{"id":5229,"date":"2010-07-08T23:39:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T04:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2010-07-08T23:39:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T04:39:21","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-july-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-july-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for July 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikedenton.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/bikedenton.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/08\/bicycle-accident-map\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bicycle accident map<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Bike Denton by howard<br \/>\nReaders from last year will remember that when Nick Magruder was seriously hit and run on Bonnie Brae, the Denton Police were not collecting bicycle accident stats at that time.\u00c2\u00a0 Naturally, we asked if they could, and they agreed to start keeping track of bicycle accidents.\u00c2\u00a0 The police gave us a raw spreadsheet of accident data, and we plugged in the data to Google Maps via <a title=\"www.batchgeo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.batchgeo.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.batchgeo.com<\/strong><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 You can click on each dot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.crosstimbersgazette.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crosstimbersgazette.com\/local-news\/881-bicycle-safety-is-a-two-way-street.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bicycle\u00c2\u00a0 safety is a two-way street<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby The Cross Timbers Gazette (blog)<br \/>\n&#8230; enjoys bike riding with his 20-year-old son. For more information on bicycle safety and Texas law, visit the Texas Bicycle Coalition at www.biketexas.org. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.mudvillenews.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mudvillenews.com\/mnarchives\/2010\/mn20100707\/mn20100707_news3.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Mudville News :: Blistering Sands Bicycle Tours<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDespite Hurricane Alex hitting Mudville the Blistering Sands Challenge Bicycle Tours began at 8 AM on Saturday, July 3, 2010 at the Hill Park.\u00c2\u00a0 This challenge is presented by the St. John Knights of Columbus to raise money for their scholarship fund.\u00c2\u00a0 This past year they were able to give out $6000 in scholarships through various fundraisers.\u00c2\u00a0 West Texas State Bank and Spec.-Ops sponsored the event. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mudvillenews.com\/mnarchives\/2010\/mn20100707\/gfx\/mn20100707_news3.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Mudville News\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bicycle accident map from Bike Denton by howard Readers from last year will remember that when Nick Magruder was seriously hit and run on Bonnie Brae, the Denton Police were not collecting bicycle accident stats at that time.\u00c2\u00a0 Naturally, we <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-july-8th\/\"><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":[492,547,1846,660],"class_list":["post-5229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bicycle-accident","tag-bicycle-safety","tag-blistering-sands-challenge-bicycle-tours","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1ml","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","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=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}