{"id":4470,"date":"2010-04-14T23:34:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T04:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4470"},"modified":"2010-04-14T23:34:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T04:34:49","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for April 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/feeds.chron.com\/~r\/houstonchronicle\/lhoffman\/~3\/82-h_VTwcwY\/6958327.html\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chron.com\/~r\/houstonchronicle\/lhoffman\/~3\/82-h_VTwcwY\/6958327.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How to ride the MS150, from a semi-pro<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBy KEN HOFFMAN Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle<br \/>\nFifteen years ago, the Chronicle asked me to write a column about the MS150 charity bike ride from Houston to Austin. Longtime columnist Maxine Mesinger had multiple sclerosis and was involved with the Lone Star Chapter of the MS Society. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/green\/entries\/2010\/04\/14\/a_busy_few_days_of_green_going.html?cxntfid=blogs_salsa_verde\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/green\/entries\/2010\/04\/14\/a_busy_few_days_of_green_going.html?cxntfid=blogs_salsa_verde\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Commentary on green goings-on from deep in the heart of Texas.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Austin American-Statesman (blog)<br \/>\nOn Sunday, Bicycle Sport Shop hosts a free event on tips for commuting safely by bike. Meet at the Bicycle Sport Shop at 517 South Lamar Blvd. at 11:45 am &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.dentonrc.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/drc\/localnews\/stories\/DRC_City_Council_0414.2460b8810.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dentonrc.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/drc\/localnews\/stories\/DRC_City_Council_0414.2460b8810.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Council gets more details on bike lanes<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Denton Record Chronicle<br \/>\nPlanning is under way to add more bicycle lanes in Denton in coming years by restriping and widening streets and updating city codes, the City Council heard Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Some changes could come soon, including proposals to restripe parts of Eagle Drive and Welch Street to remove one of four traffic lane&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/utcycling.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/utcycling.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/baylor-weekend.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>University of Texas Cycling Team Blog: Baylor Weekend<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Michael Carey<br \/>\nTexas Cycling made its way to Baylor for a weekend of collegiate racing. Some highlights of the weekend are as follows: Men&#8217;s A highlights: Road Race: Joseph Tokarski powered his way to a 2nd place in the road race after motoring 50 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/ruthandmaryjoscyclingadventure.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/ruthandmaryjoscyclingadventure.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/day-25-lagrange-to-navasota-texas-71.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ruth and Mary Jo&#8217;s Cycling Adventure: Day 25, LaGrange to Navasota &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Mary Jo and Ruth<br \/>\nShe did all of her cycling in Texas. 3. Lance Armstrong named his bike shop &#8220;Mellow Johnny&#8221; because when the Tour de France lead cyclist wearing the yellow jersey approaches, the French yell &#8220;maillot jaune&#8221;(yellow jersey in French. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5SfwKpPYaFU\/S8Z_QaLLOhI\/AAAAAAAAAaM\/QzIuTIFdWi4\/s320\/4-14%2B3.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" alt=\"Ruth and Mary Jo\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to ride the MS150, from a semi-pro By KEN HOFFMAN Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle Fifteen years ago, the Chronicle asked me to write a column about the MS150 charity bike ride from Houston to Austin. Longtime columnist Maxine Mesinger <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-14th\/\"><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":[61,741,1686,660,1682,1100],"class_list":["post-4470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bicycle-sport-shop","tag-bp-ms150","tag-denton-bike-lanes","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-ruth-and-mary-jo","tag-ut-cycling-team"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1a6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470","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=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}