{"id":3609,"date":"2010-01-16T00:37:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T06:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2010-01-16T00:37:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T06:37:10","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-january-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/16\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-january-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for January 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"

C02 bicycle tire inflators are recalled<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Leaf-Chronicle \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 January 8, 2010
\nThe following product recalls come from various federal and state agencies and were supplied to The Leaf-Chronicle by recalls.org:<\/p>\n

Todson Inc. is recalling CO2 bicycle tire inflators sold exclusively at Walmart stores nationwide from August to November 2009.<\/p>\n

The pressurized cartridge containing carbon dioxide can forcefully separate from the pump head, posing a risk of injury. …<\/p>\n

Bike Pathology<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Ian Dille
\nDallas, with its knot of highways, sprawling suburbs, and fast urban streets, is not an easy place to bicycle. In 2008, Bicycling magazine declared it the worst city for cyclists in the country. Ironically, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no shortage of people who love to bike. In the mid-\u00e2\u20ac\u212290s, my dad served as the club president of the Greater Dallas Bicyclists. Nearly every weekend, my family joined thousand of cyclists at charity rides, held on quaint country roads surrounding the city. I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t too into the scenery then. I mostly went for the free cookies. …<\/p>\n

Cyclocross: Downed trees, dirt tracks and grueling hills keep cyclists warm …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby CultureMap
\nOver and over, cyclists cascaded down the drop, their skinny bodies shaking violently as they slowed for a 90-degree turn around a small tree that whacked almost every one of them in the face on the way past.<\/p>\n

A searing blue sky belied temperatures in the 30s last weekend as the riders huffed onward through a tight coil of hairpin turns and muddy track, climbing and dropping again around a course at times too steep to pedal, and in places too log-strewn to ride.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the hardest thing I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done on a bike,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Dwight Waters after competing in his first cyclocross event at the Terra X race in the Woodlands\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Terramont Park. …<\/p>\n

Houston H-GAC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mitteco to Talk on Future of Bicycling<\/strong><\/a> in Region at BikeHouston Annual Meeting January 26
\nH-GAC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mitteco to Talk on Future of Bicycling in Region at BikeHouston Annual Meeting January 26
\nGina Mitteco, pedestrian-bicyclist coordinator of the Houston-Galveston Area Council, will talk on the future of bicycling in the region Tuesday, January 26, 2010, at the Annual Meeting of BikeHouston, Houston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s organization that advocates making the city safe and accessible for cyclists.
\nThe meeting will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m. followed by…<\/p>\n

YMCA to Host Spin-a-Thon<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Woodlands Online, LLC
\nTHE WOODLANDS, Texas — The South Montgomery County YMCA is hosting a 3 hour indoor Spin-a-Thon benefit ride on Saturday, Jan. 30, from 8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 11 a.m. at the Shadowbend YMCA.<\/p>\n

The event is a great training ride for the MS150! You can ride for 3 hours or choose a 1 hour segment! Led by the YMCA Cycling Instructors, the ride will provide a variety of music, training and levels of difficulty along with door prizes, refreshments and camaraderie.<\/p>\n

Space is limited. You can bring your own bike with trainer. YMCA Membership is not required but you must pre-register. The registration fee is $20.\u00c2\u00a0 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C02 bicycle tire inflators are recalled The Leaf-Chronicle \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 January 8, 2010 The following product recalls come from various federal and state agencies and were supplied to The Leaf-Chronicle by recalls.org: Todson Inc. is recalling CO2 bicycle tire inflators sold …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[596,660,46,359,1342,1257],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bikehouston","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-greater-dallas-bicyclists","tag-product-recall","tag-spin-a-thon","tag-terra-x-cyclocross-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-Wd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","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=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}