{"id":4740,"date":"2010-05-19T23:51:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T04:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2010-05-19T23:51:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T04:51:43","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for May 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/news\/story.aspx?list=195065&amp;id=459442\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ride of Silence<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby ConnectAmarillo.com powered by KVII<br \/>\nThere are more and more bicycles on the road for different reasons, all the time and we do have a legal right to be on the road so we&#8217;re asking motors to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/lubbockonline.com\" href=\"http:\/\/lubbockonline.com\/updated-news\/2010-05-18\/lpd-officer-seriously-injured-bike-accident\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>LPD officer seriously injured in bike accident<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby LubbockOnline.com<br \/>\nNeal Brumley of patrol was riding his bicycle on Slide Road south of the Lynn and Lubbock county line when a car hit him. He was transported by AeroCare to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/fitcity\/entries\/2010\/05\/19\/texas_not_so_friendly_to_cycli.html?cxntfid=blogs_fit_city\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Texas\u00c2\u00a0 not so friendly to cyclists<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Austin 360 (blog)<br \/>\nBy Pam LeBlanc | Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 11:01 AM For the second year in a row, Texas has sunk in the League of American Bicyclists&#8217; list of Bicycle &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bsumaps.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/bsumaps.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/cross-country-bike-tour-uses-bsu-maps.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GIS Research &amp; Map Collection: Cross-Country Bike Tour Uses BSU Maps<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby MG<br \/>\nThe GRMC also has a collection of biking tour maps that also proved to be useful. The students determined a route in which they could bicycle for part of the way and take hybrid trains to connect them to the next city: &#8230; By March the two had reached San Antonio, Austin, and Houston, Texas. Then the next stops were New Orleans, Louisiana, and Baltimore, Maryland. They biked from Baltimore to New York City and took the train back to Chicago. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_c5KlMWdcl1Q\/S_RC6e6cABI\/AAAAAAAAA5Y\/IDKBWxSHgNo\/s400\/Bikers.jpg?resize=400%2C250\" alt=\"GMRC\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.thevindicator.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thevindicator.com\/articles\/2010\/05\/19\/sports\/sports30.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>National Trails Day June 5<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Liberty Vindicator<br \/>\nTexans of all ages can explore the Lost Pines region as Bastop County and eight other organizations join state and local parks and other sites across Texas to celebrate National Trails Day on June 5th.<\/p>\n<p>This year, a coalition of groups in Bastrop County is partnering for the first time to offer a large and diverse array of outdoor recreation activities for National Trails Day. Bastrop and Buescher State Parks, Lower Colorado River Authority\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s McKinney Roughs and Lake Bastrop North and South Shore Parks, American Youth Works- E-Corp, Pines and Prairie Land Trust. Environmental Stewardship and Smithville Chamber of Commerce have joined together to offer trail work parties, educational experiences, guided hikes and historic walking tours to celebrate this national event. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride of Silence by ConnectAmarillo.com powered by KVII There are more and more bicycles on the road for different reasons, all the time and we do have a legal right to be on the road so we&#8217;re asking motors to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-19th\/\"><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":[492,186,1765,660,1766,179],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bicycle-accident","tag-bicycle-friendly","tag-bsu-maps","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-national-trails-day","tag-ride-of-silence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1es","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","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=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}