{"id":4594,"date":"2010-05-02T23:19:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T04:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2010-05-02T23:19:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T04:19:45","slug":"daily-news-roundup-may-2nd-texas-bicycling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/02\/daily-news-roundup-may-2nd-texas-bicycling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup May 2nd &#8211; Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle.net\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle.net\/2010\/shop-rides-texas-style\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Shop Rides, Texas-Style<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Bicycle.net | Attitude is Everything by System6<br \/>\nWhen it comes to cycling, it seems like everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fast in Texas.\u00c2\u00a0 So much so, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m having a hard time seeing the upside of paying money to pin on a number and race.\u00c2\u00a0 The issue is not about being unable to compete \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but about all the healthy competition already on offer at my local shop ride.<\/p>\n<p>Start with certain self-evident assumptions:\u00c2\u00a0 i) that Texas is a state known to produce its share of great athletes, in general, and maybe more than it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s share of great cyclists, ii) that Austin is the state capitol for cycling, for obvious reasons, but that Dallas is a bigger city and (trust me here) is home to a lot of serious cycling talent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.dailytoreador.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytoreador.com\/news\/bicycle-tour-benefits-from-new-rules-police-presence-1.2256746\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bicycle\u00c2\u00a0 tour benefits from new rules, police presence<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby The Daily Toreador<br \/>\nAbout eight months after the littering, Tasering of a Texas Tech student and the ultimate break up of the biannual bicycle ride Tour de Tech Terrace, the organizers hosted the spring tour largely without incident because of a stronger police presence and more rider awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Kelley Pirkle, with the Lubbock Police Department, said the main concern of officers at the event was the safety of people participating, including bicyclists getting in the way of traffic. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shop Rides, Texas-Style from Bicycle.net | Attitude is Everything by System6 When it comes to cycling, it seems like everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fast in Texas.\u00c2\u00a0 So much so, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m having a hard time seeing the upside of paying money to pin on <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/02\/daily-news-roundup-may-2nd-texas-bicycling-2\/\"><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":[5253,1722,409],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-news","tag-shop-ride","tag-tour-de-tech-terrace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1c6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","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=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}