{"id":3080,"date":"2009-10-18T22:51:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2009-10-18T22:53:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:53:57","slug":"daily-texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-october-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/18\/daily-texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-october-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for October 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FwYcJQ12fuU\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FwYcJQ12fuU\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Goliad Bike Ride 101709<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom www.youtube.com<br \/>\n00:29<br \/>\nA short clip of a nice bicycle ride out in the Goliad County countryside on a beautiful Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FwYcJQ12fuU\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.taylordailypress.net\/articles\/2009\/10\/17\/news\/news04.txt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taylordailypress.net\/articles\/2009\/10\/17\/news\/news04.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cyclists ride for poverty awareness<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Taylor Daily Press<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.townnews.com\/taylordailypress.net\/content\/articles\/2009\/10\/17\/news\/news04.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Cyclists Ride for Poverty\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\nBrake the Cycle Texas, a poverty awareness group from Austin, passed through Taylor and Hutto Saturday to spread the word about the need for action against poverty, a serious issue in Central Texas, according to the group. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.dallasobserver.com\/unfairpark\/2009\/10\/and_for_those_of_you_who_dont.php\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dallasobserver.com\/unfairpark\/2009\/10\/and_for_those_of_you_who_dont.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>For Those Who Don&#8217;t Like Bike-Only Lanes &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Dallas Observer<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.dallasobserver.com\/unfairpark\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/bikeshirt-thumb-225x259.jpg?resize=224%2C259\" alt=\"Use Full Lane Shirt\" width=\"224\" height=\"259\" \/><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s it at right &#8212; &#8220;just in time for Xmas 2009,&#8221; he notes on his blog today, though they are by special-order only. Summer, who was Dallas&#8217;s bike coordinator, is among those who don&#8217;t think Dallas needs cyclist-only lanes &#8212; hence, perhaps, his being the former bike coordinator for the city. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bikecrave.com\/following-through\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bikecrave.com\/following-through\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Following through<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby jeffbean<br \/>\nNext week I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m scheduled to be in Austin, Texas. Can\u00e2\u20ac\u009dt wait. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been 5 long years since I did the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ride for the Roses\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with my wife and best friend Therese. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a cancer survivor (thyroid), adventure-seeker and doer of things memorable. She first encouraged me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/utcycling.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/living-in-comfort.html\" href=\"http:\/\/utcycling.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/living-in-comfort.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>University of Texas Cycling Team Blog Living in Comfort<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThis last weekend of September saw the team take a wonderfully enlivening trip into the wilds of Comfort, TX (nestled snugly in the Hill Country between Fredericksburg and San Antonio, just off of I-10) for the SCCCC mountain bike race hosted by our cycling club, held at the delightful Flat Rock Ranch.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_4pc3YVcqZAY\/Ssr5hwYwtYI\/AAAAAAAAAJU\/gQjJNMmVH_8\/s400\/IMG_0090.JPG?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"UT Cycling Team Member\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nWhen they call it a ranch, they&#8217;re not just borrowing the title&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goliad Bike Ride 101709 from www.youtube.com 00:29 A short clip of a nice bicycle ride out in the Goliad County countryside on a beautiful Saturday morning. Cyclists ride for poverty awareness by Taylor Daily Press Brake the Cycle Texas, a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/18\/daily-texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-october-18th\/\"><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":[449,1056,660,1055,1057],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-lanes","tag-brake-the-cycle-texas","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-goliad-bike-ride","tag-scccc-mountain-bike-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-NG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080","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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}