{"id":6206,"date":"2010-10-28T23:58:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T04:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=6206"},"modified":"2010-10-28T23:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T04:58:48","slug":"daily-news-roundup-october-28th-texas-bicycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/daily-news-roundup-october-28th-texas-bicycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup October 28th &#8211; Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle.net\/2010\/product-recall-easton-sposrts-ec90-seat-post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle.net\/2010\/product-recall-easton-sposrts-ec90-seat-post\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Product Recall \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Easton Sports EC90 Seat Post<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Bicycle.net | Attitude is Everything by editor<br \/>\nThe U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.<\/p>\n<p>Name of Product: Bicycles with 2010 EC90 Zero seat posts.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/austin\/news\/2010\/10\/28\/city-building-11m-in-bike-lanes.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/austin\/news\/2010\/10\/28\/city-building-11m-in-bike-lanes.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>City of Austin building $1.1M in bike lanes<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Bizjournals.com<br \/>\nAustin City Council approved a deal Thursday with the Texas Department of Transportation to build 10 miles of new bicycle lanes. The city and the state are &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.bizjournals.com\/austin\/news\/2010\/10\/28\/Bike%2520map3%2A280.jpg?resize=280%2C297\" alt=\"Austin bike lanes\" width=\"280\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.caller.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caller.com\/news\/2010\/oct\/28\/new-events-can-help-change-culture-of-health-in\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New events can help change culture of health in Corpus Christi<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Corpus Christi Caller Times<br \/>\nI hear it all the time, Corpus Christi residents complaining that Austin is so much more fun, so much more beautiful, just plain better than Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p>I disagree with all those, and for the record, think comparisons between Corpus Christi and Austin are patently unfair. Corpus Christi never will&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\" href=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2010\/10\/28\/austin-bike-culture-calendar-events-1028-11310\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AustinBikeBlog+%28Austin+Bike+Blog%29\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events 10\/28\/10 to 11\/03\/10<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Austin On Two Wheels<br \/>\nSweatin Burnt Orange Bicycle Tour 830 AM Blanco High School 1215 Fourth St Blanco TX In its fifth year the Sweatin Burnt Orange Bike Tour has established &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/silver-starlight.net\/blog\" href=\"http:\/\/silver-starlight.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/100-days-as-a-cyclist\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>100 Days As A Cyclist<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPublished on 25 October 2010 in Journal. from silver-starlight.net<br \/>\nOne hundred days ago I bought my first nice bike (a.k.a. my first bike purchased from a bike shop and not a department store). What possessed me, aside from the thrill of learning that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d passed my quals for the last time ever? Well, Joe and I had rented bikes to ride the Cades Cove loop in Great Smoky Mountains National Park a few weeks earlier, and, despite the absolute clunkers we rode and my abysmal performance as a rider, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d had just enough fun to consider taking the plunge. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_buBLrEVcQE4\/TDjuCmmzKAI\/AAAAAAAAIqs\/IFxFZBFujDs\/s640\/IMG_4392.JPG?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"Nicole\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/weareaustin.com\" href=\"http:\/\/weareaustin.com\/fulltext?nxd_id=99816\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Texas High School Mountain Bike League Launch Party<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom weareaustin.com<br \/>\nThe Texas High School Mountain Bike League and its sponsor, Mellow Johnny&#8217;s Bike Shop, will host a launch party for the league, which will introduce the sport to Texas high schools.<\/p>\n<p>The League was selected to be a part of the National Interscholastic Cycling Association in 2010. There will be skills camps and training&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Product Recall \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Easton Sports EC90 Seat Post from Bicycle.net | Attitude is Everything by editor The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/daily-news-roundup-october-28th-texas-bicycling\/\"><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":[986,449,273,2211,5253,359,2210],"class_list":["post-6206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-austin-events","tag-bike-lanes","tag-corpus-christi-texas","tag-new-biker","tag-news","tag-product-recall","tag-texas-high-school-mountain-bike-league"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1C6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206","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=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}