{"id":5728,"date":"2010-08-31T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5728"},"modified":"2010-08-31T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T04:59:08","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for August 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bicycling in a world built for CARS!: Riding to Dallas and Back!<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Commute-a-sarus
\nMy legs were feeling heavy after Hotter’n Hell this past weekend, so I needed a long slow ride. Carola needed a new bike light and REI had the one she wanted on crazy sale. I called around FTW to see if anyone could beat the price and no one could match it, so off\u00c2\u00a0 I went on an adventure. I have never ridden on this route further east than Grapevine so I was a little apprehensive…<\/p>\n

Durango Texas: My First Bike Ride In Over A Year Went Well For The …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Durango
\nI am glad I found Colonel’s Bicycle Shop. Getting back in the saddle, after more than a year of not pedaling, went surprisingly well. I was surprised at how solid the bike now feels with its fixed wheel. I quickly realized I put up with …<\/p>\n

Matt Nowak – Money-making bicycle rides can be a blast, too<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Leavenworth Times
\nMany of our local riders made the annual trek recently to Texas to ride the Hotter-N-Hell One Hundred. It is flat as a pancake, but it is in August in Texas …<\/p>\n

Durango Texas: Fort Worth’s Colonel’s Bicycles Has Me Back On 2 Wheels<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Durango
\nI believe it was after that that Steve A pointed me to Colonel’s Bicycle Shop on University Drive in the heart of purple TCU territory. It seemed like a long ways to go at the time Steve A mentioned it. But, I wanted a working wheel. …<\/p>\n

Team McAllen Cycling sweating for a good cause | South Texas …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Helen Escobar
\nThe race was comprised of a two mile run followed by a 15-mile bike ride and then concluding the race was another two miles of running. Hansel Ibarra and Jose Zamudio were the first to cross the finish line that morning. …<\/p>\n

\"Team<\/p>\n

C y c l e * D a l l a s: You see, this is very different from what …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby PM Summer
\nRecently, a paid Texas bicycle advocate commented that with bike lanes and cycle-tracks (aka, side-paths), Texas would look like Amsterdam in 20 years (in terms of bicycle usage). To do that, the population of Texas would have to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bicycling in a world built for CARS!: Riding to Dallas and Back! by Commute-a-sarus My legs were feeling heavy after Hotter’n Hell this past weekend, so I needed a long slow ride. Carola needed a new bike light and REI …<\/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":[2048,660,609,1714,2047],"class_list":["post-5728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-cycle-dallas","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-durango-texas","tag-hottern-hell-100","tag-team-mcallen-cycling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1uo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728","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=5728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}