{"id":2493,"date":"2009-06-19T23:18:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T05:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2009-06-19T23:18:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T05:18:35","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/19\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for June 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/48643987.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/48643987.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Perry&#8217;s veto of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153safe passing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bill angers cyclists<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby San Antonio Express &#8211; San Antonio,TX,USA<br \/>\n&#8230; feel disappointed, even betrayed by our guy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Robin Stallings, executive director of BikeTexas, the educational arm of the Texas Bicycle Coalition. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2009\/06\/19\/06192009wacbrieflyweb.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2009\/06\/19\/06192009wacbrieflyweb.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Waco news briefs for Fri., June 19<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Waco Tribune Herald &#8211; Waco,TX,USA<br \/>\nHillcrest Baptist Medical Center, the Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas Medical Association are sponsoring a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gear Up for Safety\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bicycle &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/cycledallas.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/increased-bike-funding-effects.html\" href=\"http:\/\/cycledallas.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/increased-bike-funding-effects.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>C y c l e * D a l l a s: Increased Bike Funding Effects<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Steve A<br \/>\nNorth Texas Vehicular Cyclist has a good view of comparative danger (measured in fatalities) around Texas and Portland. If you look at a more global level, I can&#8217;t see a lot of leverage gained by spending ever increasing amounts on &#8230;. When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.volunteermatch.org\/search\/opp481893.jsp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.volunteermatch.org\/search\/opp481893.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Help Children with Disabilities Learn to Ride Bikes!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby volunteermatch.com<br \/>\nThe Down Syndrome Association of Central Texas is seeking volunteers to assist at our Lose the Training Wheels camp for children with disabilities. This camp teaches the skills needed to ride a bicycle without training wheels. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.theeagle.com\/local\/Prof-still-in-critical-condition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theeagle.com\/local\/Prof-still-in-critical-condition\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Prof still in critical condition | Bryan\/College Station, Texas &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby theeagle.com<br \/>\nI ride my bike in this town too, and most drivers are pretty bike-friendly. But like all communities, there are a few jerks who make it miserable for the rest of us. Was this a case of a car failing to yield or a driver fiddling with &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/06\/19\/friday-film-fun-fixed-gear-tricks-are-old-school-like-penny-farthing-old-school\/\" href=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/06\/19\/friday-film-fun-fixed-gear-tricks-are-old-school-like-penny-farthing-old-school\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Friday Film Fun: Fixed gear tricks are old school, like penny &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby elliott<br \/>\nIn the cycling blogosphere, fixed gear is its own vibrant sub-culture that has really taken to the technology to share in the passion. It&#8217;s not really my scene, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perry&#8217;s veto of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153safe passing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bill angers cyclists by San Antonio Express &#8211; San Antonio,TX,USA &#8230; feel disappointed, even betrayed by our guy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Robin Stallings, executive director of BikeTexas, the educational arm of the Texas Bicycle Coalition. &#8230; Waco <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/19\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-19th\/\"><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-2493","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-Ed","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","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=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}