{"id":3696,"date":"2010-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2010-01-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:00:00","slug":"daily-news-roundup-january-26th-texas-bicycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/daily-news-roundup-january-26th-texas-bicycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup January 26th – Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

100 mile bike ride – Halfway point<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom www.youtube.com \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a005:56
\n100 mile bike ride with @J_hirsch and @holisticguru. Beautiful January day in Texas, riding singlespeed.<\/p>\n

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PLANET ROCK: What’s good about Texas?<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Dirty Girl
\nWelcome to my world. Ruminations and observations on the mud, fun, and tears of bicycle racing from the back of the pack. Amateur racing–you couldn’t pay me to do this. Tuesday, January 26, 2010. What’s good about Texas? …<\/p>\n

Fill ‘er Up \u00c2\u00ab The Turbo Charger || News From Larry Dennis, Sr.<\/strong><\/a>
\nby bradb
\nMy 66-year old brother, Bill, just rode his bicycle from Brownsville, Texas east to Florida, up to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then back to Spokane, Washington. This was his second year to accomplish this feat. He took a little different …<\/p>\n

Your Turn \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jan. 27<\/strong><\/a>
\nby San Antonio Express
\nA letter-writer contends that bicyclists don’t go through hoops \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as opposed to licensed drivers of motor vehicles \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to comply with rules and licensing. He hopes bicycle riders do not endanger themselves trying to show the world they have rights.<\/p>\n

Dear Texas: We’re not known for being pushed around. Why start now? Gov. Rick Perry’s reign of power needs to end. It’s time for new, calculated, smart leadership in Austin. …<\/p>\n

Designing Bicycle\u00c2\u00a0 Cities – design mind on GOOD – GOOD<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Eric Wicks
\nIf you ride a bike and live in Texas like I do, you’re screwed. Three of the largest cities in the country are in the Lone Star state, and they are all among the worst to bike in. But in fact, only one or two of the biggest urban areas …<\/p>\n

Review: thinksport Stainless Steel Water Bottle | Austin On Two Wheels<\/strong><\/a>
\nby elliott
\nWhile the true test will come during our Texas summers, I found the bottle did an excellent job of keeping water ice cold for 3-4 hours. This is considerably better than Polar bottles which tend to keep water cold 1-2 hours depending on ambient temperature. Also, as an added bonus the bottle is designed to handle hot liquids unlike most other sports bottles. While the thinksport bottle exceeded my ….<\/p>\n

Fellow travelers \u00c2\u00ab Jim’s Bike Blog<\/strong><\/a>
\nby jimsbikeblog
\nAmong the dozens of fellow cyclists we met during our transcontinental bicycle journey last fall were three young men on a mission \u00e2\u20ac\u201c literally.
\nRyan James, Caleb Price and Jonathan Engelhardt, best friends from college, were traveling from San Diego to St. Augustine, Fla. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c following roughly the same Southern Tier route that we used \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to raise money for a medical clinic in Durban, South Africa, and for a mission trip to that country.
\nWe crossed paths with the trio on Oct. 18 in Brackettville, on the southwestern approaches to the Texas Hill Country, where they and some of our riders had stopped for lunch at a local church, Templo Elienai…<\/p>\n

Bike Shop Review: VO2 Triathlon & Cycles | Austin On Two Wheels<\/strong><\/a>
\nNo question Austin is a triathlon town. Our summer racing calendar is littered with races from short Sprint distance to ironman distance with races like the Capital of Texas Triathlon pulling national talent to race in our city. Go on any road ride, and more than likely you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see at least a few riders riding aerobar equipped triathlon bikes. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve even got some resident triathlon celebs like Ironman World Championship podium finished…<\/p>\n

MEECH Custom Bicycles: Congrats to Larry Yancey!<\/strong><\/a>
\nby MEECH
\nLarry recently won the Texas Cyclocross Championships in the Master’s race aboard his MEECH S3 CX bike. That makes about 3 or 4 state championships for Larry in about a year, only 47 more states to go. I recently read that the U.S. is …<\/p>\n

Super Squadra \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb New Roads to Explore in Austin<\/strong><\/a>
\n2009 Two Time Junior National Track Champion | 2009 TX Premiere Cup Team Champion | 2009 TX State Cup Individual and Team Champions
\nIn preparation for the start of the Texas racing calendar, developers plowed through some primo Texas Hill Country real estate in anticipation of future Lake Travis communities off of Lakeway Blvd and the tiny, well kept secret back way to Pace Bend Park, Bee Creek Road. Austin cyclists, please rejoice and take pride in a fresh new bike path through Lakeway, Highlands blvd. There are plenty of turns and chances to use a full range of 2010 Force cassette choices…<\/p>\n

Discovering America on 2 Wheels: Good Morning from Lake Jackson Tx!<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Wills on Wheels
\nYep… I’m back at home… time to take care of a few things…and THINK and PLAN!<\/p>\n

You know one of the things that keeps coming up in conversations besides the fact that I’m doing this cross country bicycle trek in winter is…. how I’m able to do it… not physically, mentally or emotionally but FINANCIALLY!<\/p>\n

Just like a cross country bicycle trek in winter, your financial trek across the landscape of your life requires some thought, planning, sacrifice, discipline, flexibility and adjustment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

100 mile bike ride – Halfway point from www.youtube.com \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a005:56 100 mile bike ride with @J_hirsch and @holisticguru. Beautiful January day in Texas, riding singlespeed. PLANET ROCK: What’s good about Texas? by Dirty Girl Welcome to my world. …<\/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":[5253],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-XC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","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=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}