{"id":5822,"date":"2010-09-14T21:25:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T02:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2010-09-14T23:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T04:00:01","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-september-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-september-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for September 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bikingindallas.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bikingindallas.com\/sunday-09-12-2010-dallas-morning-news-dallas-bike-plan-update\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sunday (09-12-2010) Dallas Morning News: Dallas Bike Plan Update<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Biking In Dallas by Michael W. Hubbard<br \/>\nIf you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see Jason Roberts, his wife and his daughter tooling along on their bicycles with Big D in the background on the cover of the Sunday Dallas Morning News, well, check it out &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/sanantonio.bizjournals.com\" href=\"http:\/\/sanantonio.bizjournals.com\/sanantonio\/stories\/2010\/09\/13\/daily16.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alamo City named bike-friendly city<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby San Antonio Business Journal<br \/>\n&#8230; and the only community in Texas. The city was evaluated on engineering; bicycle education; encouragement; evaluation and planning; and enforcement. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/transportationblog.dallasnews.com\" href=\"http:\/\/transportationblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2010\/09\/dallas-bike-plan-draft-to-be-u.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>City to unveil draft Dallas Bike Plan on Sept. 23, not too late to &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Michael Lindenberger\/Reporter<br \/>\nTexas Instruments employee and bicycle commuter Paul Hakes said in 2007 he was no longer taking any chances with safety after being hit by a motorist that year. He commutes from Irving on his bike and said that on two occasions &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/transportationblog.dallasnews.com\/assets_c\/2010\/09\/dallas%2520bike%25202007-thumb-390x276-92409.jpg?resize=390%2C276\" alt=\"Dallas Bike Plan\" width=\"390\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle.net\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle.net\/2010\/the-other-situation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bicycle .net :: The (other) Situation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby System6<br \/>\nHowever, if one lives instead in north Texas, say, where highway overpasses and gently rolling hills provide for two, maybe three-thousand vertical feet of climbing over the course of a hundred miles, Six Gap represents much more than a &#8230; Thus while running doesn&#8217;t seem the obvious prep for a cycling race, I&#8217;m gambling the cardio-intensity of a 90 minute run once or twice a week will be a more valuable asset than yet another session on the bike or stationary trainer. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/atxbs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/atxbs.com\/?q=node\/3277\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Social Cycling ATX presents: Say Yes! to Yo!Ga Ride! | Austin &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Jason<br \/>\nThe meeting place is the same as the Thursday Night Social Ride&#8230;Fiesta Gardens, just east of the I35 Bridge, North of the River.We&#8217;ll do a short 1\/2 hour-ish ride to a spot where the class will take place. The yoga begins around 8ish. &#8230; Bring a mat and your bike, and be sure to have flashy lights as the cops have been diligently enforcing the law as it pertains to bicycles and their required equipment. Login or register to post comments; Calendar &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/adayinmotherhood.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/adayinmotherhood.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/simple-bike-ride.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Day in Motherhood: A Simple Bike Ride<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Lori<br \/>\nEven on hot days &#8211; today it is a balmy 100 degree Texas day &#8211; the trees add enough filter to keep us from melting into the pavement. So out we go, two on bikes, one in the car, Mommy pushing. Great fun. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/durangotexas.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/durangotexas.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/early-evening-bike-ride-with-alligators.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Durango Texas: An Early Evening Bike Ride With The Alligators &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Durango<br \/>\nAn Early Evening Bike Ride With The Alligators &amp; Jackrabbits At Fort Worth&#8217;s Quanah Parker Park. I had myself a frustrating, annoying afternoon, all computer related. On the way back here from the Tandy Hills today I saw that Quanah &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/donbynum.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/donbynum.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/14\/tour-de-longneques-sept-11-2010-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tour de Longneques \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sept 11 2010 edition<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Don Bynum&#8217;s Blog<br \/>\nHaving made the ride from Llano to Castell several times alone, then having talked my best friend Eric Brewster into doing it with me in July, the ride has sorta begun to have a life of its own.\u00c2\u00a0 In August we were joined by our high school classmate Gil Jones, Eric\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s colleague Tom Collins, Gil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s colleague David Nantz, and my old friend and colleague Doug Miller, bringing the ride to 6 souls, two of which came from a couple hundred miles away. Then came the September 11th Tour de Longneques&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donbynum.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/dsc03190-all-but-ralph-and-gil-before-the-start-cropped.jpg?w=500&#038;h=229&#038;fit=500%2C229&#038;resize=500%2C229\" alt=\"Tour de Longneques\" width=\"500\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday (09-12-2010) Dallas Morning News: Dallas Bike Plan Update from Biking In Dallas by Michael W. Hubbard If you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see Jason Roberts, his wife and his daughter tooling along on their bicycles with Big D in the background on <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-september-14th\/\"><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":[2091,2092,511,660,609,292,2093,2094],"class_list":["post-5822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-alamo-city","tag-austin-cycling","tag-dallas-bike-plan","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-durango-texas","tag-north-texas","tag-simple-bike-ride","tag-tour-de-longneques"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1vU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822","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=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}