{"id":5594,"date":"2010-08-15T23:26:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2010-08-15T23:26:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:26:22","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-15th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/15\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-15th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for August 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you ever ride a bike like this? I rode a JC Higgins bike from Sears Roebuck in 1950’s like this but in the boy’s design.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Vintage Texas Rangerette Bicycle<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom the Denver Craig’s List
\nThis is a Texas Rangerette bicycle. It has been cleaned up a little bit, but needs just a little bit more elbow grease and will look fabulous! …<\/p>\n

\"Texas<\/p>\n

Cycling: Bike polo grows locally<\/strong><\/a>
\n12:04 AM CDT on Sunday, August 15, 2010
\nBy Todd Jorgenson \/ Sports Editor Denton Record-Chronicle
\nBicycle polo probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t show up on national television or receive widespread media attention anytime soon, but Nathaniel Lightfoot still wants to see the sport grow.<\/p>\n

Lightfoot is the founder of North Texas Bike Polo, a group that gathers informally twice a week at Denia Park for pickup games in a grassroots sport that combines cycling and polo, with a couple of hockey twists thrown in. …<\/p>\n

Texas 4000 Reaches Their Goal In Alaska<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom www.texasexes.org
\nA 70-day, 4,687-mile bicycle ride and cancer awareness tour comes to a close today as 53 UT students reach their finish line in Anchorage, Alaska.<\/p>\n

This year marked the seventh annual Texas 4000, founded by cancer survivor Chris Condit, BS ’04. “The grueling journey from Austin to Anchorage is nothing compared to the ordeal of fighting cancer,” Condit says. “The ride is our opportunity to contribute to the fight that so many people wage every day.” …<\/p>\n

\"Texas<\/p>\n

Bicycling Author Shares Experiences: TEXAS STATE TIME TRIAL …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Jerry Dusterhoff
\nI participate in two sets of TT championships: USAC and Senior Games. The USAC distance is 20k, and Senior Games have 10k and 5k distances. Today the USAC championships were held in Floresville, Tx. Once again, I managed to put together a sterling performance, good enough to garner a silver medal. Since I was 50 seconds behind first place, there are no recriminations as to what I could have done to shave time. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you ever ride a bike like this? I rode a JC Higgins bike from Sears Roebuck in 1950’s like this but in the boy’s design. Vintage Texas Rangerette Bicycle from the Denver Craig’s List This is a Texas Rangerette …<\/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":[1324,660,770,2012,942],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-polo","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-texas-4000-for-cancer","tag-texas-state-time-trial","tag-vintage-bikes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1se","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","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=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}