{"id":48307,"date":"2019-04-11T23:07:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T04:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=48307"},"modified":"2019-04-11T23:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T04:07:27","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-digest-april-11th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/texas-bicycling-news-digest-april-11th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News Digest April 11th 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rails to Trails event postponed<\/a><\/h2>\n

by Mark Smith | www.crosstimbersgazette.com<\/h3>\n

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An event to celebrate local trails has been postponed nearly two months because of bad weather in the forecast.<\/p>\n

The city of Highland Village and Denton County Transportation Authority were preparing for a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rails to Trails\u00e2\u20ac\u009d event Saturday morning at the Highland Village\/Lewisville Lake DCTA stop to kick off the spring season, but the event has been rescheduled because of severe weather expected in the area on Saturday, according to a DCTA news release on Thursday. …<\/p>\n

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Ride of Silence to Ghost Bike for Jessica Rae Saathoff: \u00c2\u00a1Presente!<\/a><\/h2>\n

A Dude Abikes | adudeabikes.com<\/h3>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve titled this sad post the same as the ride for Anthony John Diaz, because it was very similar. A bunch of people show up at a pre-arranged place, they chat, there are some announcements, and the ride begins without people speaking unless needed for safety. The group rides around East Austin with leaders stopping car traffic or the riders as needed, and eventually it arrives at the scene of the victim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death. There is a bike painted all white: a ghost bike. Somber words are …\n\"\"\/<\/p>\n

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Spider Mountain Sticky Icky Improvements<\/a><\/h2>\n

By WhoAmI | austinmountainbiking.com<\/h3>\n

Here’s a video of a test ride of a small change we made on Sticky Icky at Spider Mountain. The trail rose up quite a bit at this point and led to a small root drop and was sloughing off the downhill side, so we gave it a full bench with a slight rise leading to a boot-able roller. We also touched up the catch berm below this, re-cut the bench after this, and built up the LH berm. …<\/p>\n