{"id":25299,"date":"2014-08-16T23:04:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T04:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=25299"},"modified":"2014-08-16T23:04:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T04:04:38","slug":"texas-cycling-news-digest-august-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/16\/texas-cycling-news-digest-august-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Cycling News Digest August 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, Betty! You’re beautiful!<\/a><\/h2>\n

By Pam LeBlanc\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0www.austin360.com<\/h4>\n

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\nAh, the thrill of a vintage bike.
\nMy husband Chris and I discovered this beauty – we’ll call her Betty – wearing a blanket of dust and leaning forlornly in the corner of my mom’s garage in South Haven, Mich., last week.
\nA woman in her late ’80s had bequeathed it to my aunt in Detroit, who at some point stashed it in my mom’s garage, where it languished, with flattened tires and a broken spirit, for several years. When we found Betty, she seemed sad and…<\/p>\n

This is YOUR Fort Worth<\/a><\/h2>\n

by Bike Friendly Fort Worth<\/h4>\n

Over the summer, some of us at Bike Friendly Fort Worth have traveled the country, and the world. We have had the opportunity to see, and experience, first hand how powerful advocacy can be and how people who rally together for a common cause can influence change.
\nWe had this happen first hand in Fort Worth with the 2014 Bond Package. Fort Worth went from having zero dollars in the Bond package specifically allocated to bike infrastructure to having $1.26 million specifically allocated because we, as cyclist, spoke up as a…<\/p>\n