{"id":1947,"date":"2009-02-23T23:12:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T05:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2009-02-23T23:12:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T05:12:05","slug":"blogs-news-and-other-stuff-february-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/blogs-news-and-other-stuff-february-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs, News and Other Stuff, February 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/02\/23\/route-report-access-to-lance-armstrong-bikeway-restored-at-north-side-of-cesar-chavez-at-sandra-muraida-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">Route Report: Access to Lance Armstrong Bikeway restored at north <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">elliott<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Additional <strong>bicycle<\/strong> and pedestrian routes will be added in the area with the completion of Sand Beach Park in 2009 and the Pfluger Bridge Extension project in 2010. Ultimately there will be a variety of routes to take bicycles and pedestrians from south of Lady Bird Lake to the Market District and beyond&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/velotutor.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/new-texas-law-bicycle-safety.html\" target=\"_blank\">VeloTutor: New <strong>Texas<\/strong> Law &#8211; <strong>Bicycle<\/strong> Safety<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">Bobby<\/span><\/div>\n<p>New <strong>Texas<\/strong> Law &#8211; <strong>Bicycle<\/strong> Safety. As a cyclist in <strong>Texas<\/strong> I am aware that most motorist don&#8217;t like us. When my friends and I head out onto the open roads we are harassed, honked and yelled at, have had stuff thrown at us, and I have even <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/02\/23\/race-reports-abound-from-this-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Race<\/strong> reports abound from this weekend | Austin On Two Wheels<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">elliott<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Wenger comments on how his back was hurting during the <strong>race<\/strong> from having to constantly lean into the 30 mph+ winds. While Wenger podiumed for third in the Pro\/cat 1 field, Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bike Blog has a report of just trying to hang on in the Cat 5 field. After being dropped off the back at Schwertner, Mike partnered with another racer to form an echelon to get off the <strong>&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/katiesnursingjourney.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/shoal-creek-sunday-stroll.html\" target=\"_blank\">burnt orange piping: Shoal Creek Sunday Stroll<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">katie<\/span><\/div>\n<p>(btw, for you who are not cyclists, a trainer is a device you can use in your home to <strong>ride<\/strong> your road bike inside like a stationary bike) So today we intended to meet up with other HCRA riders, but we missed their meeting time as we were trying to get in about fifteen miles before <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/life\/hoffman\/6277010.html\" target=\"_blank\">A suggestion for MS150 alternate route<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>By KEN HOFFMAN Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n<p id=\"id2431893\" class=\"Columnist-ColumnistIntroDropCap HoustonDeck\">If San Antonio-to-Corpus Christi can take my advice, why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Houston-to-Austin?<\/p>\n<p id=\"id2431944\" class=\"Text-TextRagRight1P0Indent HoustonText\">Starting this year, its 20th anniversary, the autumn MS150 charity bike ride has a new name and, more important, a new route.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of huffing and puffing from San Antonio to the beach in Corpus, riders on the Bike MS: Valero 2009 Alamo Ride to the River&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"http:\/\/gregparham.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/23\/skinny-tires-just-dont-compare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skinny tires just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t compare\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00c2\u00ab The Official Blog of Greg the <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-author\">by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">aardvark102431<\/span><\/div>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s road racing, and right now, methinks road racing isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all that fun, so I will keep a focus on <strong>mountain biking<\/strong> until further notice. The next race is this weekend at St. Jo in north <strong>Texas<\/strong>, one of my favorite courses. <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Route Report: Access to Lance Armstrong Bikeway restored at north &#8230; by elliott Additional bicycle and pedestrian routes will be added in the area with the completion of Sand Beach Park in 2009 and the Pfluger Bridge Extension project in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/blogs-news-and-other-stuff-february-23rd\/\"><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-1947","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-vp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","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=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}