{"id":4668,"date":"2010-05-11T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T04:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2010-05-11T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T04:50:07","slug":"daily-news-roundup-may-11th-texas-bicycling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/daily-news-roundup-may-11th-texas-bicycling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup May 11th &#8211; Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=455653\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amarillo bike trail expansion<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby ConnectAmarillo.com powered by KVII<br \/>\nBack in 2003, the Amarillo Parks and Recreation Department started it&#8217;s program designating routes for bikers across the city.<br \/>\nSince then, a total of 23 miles worth of trails and routes have been set aside for bicycle enthusiasts and now the city wants to expand even more. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/uploadedImages\/kvii\/News\/Stories\/bike626.bmp?w=204&amp;h=153&amp;aspect=nostretch\" alt=\"Amarillo bike trail\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\/news\/2010\/may\/11\/waste-not-want-not\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BRUCE MCLAREN: Waste not, want not<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby San Angelo Standard Times<br \/>\nI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if the news photo of all the bicycles being trashed at the Great American Cleanup bothered you, but it bothered me. At one time these sorts of items were repaired and made available to kids whose families could not afford a bicycle. Whatever happened to re-cycling?<\/p>\n<p>My parents survived the Great Depression and, having been born not long after it ended, I became a came to understand the importance of the old saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Waste not, want not.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If my folks were alive today, I am sure they would cringe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.pctonline.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pctonline.com\/Team-Termidor-Merchant-MS-bike.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Team Termidor, Mike Merchant Ride for MS<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby PCT Magazine<br \/>\nA pair of industry professionals \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s Mike Merchant and BASF&#8217;s Mike Toce \u00e2\u20ac\u201d were among the participants in the recent Sam&#8217;s Club MS 150 bicycle &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pctonline.com\/FileUploads\/image\/Team%2520Termidor%25202010.jpg?resize=275%2C206\" alt=\"Sam's MS150\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.americantowns.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americantowns.com\/tx\/irving\/news\/city-of-irving-to-host-bicycle-fest-297889\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>City Of Irving To Host Bicycle Fest &#8211; Irving, TX<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom AmericanTowns.com<br \/>\nTo kick off ozone season and National Bike to Work Week, a free Bicycle Fest will be held at Centennial Park, 444 W. Second St. The event will feature a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=oU4m7izV2u0\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=oU4m7izV2u0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>YouTube &#8211; Brazosport Bicycle Tour #1 Part 3 &#8211; Lake Jackson Texas<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThis video is the 3rd video giving a virtual tour of the Brazosport Bicycle Tour #1 offered by Discovering America on 2 Wheels. This tour takes place in Lak &#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\/oU4m7izV2u0\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bicycling.com\/blogs\/mbword\/2010\/05\/11\/10-things-i-learned-at-the-imba-world-summit\/\" href=\"http:\/\/bicycling.com\/blogs\/mbword\/2010\/05\/11\/10-things-i-learned-at-the-imba-world-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>10 Things I Learned At the IMBA World Summit<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Bicycling<br \/>\nNext year, it plans to expand into Michigan, Texas and Wisconsin. Its goal is to have a chapter in every state by 2020. 10. Federal spending on cycling has &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.blueridgeoutdoors.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blueridgeoutdoors.com\/blogs\/spinning-my-wheels\/experiencing-bike-love-in-austin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Experiencing Bike Love in Austin<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine (blog)<br \/>\nMy first weekend away from the children was to visit Michael in Austin, Texas where I found myself in awe of the city&#8217;s biking infrastructure. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/100milesaday.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/100milesaday.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/days-17-and-18-bandera-to-wimberly-to.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The 2010 Cross Country Cycling Adventure: Days 17 and 18 Bandera &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Tony DeLellis<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been in Texas for a long time and I still have a day and a half to get into Louisiana.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m starting to pick up the dialect and I think I may come back home with a bit of an accent. It hasn&#8217;t been easy learning to speak Texas.\u00c2\u00a0 I was at a Walmart yesterday and asked a clerk where the sun screen was. She told me it was over yonder. I just stared at her. She could probably tell from my&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_9_79K5apWKg\/S-lRDy4rbjI\/AAAAAAAAAIY\/QyPvwbntyfk\/s200\/2010%2BCycling%2BAdvgenture%2B008.JPG?resize=200%2C150\" alt=\"Tony DeLeiis\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amarillo bike trail expansion by ConnectAmarillo.com powered by KVII Back in 2003, the Amarillo Parks and Recreation Department started it&#8217;s program designating routes for bikers across the city. Since then, a total of 23 miles worth of trails and routes <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/daily-news-roundup-may-11th-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":[1748,1744,50,1696,1745,1747,1746,5253,143],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-2010-cross-country-cycling-adventure","tag-amarillo-bike-trail","tag-austin-texas","tag-brazosport-texas","tag-great-american-cleanup","tag-imba-world-summit","tag-irving-texas","tag-news","tag-sams-ms150"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1di","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","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=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}