{"id":4193,"date":"2010-03-13T23:34:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T05:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2010-03-13T23:34:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T05:34:43","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/13\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-13th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 13th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/lifeonabaron.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/lifeonabaron.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/okay-ride-to-grapevinethen-it-began-to.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Okay ride to Grapevine&#8230;then it began to rain<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Life On A Baron<br \/>\n60 degrees at the start, it was supposed to rain much later in the evening so I tried to get a Grapevine\/DFW Airport ride in, it started sprinkling going across Grapevine Dam which by itself didn&#8217;t bother me but the addition of a west wind didn&#8217;t make it fun at all. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9HtSTwQNERc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9HtSTwQNERc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bikehugger Social Mobile Bike Ride &#8211; SXSW 2010 &#8211; Austin,<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom www.youtube.com\u00c2\u00a0 01:15<br \/>\nBikehugger Social Mobile Bike Ride in Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive. Over 500 bikes hit the streets for a tour of the city and a bbq at the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"play\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"loop\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9HtSTwQNERc\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eq6TZ4fLltE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eq6TZ4fLltE\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DA2W &#8211; Lake Houston Park &#8211; New Caney &#8211; Northeast side of Houston<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom www.youtube.com\u00c2\u00a0 01:54<br \/>\nDiscovering America on 2 Wheels &#8211; This video is shot at Lake Houston Park in New Caney Tx on the Northeast side of Houston. The screened shelters in this video were newly constructed in September ..<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"play\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"loop\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eq6TZ4fLltE\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/barbieandherbike.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/barbieandherbike.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/training-ride-3-13-10.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Barbie And Her Bike: Training Ride 3-13-10<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Barbara Rojas<br \/>\nClear blue skies, not too hot or too cold, and no winds. I felt like I was on top of Texas, probably literally with the elevation heights we climbed. The first 7 miles were a little slow as R was getting his cycling legs back. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xS97HiH8f4U\/SztuC9mwEuI\/AAAAAAAAAGs\/4kmEg2ugsfI\/S724\/100_0036.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Barbie\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/donbynum.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/donbynum.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/14\/cycling-ride-report-llano-tx-to-castell-tx-and-back\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cycling\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ride Report: Llano, TX to Castell, TX and Back \u00c2\u00ab Don &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby donbynum<br \/>\nA few days ago, Peggy and I took the truck out and scouted an area in western Llano County for additional great rides.\u00c2\u00a0 WOW!\u00c2\u00a0 We hit pay-dirt!<\/p>\n<p>Eight or ten years ago the old town of Castell, sitting on the south bank of the Llano River about 18 miles west of the Llano town square was essentially a ghost town.\u00c2\u00a0 Today it still has some of the flavor of a ghost town but has become home to a number of Bed and Breakfasts and the old Castell General Store has reopened, mostly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/cycling-kwilkinson.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/cycling-kwilkinson.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/made-it.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Texas\u00c2\u00a0 Hell Week and Other Assorted Death Rides: Made it&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Keith<br \/>\nYesterday we made it to Texas after a near 20 hour drive to Texas through some of the nastiest weather I have seen. Checked into the cabin and went to Hondos for dinner. It is nice to be back. in Fredericksburg. Great little town. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_O9-_XGInRSE\/S5rkHCByHjI\/AAAAAAAADOU\/FhQq12mF6Qg\/s320\/n245619702346_2647.jpg?resize=200%2C199\" alt=\"Texas Hell Week\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay ride to Grapevine&#8230;then it began to rain from Life On A Baron 60 degrees at the start, it was supposed to rain much later in the evening so I tried to get a Grapevine\/DFW Airport ride in, it started <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/13\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-13th\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[1213,1599,1600,660,1601,190,1263],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-barbara-rojas","tag-baron-bicycle","tag-bikehugger","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-lake-houston-park","tag-llano-texas","tag-texas-hell-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-15D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","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=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}