{"id":3449,"date":"2009-12-30T23:23:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T05:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2009-12-30T23:23:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T05:23:38","slug":"daily-news-roundup-december-30th-texas-bicycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/30\/daily-news-roundup-december-30th-texas-bicycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup December 30th – Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Mountain Bike 2009 Season<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom www.youtube.com
\n03:29
\nMost of the races from the West Texas Mountain Bike Championship Series 2009
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Dec 28, 2009 bike ride<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom www.youtube.com
\n03:12
\nReflecting on my trip to Texas to spend Christmas with my family… … bicycle ..<\/p>\n

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Texas Hell Week and Other Assorted Death Rides: Dear God, what a …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Keith
\nWithin my mileage there was only one mountain bike race, the CAORC, which was fun but slow, very slow. There were a few mountain bike rides and some road rides and of course a very painful Texas Hell Week with the messed up back. …<\/p>\n

From The Senator’s Desk. . . | Senator Eliot Shapleigh – Texas …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Senator Eliot Shapleigh
\nHere in God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Country, where the northern tip of the Sierra Madres meets the very end of the Rockies, square in the heart of the Chihuahua desert, where Ocotillos and Texas Rainbows mark the trails up the Franklin Mountain State Park, the light is special, and life is good. Here is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153frontier of the future\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 where North meets Southwest, where the culture, the people and the beautiful spaces are unlike any in all the rest of Texas. …<\/p>\n

At 95, Brother Steffes looks to retirement from St. Edward’s<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Austin American-Statesman
\nBy Ricardo G\u00c3\u00a1ndara
\nIt’s the semester break at St. Edward’s University, and most of the students and faculty are gone. But in the school’s old gymnasium, in a former coach’s office, the oldest instructor on campus is still working.<\/p>\n

At 95, Holy Cross brother Donard Steffes teaches beginning swimming, rides his bike along Lady Bird Lake and yaks it up on ham radio with friends around the world. But at the moment, he’s in the office he calls “really, my home,” preparing…<\/p>\n

Ten biggest stories of 2009 in Austin cycling | Austin On Two Wheels<\/strong><\/a>
\nby elliott
\nAustin will be the 2010 location for the Texas Custom Bicycle Show and is on a short list of cities in consideration for a possible future stop of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. Group Picture of the frame builders and …<\/p>\n

Helping to get more folks at National Bike Summit | Road Rash<\/strong><\/a>
\nBy Jason Whaley | Monday, December 28, 2009, 11:15 PM
\nThe NBDA, National Bicycle Dealers Association, will grant up to $30,000 in scholarships to first-time and returning bike dealers who participate at the 2010 National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. March 9-11. The program is designed to support the cause of cycling in America by making it affordable for NBDA dealers to participate. Applications must be in by January 18th. …<\/p>\n

The Training Effect: 1) My brief training camp @ 4000 ft 2) Base …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Cliff
\nI wanted 5 good rides on the Texas\/New Mexico frontier. I got 4 rides total, two were good.<\/p>\n

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\nThe snowed forced the arrival to Monday (instead of Saturday), then I brought the wrong drop-out with me to put on the training bike. I had to get a shop in Midland, TX (Peyton’s Bikes) to overnight the correct one from Dallas (I was relieved that they could get it!). Had to drive over 3 hours round trip back the next day to pick up the correct drop. That was Tuesday and it was getting dark by the time I drove back…<\/p>\n

An 1800-Mile Plus Bike Ride<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Marisa Demarco
\nLee and Antigone. Everyone told Marshall Wayne Lee that Texas would be flat. “It is NOT flat,” he says. Lee should know. He just rode his bicycle through there with a basset hound named Antigone strapped into a child’s trailer. …<\/p>\n

2010 DORBA Frozen Endurance Series – BiKe MoJo SpeaK<\/strong><\/a>
\nDallas mountain bike racing continues this winter with the world renowned DORBA Endurance Series. The running of the DORBA Endurance Series presented by the Dallas Off-Road Bicycling Association (DORBA) will have a record number of riders again this year. 250 amateur and professional riders from across Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas will be headed to Dallas for the biggest endurance series in the region. The 4 and 6 hour races are slated for the Saturdays of January 9th, February 13th, and March 6th, 2010. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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