{"id":6449,"date":"2010-11-21T21:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T03:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2010-11-21T21:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T03:35:45","slug":"whats-turning-the-bike-spokes-on-the-net-november-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/21\/whats-turning-the-bike-spokes-on-the-net-november-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Turning the Bike Spokes on the Net November 21st."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/drc\/localnews\/stories\/DRC_turkeyroll_1121.24e039733.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Annual bicycle rally draws more than 1,000 cyclists<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBy Rachel Mehlhaff \/ Staff Writer<br \/>\nfrom www.dallasnews.com<br \/>\nIt took about six minutes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the length of two Taylor Swift songs interrupted by the occasional \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gobble, gobble, gobble\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for more than 1,000 cyclists to roll out of the starting point for the Turkey Roll Bicycle Rally on Saturday morning.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dallasnews.com\/s\/dws\/img\/drc\/11-10\/1121turkeyrollsm.jpg?resize=268%2C201\" alt=\"Turkey Roll\" width=\"268\" height=\"201\" \/><br \/>\nThe 28th annual rally, hosted by the Denton Breakfast Kiwanis Club, kicked off with music blaring in the parking lot of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Riders could choose&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/texasmtbguy.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/texasmtbguy.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/21\/what-this-is-about\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>What this is about.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Texas MTB Guy<br \/>\nSo I recently picked up my first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153real\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mountain bike, and I freaking love it. I want to really get deeper into the sport and find out what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about, so I figured I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d start this blog and keep track of all my experiences.<\/p>\n<p>But first, background.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Tim, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m an 18 year old college student in North Texas. My bike is a 2009 Specialized Rockhopper. I like to think that I have above average bike skills, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how I really compare. Physically I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in no shape, I originally bought the bike to get some quality exercise. (I hate the gym, too boring.) I figured&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual bicycle rally draws more than 1,000 cyclists By Rachel Mehlhaff \/ Staff Writer from www.dallasnews.com It took about six minutes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the length of two Taylor Swift songs interrupted by the occasional \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gobble, gobble, gobble\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for more than <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/21\/whats-turning-the-bike-spokes-on-the-net-november-21st\/\"><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":[2260,777],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-texas-mtb-guy","tag-turkey-roll-bicycle-rally"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1G1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","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=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}