{"id":4395,"date":"2010-04-05T23:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T04:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2010-04-05T23:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T04:15:59","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/05\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for April 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2010\/04\/05\/austin-bike-summit-this-weekend-to-plan-whats-next-for-bike-advocacy\/\" href=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2010\/04\/05\/austin-bike-summit-this-weekend-to-plan-whats-next-for-bike-advocacy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Austin Bike Summit this weekend to plan what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next for bike advocacy<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom austinontwowheels.org<br \/>\n6:00pm-7:00pm Kick-Off Ride<br \/>\nMeet at Pfluger Bike\/Ped Bridge, over Lady Bird Lake, near Lamar Blvd.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austinontwowheels.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bike_summit_imagesm.jpg?resize=150%2C164\" alt=\"Austin Bike Summit\" width=\"150\" height=\"164\" \/><br \/>\n7:00pm-11:00pm Opening Reception<br \/>\nBike Texas Headquarters, 1902 E. 6th St. @ Chicon St.<br \/>\nIncludes food and beer<br \/>\nSaturday, April 10th, 2010<br \/>\nAll Saturday events are at Yellow Bike Project Headquarters, 1216 Webberville Road @ East 12th Street &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/onhilstreet.com\" href=\"http:\/\/onhilstreet.com\/2010\/04\/05\/hil-streets-hill-country-ride-for-aids\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hil Street&#8217;s Hill Country Ride for AIDS \u00c2\u00ab On Hil Street<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby hilstreet<br \/>\nSaturday, April 24, Husbanks and I will participate in the Hill Country Ride for AIDS, a very hilly bicycle ride through the beautiful Texas Hill Country. We&#8217;re riding with our United Methodist church&#8217;s team. The ride is defined as &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/jimsbikeblog.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/jimsbikeblog.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/04\/our-little-corner-of-bicycle-heaven\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOur little corner of bicycle heaven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bicycling is one of the least expensive ways to get to work. Maintenance and upkeep of bicycles is relatively inexpensive and food is the only fuel needed!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bicycle Commuter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Handbook, prepared for the North Texas Clean Air Coalition<br \/>\nIt may be just an excuse, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard people say that, sure, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d commute to work by bicycle if only there were a place to take a shower and a secure storage area for the bike.<br \/>\nBernie Scheffler hopes to remedy those problems \u00e2\u20ac\u201d at least for bike commuters who work in downtown Fort Worth or take the train from there to Dallas \u00e2\u20ac\u201d when he opens his new bike shop, Trinity Bicycles, on April 16. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/ruthandmaryjoscyclingadventure.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/ruthandmaryjoscyclingadventure.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/day-15-van-horn-to-fort-davis-89-miles.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ruth and Mary Jo&#8217;s Cycling Adventure: Day 15, Van Horn to Fort &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Mary Jo and Ruth<br \/>\nWhile eating breakfast this morning, we were surprised to discover that our waffles were in the shape of the state of Texas. Ruth pierced her waffle with a fork on our location. We have miles and miles to cycle through Texas. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5SfwKpPYaFU\/S7n2FbnY1yI\/AAAAAAAAAR0\/r3hhf4y_8tM\/s320\/waffle.jpg?resize=320%2C213\" alt=\"Texas Waffle\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Bike Summit this weekend to plan what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next for bike advocacy from austinontwowheels.org 6:00pm-7:00pm Kick-Off Ride Meet at Pfluger Bike\/Ped Bridge, over Lady Bird Lake, near Lamar Blvd. 7:00pm-11:00pm Opening Reception Bike Texas Headquarters, 1902 E. 6th St. @ <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/05\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-5th\/\"><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":[1669,660,533,1670,1577],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-austin-bike-summit","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-hill-country-ride-for-aids","tag-texas-waffle","tag-trinity-bicycles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-18T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","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=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}