{"id":38005,"date":"2017-12-19T23:07:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T05:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=38005"},"modified":"2017-12-19T23:07:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T05:07:44","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-digest-december-19th-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/19\/texas-bicycling-news-digest-december-19th-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News Digest December 19th 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the 14.5-million bike bridge? PeopleForBikes named it one of country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best bikeways<\/a><\/h2>\n

Pam LeBlanc | www.austin360.com<\/h3>\n


\nRemember the rumblings that surrounded the opening of the bike and pedestrian bridges over Barton Creek and Loop 360 earlier this year? Despite all that, a national bike advocacy group has named the project one of the 10 best new bikeways in America. …<\/p>\n

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CYCLE provides bicycles for students who improve reading skills<\/a><\/h2>\n

By Rebecca Hazen | www.chron.com<\/h3>\n


\nVolunteers assembled thousands of bikes to be given to students in the greater Houston area after improving their reading through the program CYCLE (Changing Young Children’s Lives through Education).<\/p>\n

About 7,000 Houston-area students received a new bicycle this week after improving their literacy skills during the first half of the school year.
\nCYCLE (Changing Young Children’s Lives through Education) has given over 150,000 bikes in the greater Houston area to …<\/p>\n

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Summit Bike Club<\/a><\/h2>\n

stllkckn | www.bikemojo.com<\/h3>\n

We wanted to get the word out that the Summit Bike Club, a two-time winner of USA Cycling’s MTB Club of the Year, is expanding in Texas, including the Austin area. The U19 and U23 programs have been up and running in Central Texas the past year or so and Summit is now creating a U15 Austin program. Information can be found at summitbikeclub.org and there is a season kit fitting and information session for U19 at Cycle Progression this Thursday, 12\/21 from 5:30 to 6:30. Although not specifically for the …<\/p>\n

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15-year-old Plano girl last seen on red mountain bike found safe<\/a><\/h2>\n

Written by Claire Z. Cardona | www.dallasnews.com<\/h3>\n


\nUpdate at 11:55 p.m.: Chedana Chitralehkha has been found and is safe, police said.
\nOriginal item: Plano police are asking for help finding a 15-year-old girl who was not home Monday evening at the time she had told her father she would be.
\nChedana Chitralehkha was last seen riding a red mountain bike. She …<\/p>\n

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At the Close of Dallas’ Year of the Bike Share, LimeBike Shares Some Numbers<\/a><\/h2>\n

Stephen Young | www.dallasobserver.com<\/h3>\n


\nBikes, first silver and mustard, then orange, green and yellow, swarmed downtown Dallas this summer before spreading out. The basics are all the same: Bikes cost $1 per hour to ride, payable via a smartphone app. After a rider pays, a hefty security device unlocks, freeing the bike’s back wheel so the rider can pedal off to wherever he or she might wish. The dollars go to one of four companies \u00e2\u20ac\u201d VBikes, with silver and mustard rigs; Spin, which has bikes with orange frames; LimeBike, which has lime bikes; and Ofo, with yellow stock. …<\/p>\n

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Lubbock physicians: Wearing helmets prevent bike-related head injuries<\/a><\/h2>\n

By ELLYSA HARRIS | lubbockonline.com<\/h3>\n

If you give a child a bike, medical professionals say he or she should wear a helmet when riding.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153From my perspective, accidents happen on bikes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Dr. Richard Lampe, chairman of pediatrics at the Texas Tech\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Health Sciences Center. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bikes for children and adults are excellent for exercise, but they need to be ridden safely.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

A properly fitted bike helmet can provide a safety net against injury to the …<\/p>\n

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Dallas City Hall says you’re not the only one tired of all those junky bike rentals<\/a><\/h2>\n

Robert Wilonsky | www.dallasnews.com<\/h3>\n

I counted 77 parked rental bikes on the walk to the office Tuesday morning — a one-minute, two-block mile trek from the Scottish Rite parking lot to the new News digs on Commerce Street. The bikes, either Ofo’s bright-yellow offerings or LimeBike’s yellow-and-green machines, were clustered on every …<\/p>\n

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Automotive Exhaust Might Be Worse for Cyclists Than We Thought<\/a><\/h2>\n

By SELENE YEAGER | www.bicycling.com<\/h3>\n


\nYou may get a good workout on your daily bike commute, but sucking in air pollution from heavy traffic can cancel out any fitness benefits you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d otherwise gain from your efforts, according to a study published this month in The Lancet.<\/p>\n

The study focused on walkers in high-traffic environments, but its findings …<\/p>\n

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Cowboys players donate bikes to Rockwall students<\/a><\/h2>\n

www.fox4news.com<\/h3>\n


\nROCKWALL, Texas – A pair of Dallas Cowboys gave an early Christmas surprise to deserving students at Rochelle Elementary School in Rockwall.<\/p>\n

Defensive ends Demarcus Lawrence and Tyrone Crawford donated new bikes and helmets to 60 kids as part of the 16th annual Academy Sports\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bike donation program.<\/p>\n

The students are …<\/p>\n

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Texas Bicycling from Twitter<\/h1>\n
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Keep The Superdrome in DFW!! – Sign the Petition! https:\/\/t.co\/D24TXYdjap<\/a> via @Change<\/a><\/p>\n

— Catherine Moore (@Pigtailracer) December 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n