{"id":4800,"date":"2010-05-25T22:48:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T03:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2010-05-25T22:48:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T03:48:38","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for May 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikeforafbridgeportacademy.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/bikeforafbridgeportacademy.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/deep-in-heart-of-texas.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bike for Achievement First Bridgeport Academy: Deep in the heart &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Harold<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve had an eventful 2 days of riding. Yesterday, we had steady 30mph winds all day. The route curved in various directions, so we had to fight crosswinds, and occasionally a head wind. That made the day as much of a mental challenge as a physical one, because you always had to be focused on handling the bike and not getting blown off the road. 109 miles of that was tough, even though the wind helped more often than not. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_F34FgS0vBt4\/S_xK0DHXWNI\/AAAAAAAApO0\/QWF3QfQlhsg\/s400\/IMG_1169.JPG?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"Bike for Achievement\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/forsaken-bikes-rounded-up-with-chance-to-spin-709140.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Forsaken bikes rounded up, with chance to spin again<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Austin American-Statesman<br \/>\nBicycles bivouacking without shelter on a college campus in Texas weather leads to dust, rust and bust. Sometimes, one wheel is all that&#8217;s left of a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.statesman.com\/multimedia\/dynamic\/00445\/rbz-UT-Bike-Roundup_445635k.jpg?resize=169%2C108\" alt=\"Forsaken Bikes\" width=\"169\" height=\"108\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\/news\/2010\/may\/25\/no-headline---langdon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>LETTER: Unsafe bicycle trails<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby San Angelo Standard Times<br \/>\nI am concerned about the conditions of the bicycle trails at San Angelo State Park. The trails are not being maintained. Grass has grown so tall that it has &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.kens5.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kens5.com\/community\/blogs\/featured-blogs\/JEFF-VAUGHN-Biking-San-Antonio-94191554.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>JEFF VAUGHN: Biking San Antonio | kens5.com | San Antonio Living &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLast September I rode 100 miles in one day for BikeMS. It was a long, hard, but extremely gratifying day.<\/p>\n<p>Since then I have tried to make bicycling a part of my regular workout routine. After spending big money for a road bike, you would too!<\/p>\n<p>But I found an additional benefit to cycling across San Antonio: I am getting to know the Alamo City in a completely different way.<\/p>\n<p>I am the new guy to KENS and since I arrived in January, I have tried to spend as much time as possible getting to know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike for Achievement First Bridgeport Academy: Deep in the heart &#8230; by Harold We&#8217;ve had an eventful 2 days of riding. Yesterday, we had steady 30mph winds all day. The route curved in various directions, so we had to fight <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-25th\/\"><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":[1784,488,660,1785,203],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-for-achievement","tag-bike-trails","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-forsaken-bikes","tag-san-antonio-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1fq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","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=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}