{"id":5004,"date":"2010-06-18T02:08:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T07:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2010-06-17T23:35:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T04:35:42","slug":"daily-news-roundup-june-17th-texas-bicycling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/daily-news-roundup-june-17th-texas-bicycling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup June 17th – Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

This bike is out of my price range and maybe this is a blessing.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Steered wrong? Racers concerned about broken carbon steerer tubes<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom VeloNews by Zack Vestal
\nA small but concentrated group of mid-Atlantic road racers have recently broken the carbon steerers on their 2010 Trek Madone 6-Series bikes. While the regional nature of the reports is probably a coincidence, there does appear to be a pattern indicating that incorrect stem installation \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and even stem choice \u00e2\u20ac\u201d could lead to catastrophic failure. And at least one racer whose fork broke mid-race is convinced that the 6-Series Madone steerers are prone to breakage even when all of Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s instructions are followed. …<\/p>\n

Protein After, Not During, Exercise<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin by Dr. Gabe Mirkin
\nHigh-protein meals eaten immediately after hard exercise have been shown to help athletes recover faster, but the data that taking protein during exercise improves an athlete’s performance is extremely weak.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, showed that adding protein (19g\/hour) to a sugared drink does not improve one-hour cycling time trial, maximum power; or post exercise isometric strength, muscle damage (CPK) or muscle soreness (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, June 2010). Protein also does not help athletes cycle faster…<\/p>\n

Central Texas Digest: Bicyclist struck, killed on Cameron Road; death row …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Austin American-Statesman
\nA bicyclist was killed Tuesday night in Northeast Austin when he failed to yield the right of way and was hit by a minivan, police said Wednesday. …<\/p>\n

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 6\/17\/10 – 6\/23\/10 | Austin On Two …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby elliott
\nWeekly Thursday night road racing through October that takes place on the closed car-free driving course at the Driveway. Races include Cat 3\/4 women’s and juniors race at 5:00, Cat 4\/5 at 6:10, Cat 3\/4 at 5:30, Pro\/Cat 1\/2\/3 at 6:45 … 8 AM, Lake Granger, Hutto, TX A Super Sprint Tri\u00e2\u20ac\u201c 300 Meter Swim, 12 Mile Bike, 2 Mile Run. This is a USAT sanctioned event and USAT membership or day pass purchase is required. Sunday Morning Fixie Ride 8:20 AM, Posse East, 2900 Duval St …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This bike is out of my price range and maybe this is a blessing. Steered wrong? Racers concerned about broken carbon steerer tubes from VeloNews by Zack Vestal A small but concentrated group of mid-Atlantic road racers have recently broken …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[986,492,5264,5253,1828],"class_list":["post-5004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-austin-events","tag-bicycle-accident","tag-health","tag-news","tag-trek-madone-6-series-bikes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1iI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004","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=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}