{"id":2219,"date":"2009-04-17T23:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2009-04-18T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T15:04:14","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/17\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for April 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roads to close Sunday for MS 150 Bicycle Race – Community Impact …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby ms 150 houston – Google News
\nRoads to close Sunday for MS 150 Bicycle RaceCommunity Impact Newspaper, TXThe homestretch of the MS 150 bicycle route between Houston and Austin will finish on the north side of the Texas Capital on Sunday, April 19, resulting in road …<\/p>\n

Cycling advocates press developers for more bike infrastructure<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Austin 360 – Austin,TX,USA
\nIt’s working with the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas to test sharrows and other markings not yet formally accepted in …<\/p>\n

Dallas Bike Rodeo and Child Safety Day at Texas Scottish Rite …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby PRLog.Org (press release) – TX,USA
\nEach participant will receive a free bike helmet and have their name entered into a drawing to win a free bicycle. Lunch will be provided for children and …<\/p>\n

www.biketexas.org – Additional 2009 Bills of Interest<\/strong><\/a>
\nby www.biketexas.org
\nTexas Bicycle Coalition. … This bill relates to the definition of electric bicycle for purposes of regulating the use, registration, and licensing of electric bicycles, and is authored by Representative Ellen Cohen (D-Houston). …<\/p>\n

Industry employees raise funds for MS<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Brazosport Facts – Clute,TX,USA
\nConocoPhillips’ 400-member team mostly is made of corporate office people, but Sweeny refinery operator Paul Richard and his 30-year-old bicycle plan to …<\/p>\n

Cross-country cyclists visit Marshall<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Marshall News Messenger – Marshall,TX,USA
\nBy Terri Hahn, News Messenger Traveling the country by bicycle is like a “mobile retreat” for the 22 members of the 2009 Spring Wandering Wheels group. …<\/p>\n

thy neighbor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bike \u00c2\u00bb MS BUST.<\/strong><\/a>
\nby liebo
\nIn all honesty I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really been training for the 170 mile ride from Houston to Austin and haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even been paying much attention to any of the details, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like I had a lot invested in this race, but regardless it was still … And cmon, this was a race where people were coming in from not just all over Texas but all over the country as well. How many people do you think didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even get the email? MS150 has all of our numbers, figure out a program to mass …<\/p>\n

UrbanGrounds \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Day 1 of 2009 BP MS 150 Cancelled …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Robbie Cooper
\nI guess it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s better to be safe than sorry, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unfortunate that this will be the first cancellation of any part of the ride in 25 years. The irony is that we are under severe drought conditions here in Texas, and have had very …<\/p>\n

Inside the Bay Area: A weekend of riding: This blogger does the MS 150<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Diana North
\nBut I’ll be doing this ride with lots of other Bay Area residents who signed up for this year’s MS 150 during the seven hours it took to fill every one of the 13000 slots available. And the money I raise goes to fight Multiple … I’ve avoided Texas-sized charity rides because my personality changes as soon as I clip into my Speedplay pedals. Normally an approachable mixture of friendly and curious, I become aloof and self-absorbed on my road bike. On my hybrid bike, …<\/p>\n

Time for the MS 150 \u00c2\u00ab Bike Noob<\/strong><\/a>
\nby rainycamp
\nWe have to pack our bags and tote them over to the headquarters hotel, where they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be put in a team truck for delivery to our halfway stop in LaGrange, Texas. A shuttle bus will run us across I-10 to Tully Stadium, where the ride …<\/p>\n

Friday Film Fun: The Bicyclists | Austin On Two Wheels<\/strong><\/a>
\nby elliott
\nSo I’m not sure how I’ve been doing this online cycling coverage for so long and never heard of The Bicyclists until last week. It is an online TV series. … Texas Cycling Blogs (Outside of Austin). Bicycle Commute Houston \u00c2\u00b7 Bike Friendly Oak Cliff \u00c2\u00b7 TexBiker.net …<\/p>\n

Any mountain bike clinics in Texas? | Cheap Mountain Bikes, Used …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby admin
\nCeci G asked: I’ve recently taken up mountain biking, but I would really like to have some proper skills training in order to avoid injury and\/or embarrassment. …<\/p>\n

mtb law girl: Cyclist fatalities within the last week..<\/strong><\/a>
\nby mtblawgirl
\nThis week has been a very upsetting one for Texas cyclists with the death of Houston cyclist, Leigh Boone, the accident involving local cyclist, Anthony Kaim, and the struggles with the Safe Passing Bill in the House. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roads to close Sunday for MS 150 Bicycle Race – Community Impact … by ms 150 houston – Google News Roads to close Sunday for MS 150 Bicycle RaceCommunity Impact Newspaper, TXThe homestretch of the MS 150 bicycle route between …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-2219","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-zN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","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=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}