{"id":2247,"date":"2009-04-21T22:17:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T04:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2009-04-21T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T04:17:18","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for April 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/blog.kgsbikes.com\/2009\/04\/21\/when-buying-bicycles-think-global-not-local\/\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.kgsbikes.com\/2009\/04\/21\/when-buying-bicycles-think-global-not-local\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>When Buying Bicycles, Think Global, Not Local<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby kgsbikes<br \/>\nGlobal bicycle stores are the new way to go when shopping for the bicycle with the perfect fit, according to Kevin Saunders, custom bicycle creator and owner of KGS bicycles. &#8230; Anyone interested in learning more about KGS Bikes can visit Saunders\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 website http:\/\/blog.kgsbikes.com\/, or his store in San Antonio, Texas. He also travels to Austin, Dallas and Houston on a regular basis to perform bike fittings and consultations, and he works with triathlon teams and other &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.mtbracenews.com\/2009\/04\/writing-by-sean-sindt-and-sara-krause.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtbracenews.com\/2009\/04\/writing-by-sean-sindt-and-sara-krause.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MTB Race News<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby mtbracenews.com<br \/>\nThe next race will be the GHORBA Big Ring Challenge in ColdSpring, TX on May 3rd. Pro Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Results Stage 1: Short Track 1 Bryan Fawley Park Place Lexus 2 Scott Henry Team Hammerhead Bicycles 3 Greg Parham NRC Pedal Masher &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/shamacycles.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/racing-driveway-crit-on-kirklee.html\" href=\"http:\/\/shamacycles.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/racing-driveway-crit-on-kirklee.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Shama Cycles: Racing the Driveway Crit on the Kirklee<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Shama<br \/>\nWhere Fit, Function and Fashion drives the sale of each custom hand crafted bicycle that rolls out of my doors. I love bikes and love helping my clients enjoy their ride to the fullest! Enjoy and see ya on the road. &#8230; I did not sprint in this race, just hard accelerations&#8230;which it handled very well. Not to mention leading up to this race, being able to ride it on some VERY crappy Texas roads, this bike is smooth. Its stiff where it needs to be and smooth where you &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/331miles.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/i-am-elite-cyclist.html\" href=\"http:\/\/331miles.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/i-am-elite-cyclist.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>331 Miles: I am an Elite Cyclist<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby 331 Miles<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been living in deep south Texas (Mission, TX specifically) for almost 3 years, and during that time my cycling conditioning has drifted from intermediate down to beginner, back to intermediate, and most recently I think I&#8217;ve jumped to &#8220;elite&#8221;. &#8230; Independent of our petty, silly tactics, it was a hard, strenuous ride, even for an &#8220;elite&#8221; cyclist. And before I forget &#8212; a few minutes after we dropped the dude, a couple of the stronger time trialers in the group really &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/edgecitycycling.com\/?p=262\" href=\"http:\/\/edgecitycycling.com\/?p=262\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Edge City Cycling \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archiv \u00c2\u00bb Ride With The Eagles, Mt &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Kale<br \/>\nApril 25, 2009 &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ride with the Eagles\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bike Ride in Mt. Pleasant , Texas is scheduled for Saturday, April 25, 2009 beginning at 9am. Four fun, well-marked routes of 11, 22, 45, and 65 miles are available and all are complete with &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mags-mariesullivan.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/leap-of-faith.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mags-mariesullivan.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/leap-of-faith.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mags01: Leap of Faith<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Mags<br \/>\nMy husband was scheduled to ride the BP MS150 from Houston to Austin this past weekend (yes, that is a bicycle ride). Both his riding partners had to back out at the last minute for various reasons the week before. &#8230; Thunderstorms were headed across Texas Saturday. The MS website Thursday night stated RAIN OR SHINE. Friday night after we made our relay trek to Houston and we had carbed up, the website stated that the first leg from Houston to La Grange had been CANCELED &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Buying Bicycles, Think Global, Not Local by kgsbikes Global bicycle stores are the new way to go when shopping for the bicycle with the perfect fit, according to Kevin Saunders, custom bicycle creator and owner of KGS bicycles. &#8230; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-21st\/\"><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-2247","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-Af","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","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=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}