{"id":3162,"date":"2009-11-09T22:38:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T04:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2009-11-09T22:38:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T04:38:02","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-november-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-november-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for November 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><em><strong>It&#8217;s a shame the team is based in California and there are no Texas riders, just Texas money. It figures with the financial straits California is in.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.velonews.com\/article\/99944\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velonews.com\/article\/99944\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Austin investment firm bankrolls team<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom The Journal of Competitive Cycling &#8211; by maddog<br \/>\nAdageo Energy will headline a new U.S.-registered, UCI Continental Professional team that has its roots in a Southern California cycling club. The Adageo Energy Pro Cycling Team aims to build on the foundation of its grassroots programs, the Southern California-based Liquid Fitness-Adageo Energy Elite Team and the 400-member Liquid Cycling Club, says team director Josh Horowitz. Adageo Energy, based in Austin, Texas, is an investment firm that capitalizes on high-growth, high-return &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.pegasusnews.com\/news\/2009\/nov\/09\/frisco-cycling-club-calls-legislation-protect-cycl\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pegasusnews.com\/news\/2009\/nov\/09\/frisco-cycling-club-calls-legislation-protect-cycl\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Frisco Cycling Club calls for legislation to protect cyclists<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Pegasus News<br \/>\nIn June 2009, SB 488, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Safe Passing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bill that would have created a safe zone of three feet around vulnerable road users (including pedestrians, runners, motorcyclists, cyclists, workers and more), was passed in the state of Texas. Similar laws have been passed in many other states, including Arizona, Utah, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153However, the Frisco Cycling Club received an alert concerning the bill on the day that it was to have been signed into law&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/gtdirtcoalitiontx.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/rocky-hill-round-up-xc-race.html\" href=\"http:\/\/gtdirtcoalitiontx.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/rocky-hill-round-up-xc-race.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GT Dirt Coalition Texas Rocky Hill Roundup XC Race<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJim Thomas<br \/>\nSaturday-Sunday, November 7-8, 2009<br \/>\nSmithville, TX<br \/>\nShowed up around 9am to setup the GT Dirt Coalition tent and team area and get in a pre-ride at ten with some friends. Just as we were finishing up prepping to ride, Jason Sager and his team-mate Adam Snyder rolled up in their Dodge Sprinter full of Edge Composites mountain rims. Very nice carbon MTB wheels!! They setup right next to us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a shame the team is based in California and there are no Texas riders, just Texas money. It figures with the financial straits California is in. Austin investment firm bankrolls team from The Journal of Competitive Cycling &#8211; by <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-november-9th\/\"><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":[1104,660,1105,485],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-adageo-energy","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-frisco-cycling-club","tag-rocky-hill-roundup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-P0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","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=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}