{"id":20781,"date":"2013-03-26T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=20781"},"modified":"2013-03-26T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T04:50:00","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-26th-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/26\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-26th-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waco OMNI Stage Race<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Mat Stephens\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0cyclingillustrated.com
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\nI woke up early Saturday morning to drive down with Michael Wert from GS Tenzing for the weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s racing down in Waco.<\/p>\n

Saturday:
\nEARLY wake up. I stayed at my mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house to make it easier to meet up with Michael in the morning and so had a great breakfast and coffee before the drive. Thanks, Mom! We got there and went through the whole hassle with all the TT gear that was allowed\u00e2\u20ac\u201cskinsuit that I needed help getting into, shoe covers, trainer warm-up, pulling out all the stops to get those fractions of a…<\/p>\n

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Thinking of a Bike Tour Vacation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nRGV Cycling
\nI was chowing down some food with a friend of mine and she brought up an interesting topic, bike touring. You know, one of those three to four-day trip on bike where everything is planned for you.\u00c2\u00a0 The route, food, lodging and support are all provided and all you have to do is show up and pedal. We talked about it further and who could go with us and as a result, I have a hankering for a guided road bike tour somewhere in the US of A.<\/p>\n

A bike tour is something that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always wanted to do since I was a kid. I rarely take a vacation and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m due for one. My buddy asked me to go with her and drag her…<\/p>\n

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METRO Bike & Ride Public Meeting<\/strong><\/span>
\nAttention Bicyclists and Transit Users
\nThe Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) is working with METRO on the METRO Bike and Ride Sub-Regional Planning Study, an effort to better connect bike and transit trips. Please join us on April 4th to provide your input.<\/p>\n

Thursday April 4, 2013
\n6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
\nH-GAC Conference Room A
\n3555 Timmons Lane
\nHouston, TX 77027
\nBike: Bicycle parking is available on the first floor Visitor Area of the parking garage.
\nBus: Bus routes to the H-GAC office include the 25, 53, 73 and 78.
\nCar: The parking garage will be open and free to the public for all visitors.<\/p>\n

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Update to Deep Ellum Hit and Run<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Eliot Landrum\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Biking in Dallas
\nEarlier this month, Melanie Jarrett and Sean Clancy were hit by a red-light running motorist while they were cycling in Deep Ellum. The original story was covered by Robert Wilonsky on the Dallas Morning News Crime Blog: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cycling advocates out for a ride are victims of hit and run near Deep Ellum after truck runs red light\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

After the story was published, many of us in the cycling community were concerned that this would become \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yet another\u00e2\u20ac\u009d crash that simply ignored and left behind. Personally, I believe that strict Enforcement of the laws that we have right now (such as not running red lights) would go a…<\/p>\n

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Bicyclists use of Toll 49 restricted, but not denied<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nBy Melanie Torre
\nPosted by Stephanie Frazier\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0www.kltv.com
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