{"id":20218,"date":"2013-02-07T22:43:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=20218"},"modified":"2013-02-07T22:43:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:43:27","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-february-7th-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-february-7th-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for February 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"

SM Wright a Complete Street?<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nBike Friendly Oak Cliff
\nCities around the country are moving to reduce the impact of highways and large arterial on local economic development and quality of life. They are doing it by replacing the dinosaurs of the transportation world (grade seperated highways) with at-grade multi-lane boulevards. Boulevards move high traffic volumes while creating a generous pedestrian realm and living environment by separating through traffic from local access lanes. …<\/p>\n

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Bicycle chase leads to arrest<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nJoe Trantham was chased by a DFC Cycle employee
\nBy JENNIFER LOESCH\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0AVALANCHE-JOURNAL lubbockonline.com
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\nA Lubbock man learned a valuable lesson Thursday: don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t steal from DFC Cycles and Fitness on Indiana Ave.<\/p>\n

Alleged thief Joe David Trantham, 25, learned the hard way when Lubbock police arrested him with the help of a store employee on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

DFC Cycle employee Charles Cook, 20, said he and another decided to keep an eye on Trantham after he reportedly displayed strange…<\/p>\n

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Yeah Man! Northshore 6hr Race Recap, Single Speed Style<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nwww.bigpigracing.org
\nFirst, I loved that Chaos (Race Director) didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make the SSrs do the road at the start and let us jump right in to the trail. Really helped me get into a rhythm quicker. That being said, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure what gear to run and I picked 32\u00c3\u201420, which I discovered during the race that I should have run a 19 to get more speed in the straights. Conditions were amazing! The weather and the trail were damn near perfect! I made a last minute decision to not wear any arm\/leg warmers and was glad I did\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it warmed up real quick!<\/p>\n

Based on feed back from my teammates, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t kill it on the start, just started out at a pace just a bit slower than XC. I think I hit the trail about 5th or 6th place? I had mixed up severals bottles of Skratch labs and also water. I decided to try for 2 laps before swapping bottles and I think I did that for the first 4 laps. Just liquids on lap 1. I took shot bloks (one one package of 6 the entire race, laps 2-4) and I did one hammer gel shot (Lap 6?) and also stopped and…<\/p>\n

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Plano Bicycle Association Rides<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nSaturday B Squared Ride
\nSaturday DB1
\nSaturday DB2
\nSaturday OAS Lite
\nSaturday Step-up Ride
\nStarbucks First Sunday Caffeine Cruise
\nWednesday Night Dinner Ride
\nSaturday DB Lite
\nSaturday Distance Builder Recreation Ride
\nSaturday Eastside Ride
\nSunday Bikes N Bagels
\nSunday Tempo Ride
\nSat\/Sun OAS Ride<\/p>\n

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Tweets<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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SOS today 26 miles,85 degrees F. in spots without wind it was hot today,10:00 it's 70 degrees in Texas.<\/p>\n

— jerald roll (@grandpajerald) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n