{"id":2544,"date":"2009-06-25T23:05:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T05:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2009-06-25T23:05:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T05:05:39","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for June 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch%3Fv%3Dq63LO60u8yM&amp;source=video&amp;vgc=rss&amp;usg=AFQjCNG94-onRcUeP5PITS2nxC5AXWJAWQ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch%3Fv%3Dq63LO60u8yM&amp;source=video&amp;vgc=rss&amp;usg=AFQjCNG94-onRcUeP5PITS2nxC5AXWJAWQ\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Regional bicycle plan, Lisa Drive El Paso, TX<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nvideo<br \/>\n00:46<br \/>\nThe El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization is preparing a regional bicycle plan. The bike lanes may be planned on the outside shoulders of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.theind.com\/content\/view\/4598\/1164\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theind.com\/content\/view\/4598\/1164\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Community rallies around injured prof<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby The INDsider &#8211; Lafayette,LA,USA<br \/>\n&#8230; from injuries he sustained when his bicycle was struck by a car. Tanner was in College Station teaching a summer course at Texas A&amp;M University. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/06\/25\/austin-bike-culture-calendar-events-625-7109\/\" href=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/06\/25\/austin-bike-culture-calendar-events-625-7109\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 6\/25- 7\/1\/09 | Austin On Two &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby elliott<br \/>\n5 PM, West Mall, University of Texas Campus This bike jamming ride is designed to shout to the world that bikes belongs and occurs on the last Friday of the month. You never know what will happen, but don&#8217;t miss this foundation of the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.lakecountrysun.com\/news\/get-news.asp?id=7773&amp;catid=1&amp;cpg=get-news.asp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lakecountrysun.com\/news\/get-news.asp?id=7773&amp;catid=1&amp;cpg=get-news.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TFT announces &#8216;A Ride Through History&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Lake Country Sun &#8211; Graford,TX,USA<br \/>\nThe Texas Forts Tour is a family-friendly three-day bicycle ride scheduled for Columbus Day Weekend beginning and ending in Jacksboro. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/unholyrouleur-jim.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/update-impressions-mellow-johnnys-bike.html\" href=\"http:\/\/unholyrouleur-jim.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/update-impressions-mellow-johnnys-bike.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Unholy Rouleur: Update &amp; Impressions, Mellow Johnny&#8217;s Bike Shop<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Jim<br \/>\nAnd no, Texas is not a person and &#8220;on business&#8221; is not a euphemism for immoral or illegal activity. I stopped by Mellow Johnny&#8217;s bike shop today. Pheweeeee, what a sweet bike shop. Love or hate Lance, call him a cancer or yearn to wear a yellow &#8230; I *yearned* to ride it. Not many bikes make me feel that way but I got a crush on that frickin&#8217; Dolomitti. It was pleasing to look at, and its triple butted steel tubing felt like scandium when tapped. Bet it rides nice, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.screweduptexan.com\/2009\/06\/i-came-back.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.screweduptexan.com\/2009\/06\/i-came-back.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fresh Confessions of a Screwed Up Texan: I Came Back<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Screwed Up Texan<br \/>\nThen one day I decided to take my bicycle for a ride down an extremely steep and narrow sidewalk. This particular stretch of sidewalk is so steep that it requires breaking at the halfway point to a slow pace and then allowing oneself to &#8230;. She is an avid outdoorswoman and is heavily involved in her community. Allie just published her first book which can be found at Blurb, Screwed Up: My Life. Allie and her husband and their three boys work and reside in North Texas. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikingtolive.com\/had-a-good-hard-ride-last-night\/\" href=\"http:\/\/bikingtolive.com\/had-a-good-hard-ride-last-night\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>23 Miles Cycling Around White Rock Lake | Biking To Live<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Bryan<br \/>\nOnce I hit that twelve week point I&#8217;ll be following a training plan but until them I&#8217;m just trying to build base mileage, work on the hills and get acclimatized to the heat here in Texas. &#8230; I&#8217;ve also delayed my evening ride by about a half-hour so I&#8217;m starting around 6:30 PM and religiously doing a slow six mile warm up. This combination seems to be working for me right now as I&#8217;ve had no episodes like last week when I was obliterated after 15 miles. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional bicycle plan, Lisa Drive El Paso, TX video 00:46 The El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization is preparing a regional bicycle plan. The bike lanes may be planned on the outside shoulders of &#8230; Community rallies around injured prof by <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-25th\/\"><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-2544","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-F2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","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=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}