun and Ski Sports store in San Antonio, told me about a homeless man who saved and saved so he could buy a Haro Del Sol comfort bike to ride from <strong>Texas<\/strong> to Florida to take a job. <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/mtblawgirl.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/camera-recommendations.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>mtb<\/strong> law girl: Camera recommendations?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">mtblawgirl<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>mtb<\/strong> law girl. musings, trails and tribulations of a girl living and riding in austin, <strong>texas<\/strong>. Thursday, February 19, 2009. Camera recommendations? Hi all. Well my birthday is just around the corner and on my wishlist <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longer Missives: The Social Life of My 34 Bicycles by The Beams Family This bicycle moved with me from Waldorf to Lufkin , Texas and then on to Benbrook , Texas . In Lufkin I would ride laps around our <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/whats-clogging-the-tubes-bike-tubes-that-is-for-february-19th\/\"><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-1927","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-v5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","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=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}