{"id":2363,"date":"2009-05-18T22:13:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2009-05-18T22:13:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:13:03","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for May 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cyclelicio.us\/2009\/05\/about-that-texas-bike-safety-law.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclelicio.us\/2009\/05\/about-that-texas-bike-safety-law.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>About that Texas Bike Safety Law &#8211; Cyclelicious<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby (Yokota Fritz)<br \/>\nAfter college, I used to bike commute 20 miles from Forth Worth to Irving, Texas. In the Texas heat there is absolutely no way you can do a &#8216;stylish&#8217; commute in your work clothes, even if you ride slowly for short distances. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonbikelawyer.com\/ride-of-silence-this-wednesday\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonbikelawyer.com\/ride-of-silence-this-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tucson Bike Lawyer \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Ride of Silence this Wednesday<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Erik<br \/>\nThe annual ride began in 2003 when Chris Phelan organized the first Ride of Silence in Dallas, Texas after endurance cyclist Larry Schwartz was hit by the mirror of a passing bus on an empty road and was killed. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thatisright.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/old-bicycle-logos.html\" href=\"http:\/\/thatisright.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/old-bicycle-logos.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>That&#8217;s Right: Vintage Bicycle Logos<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby HMK<br \/>\nBorn in the U.K., educated in Boston and currently living the good life in beautiful San Antonio, Texas. But enough about me. Check out my work and the blogs and you&#8217;ll get a pretty good idea about what gets me out of bed in the morning &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mpinky96.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/11-traits-of-champion-from-hot-tubes.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mpinky96.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/11-traits-of-champion-from-hot-tubes.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michael Pincus&#8217;s Cycling blog: 11 traits of the champion. from hot &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Michael Pincus<br \/>\nMichael Pincus: Pearland, Texas, United States: Hello, My name is michael and I&#8217;m a freshmen at Glenda Dawson High-school in Pearland Texas. I&#8217;m 15 years of age and love to race\/ ride my bicycle. I&#8217;m a CAT 3 racer on both the road and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.lufkindailynews.com\/hp\/content\/news\/stories\/2009\/05\/19\/PUSH_America.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lufkindailynews.com\/hp\/content\/news\/stories\/2009\/05\/19\/PUSH_America.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Peddling for his passion: Lufkin grad to ride bike cross country &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Lufkin Daily News &#8211; Lufkin,TX,USA<br \/>\nGoodier carried his passion to college at Texas Christian University (TCU), pledging Pi Kappa Phi (PiKap), the founding fraternity of PUSH America and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.familybadge.org\/(S(3zhxhdnxmdryvi55wdbkzo55))\/default.aspx?act=Newsletter.aspx&amp;category=News+1-2&amp;newsletterid=12867&amp;menugroup=Home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.familybadge.org\/(S(3zhxhdnxmdryvi55wdbkzo55))\/default.aspx?act=Newsletter.aspx&amp;category=News+1-2&amp;newsletterid=12867&amp;menugroup=Home\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2009 Texas Police Games to be held in Conroe<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Family Badge &#8211; USA<br \/>\nBy Jamie Nash Precinct 2 Constable Gene DeForest is proud to announce the Texas Police Athletic Federation&#8217;s 2009 Texas Police Games will be held in Conroe &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/index\/1hun5785722551jm.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/index\/1hun5785722551jm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>An analysis of bicycle route choice preferences in Texas, US<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby springerlink.com<br \/>\nDepartment of Civil, Architectural &amp; Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, C1761, Austin, TX 78712-0278, USA<br \/>\nAbstract\u00c2\u00a0 In the US, the rise in motorized vehicle travel has contributed to serious societal, environmental, economic, and public health problems. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.montgomerycountynews.net\/index.php?module=article&amp;view=489\" href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomerycountynews.net\/index.php?module=article&amp;view=489\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Thousands of cops to converge on Conroe<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Montgomery County Newspaper &#8211; Montgomery,TX,USA<br \/>\nPrecinct 2 Constable Gene DeForest is proud to announce the Texas Police Athletic &#8230; Pistols Tactical, Pistols, Paintball, Mountain Bike, K-9 Narcotics, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About that Texas Bike Safety Law &#8211; Cyclelicious by (Yokota Fritz) After college, I used to bike commute 20 miles from Forth Worth to Irving, Texas. In the Texas heat there is absolutely no way you can do a &#8216;stylish&#8217; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-18th\/\"><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-2363","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-C7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","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=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}