{"id":25099,"date":"2014-07-25T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=25099"},"modified":"2014-07-25T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T04:00:11","slug":"texas-bicycle-news-digest-july-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/texas-bicycle-news-digest-july-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycle News Digest July 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off-roader ruins city bike trail<\/a><\/h2>\n

by Claire Kowalick\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0www.timesrecordnews.com<\/h4>\n

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\nWICHITA FALLS, Texas – One man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s joyride has become a nightmare for Hotter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122N Hell Hundred bike ride organizers who maintain the Wee Chi Tah trail.
\nA man with long blond hair has been seen over the past two years riding a blue Enduro-style off-road motorcycle with no tags through the Wee Chi Tah and…<\/p>\n

New Bike Czar Ashley Haire On The Roadblocks To Making Dallas Bike-Friendly<\/a><\/h2>\n

By Krystina Martinez & Rick Holter\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0keranews.org<\/h4>\n

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\nNo doubt about it: North Texas is car country. The League of American Bicyclists ranked the 70 biggest U.S. cities in share of bike commuters, and four of the bottom 12 were in North Texas. Dallas came in at No. 65, and the city’s new bike czar. Ashley Haire, is determined to change that. She sits down with KERA’s vice president of news, Rick Holter, in this week’s Friday Conversation.
\nInterview Highlights: Ashley Haire\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6On the effectiveness of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsharrows\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in Dallas:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think they work in the right situations. Ideally, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re really only for roads that have speed limits of 35 miles or less, and when you get that speed differential between cars and bicycles, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when it can be really dangerous. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when we…<\/p>\n

The Bayou Greenways Plan: A Game-Changer for Houston?<\/a><\/h2>\n

by Angie Schmitt\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0streetsblog.org<\/h4>\n

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\nHouston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bayou Greenways plan is perhaps the largest active transportation project in the country right now \u00e2\u20ac\u201d if residents can actually use it for transportation when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s completed.
\nJen Powis of the Houston Parks Board has described the greenway project as a cross between the Atlanta Beltline and the Portland Bike Master Plan, which \u00e2\u20ac\u0153re-envisions transportation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the city. The project is undoubtedly ambitious, but it remains to be seen whether the city will create safe street-level walking and biking connections to the greenway network.
\nConstruction of the Bayou Greenways is already underway. Once complete, it will consist of a comprehensive network of greenways and walking and biking trails along the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s many natural bayous.
\nThe plan comes from a blueprint more than 100 years old. It was part of early city planner Arthur Comey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vision for the Houston park system back in 1912. And in…<\/p>\n

Bikepacking basics<\/a><\/h2>\n

by Karen Brooks\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0www.peopleforbikes.org<\/h4>\n

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\nIf you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at all interested in adventuring on two wheels, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve probably run across the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bikepacking.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This is exactly what it sounds like: a self-supported camping trip in a natural setting, but using a bike as transportation instead of walking. The big advantage over backpacking is that, just like on city streets, you can get farther and see more on two wheels than you can on two feet. Remote areas that would be all but inaccessible to a backpacker can be reached much more easily by bike. And even if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not up for a grand long-distance journey, you can still discover hidden gems during…<\/p>\n

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Biking With The Indian Ghosts Pondering No Good Deed Going Unpunished If Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder<\/a><\/h2>\n

Durango Texas<\/h4>\n

That’s the pool and hot tub view from my patio prison cell you are looking at on the left.
\nThat view is currently scheduled to change this coming October, with a new view north, rather than this old view south.
\nI was up not long after the sun this morning, with a long swim before a short breakfast.
\nAfter several hours of fussing with HTML code type aggravation I felt the…<\/p>\n