{"id":36634,"date":"2017-07-15T23:21:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T04:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=36634"},"modified":"2017-07-15T23:21:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T04:21:01","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-july-15th-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/15\/texas-bicycling-news-july-15th-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News July 15th 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/news\/local\/texan-brothers-complete-cross-country-bike-trip-in-new-york\/456945456\">Texan brothers complete cross-country bike trip in New York<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>Bradley Blackburn | www.wfaa.com<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/interactive.tegna-media.com\/video\/embed\/embed.html?id=2661569&amp;type=video&amp;title=Brothers bike 3,500 miles for charity&amp;site=287&amp;playerid=6918249996581&amp;dfpid=32805352&amp;dfpposition=Video_prestream_external\u00c2\u00a7ion=home\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; After 52 days and some 3500 miles, Bobby, Raleigh and Dennis Jenkins are giving their bikes a rest.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be done with my bike for a long time,&#8221; said Raleigh Jenkins.<br \/>\nThe three brothers rolled into Manhattan on Thursday evening, where they were met by family and friends at the finish line in Battery Park.<br \/>\nTheir journey began back in May on the other side of the continent. They dipped their tires in the &#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BikeFriendlyCedars\/posts\/1577744832298844\" data-width=\"552\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/mailchi.mp\/bikehouston\/upcoming-events-20k-matching-campaign-update-1097209?e=9dc4570edf\">2017 Moonlight Ramble Registration Open<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>BikeHouston.org<\/h3>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/d15cae6f55b94ddf5112c3f94\/images\/6bae34a8-b8b5-4701-99c6-5c82ac26abd7.png?resize=1200%2C537&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bike ride\" width=\"1200\" height=\"537\" \/><br \/>\nThe BikeHouston Moonlight Ramble is Houston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest charity bike ride and draws more than 2,000 cyclists, many of whom join us each year and add the latest commemorative Ramble t-shirt to their collection. This fun night-time bike ride suitable for most ages and abilities.<br \/>\nThis year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ride will start and end at Discovery Green, where the Ramble festival will be taking place from 8 pm to midnight. Join us before the &#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcmessenger.com\/2017\/opinion\/columns\/back-in-the-saddle-a-log-of-my-2017-bicycle-races-so-far\/\">Back in the saddle; A log of my 2017 bicycle races so far<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>By David Talley | www.wcmessenger.com<\/h3>\n<p>I wrote a column in January about plans to revisit bicycle racing this year after barely pedaling anywhere in 2016.<br \/>\nI raced a variety of events in college, hitting the road almost every weekend of both semesters to travel around the state for cycling events. But since then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been off my bike more than in the saddle. Last year was the culmination of this, with only one race on the books last July.<br \/>\nBut I wanted to make this year different. Despite not riding much, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always loved reading race reports and cycling coverage. Reading other racers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 blogs is partly what inspired me to jump back on the bike, so I pledged to double from 2016 the number of days I spent &#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Texas Bicycling from Twitter<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Typical leaderboard in the NW Austin metro; entire top 20 is either a Bat City Rider and\/or happened on a Bat City ride. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9BhfppDF3k\">pic.twitter.com\/9BhfppDF3k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bat City Cycling (@batcity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/batcity\/status\/886416640690270208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nice bike tour of Paris this morning<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/627QCtbz8H\">https:\/\/t.co\/627QCtbz8H<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J827PQi2On\">pic.twitter.com\/J827PQi2On<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kirk Teske (@KirkTeske) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KirkTeske\/status\/886277986433073152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Are You Ready To RAMBLEEEEEEEEEEE!? Early Bird R&#8230; &#8211;  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bfyu9wEj7P\">https:\/\/t.co\/Bfyu9wEj7P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BikeHouston (@BikeHouston) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BikeHouston\/status\/886270247828901888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Check out my ride on Strava: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2uCt4wmfQf\">https:\/\/t.co\/2uCt4wmfQf<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/iamspecialized?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#iamspecialized<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SWORKS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SWORKS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tarmac?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tarmac<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STRAVA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#STRAVA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vanity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Vanity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X0K5UYozqX\">pic.twitter.com\/X0K5UYozqX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Cruz (@DCRUZ547) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCRUZ547\/status\/886269439884263424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Riding in humidity is like a slow death. You feel good&#8230;and then you don&#39;t. Sneaky stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mario Arroyave (@marroyave35) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marroyave35\/status\/886257242500149248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Explore new hike and bike paths. Then, eat. One down. One to go. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ATX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ATX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cycling?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cycling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bGy8DE75r3\">pic.twitter.com\/bGy8DE75r3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Erica Proffer (@EricaProffer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricaProffer\/status\/886230998110941187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>New Event Added to Texbiker.net Calendar<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Event Bike Out Hunger &#8211; Mansfield, TX <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IkcroAoOTv\">https:\/\/t.co\/IkcroAoOTv<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UUaO5gxKWA\">https:\/\/t.co\/UUaO5gxKWA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Registration Options*\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/acagovnnKk\">https:\/\/t.co\/acagovnnKk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/texbiker\/status\/886419435342483457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texan brothers complete cross-country bike trip in New York Bradley Blackburn | www.wfaa.com NEW YORK &#8211; After 52 days and some 3500 miles, Bobby, Raleigh and Dennis Jenkins are giving their bikes a rest. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be done with <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/15\/texas-bicycling-news-july-15th-2017\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[5248],"class_list":["post-36634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-texas-bicycling-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-9wS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36634","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=36634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}