{"id":2368,"date":"2009-05-20T22:34:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T04:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2009-05-20T22:34:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T04:34:44","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/20\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for May 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the Ride of Silence. There was no ride near me but I did take time to think of the riders who have lost their lives while biking.<\/p>\n

A “Silent” Bike Ride That Wasn’t Quiet<\/strong><\/a>
\nby WITN – USA
\nThe annual event started in Texas in 2003 and now spans to all 50 states including 18 countries worldwide. The silent tribute ride honors fellow cyclists …<\/p>\n

Ride Your Bike, Get a Discount.. \u00c2\u00ab Bike Friendly Oak Cliff<\/strong><\/a>
\nby photopolus
\nAfter cyclists were given discounts on tickets for the Hunchback of Notre Dame movie at the Texas Theater last month, we decided that it may be smart to ask more area merchants if they would be willing to offer more specials to …<\/p>\n

Proposed safe passing law making headway<\/strong><\/a>
\nby KVUE – Austin,TX,USA
\n… Bike Texas member Larry Schwartz died while riding alongside a bus. “The mirror hit him and killed him. He had 20 thousand miles a year on his bicycle. …<\/p>\n

Cyclists ride to honor fallen cyclists<\/strong><\/a>
\nby San Antonio Express – San Antonio,TX,USA
\nLongoria went on to say that 200 cyclists had been killed or seriously injured in traffic accidents in Texas since 2004. Two cyclists were killed in San …<\/p>\n

Cyclists ride to honor fallen cyclists<\/strong><\/a>
\nby www.mysanantonio.com
\nBut with her brother by her side, she and nearly 100 other cyclist gathered at HemisFair Park on Wednesday evening to participate in the Ride of Silence, an event that pays tribute to fallen cyclists and promotes bicycle awareness. … Longoria went on to say that 200 cyclists had been killed or seriously injured in traffic accidents in Texas since 2004. Two cyclists were killed in San Antonio last year and one cyclist died this year in February. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was the Ride of Silence. There was no ride near me but I did take time to think of the riders who have lost their lives while biking. A “Silent” Bike Ride That Wasn’t Quiet by WITN – USA …<\/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-2368","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-Cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","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=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}