{"id":57006,"date":"2021-07-23T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=57006"},"modified":"2021-07-23T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T04:26:11","slug":"texas-biking-news-july-23rd-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/23\/texas-biking-news-july-23rd-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Biking News July 23rd 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-markdown\"><h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/article\/sports\/outdoors\/texas-outdoors\/its-a-totally-different-view-from-the-top-of-a-mountain-bike-texas-outdoors\/273-ca6d7344-b82c-4c03-b79a-665b02325531\">It&#8217;s a totally different view from the top of a mountain bike | Texas Outdoors<\/a><\/h2>\n<h4>Author: Barry Davis | www.kens5.com<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:1px solid #e6e6e6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/embeds\/video\/273-adb8b859-bfd1-48dc-9713-42c49c2a6245\/iframe\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-markdown\"><p>If you think you know everything there is to know about riding a bike, and you haven&#8217;t tried mountain-biking, get ready for an education!<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I have ridden thousands of miles on a bicycle and thought I knew just about everything was was to know about riding. Then I tried mountain-biking. Boy, did I get an education!<\/p>\n<p>I have always ridden road bikes, but always wanted to try mountain-biking. I had no idea how different and just how tough it is.<\/p>\n<p>With a road bike, it is a nice smooth ride where you&#8217;re only really challenged when you come to a significant hill.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain-biking is a &#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshallindependent.com\/news\/local-news\/2021\/07\/up-for-the-challenge\/\">Up for the challenge<\/a><\/h2>\n<h4>Jake Przytarski | www.marshallindependent.com<\/h4>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"840\" width=\"878\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ogden_images.s3.amazonaws.com\/www.marshallindependent.com\/images\/2021\/07\/22211619\/biking-copyweb-878x840.jpg?resize=878%2C840&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jake Przytarski Steve Myhrberg, a New York native, stands behind his bike on Monday during his brief visit to Marshall to visit his brother Phil and their family.<\/p>\n<p>MARSHALL \u00e2\u20ac\u201d In the summer of 1981, a 28-year old Steve Myhrberg of Glens Falls, New York set out on a cross-country bicycle trip with his wife Pat in celebration of their eight-year anniversary. The couple went on to make it through the first leg of the tour, which included a stop in Marshall to visit Steve\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brother Phil, but the pair ended up falling just short of their ultimate goal.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 40 years later, the two are back on the road and eager to finish what they started.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I wanted to do something that was challenging enough where I gave myself a 50\/50 &#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/herald-zeitung.com\/community_alert\/article_c2f68460-ec00-11eb-8893-e3d0ec5ee80b.html\">Bikes and parts are proving hard to find for New Braunfels shops<\/a><\/h2>\n<h4>By Lisa Dreher | herald-zeitung.com<\/h4>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/herald-zeitung.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/7e\/f7e7b554-ec00-11eb-813c-57d3fcc68007\/60fb3b46ca049.image.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Chain Link bike technician Erik Rodriguez and owner Seana Rosseau work on one of several bike repairs in the shop. Repairs have been a key part of business as supplies of new bikes have dried up.<\/p>\n<p>With more people buying bikes during the pandemic to get some fresh air, shops everywhere are facing bike and parts shortages while repairs ramp up.<\/p>\n<p>Bike sales rose 78% during the pandemic, according to NPD Group, a market-research firm.<\/p>\n<p>That climb in demand has left shops with backorders on assembled bikes and parts that are expected to last into the fall and perhaps even to next year.\nBike repairs<\/p>\n<p>The Chain Link bike technician Erik Rodriguez &#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>    <blockquote class=\"reddit-card\" >      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/bikehouston\/comments\/oq9obo\/best_bike_map\/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share\">Best Bike Map?<\/a> from      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/bikehouston\/\">bikehouston<\/a>    <\/blockquote>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.redditmedia.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/23\/texas-biking-news-july-23rd-2021\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-ePs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57006","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=57006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57007,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57006\/revisions\/57007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}