{"id":6858,"date":"2010-12-28T22:53:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T04:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=6858"},"modified":"2010-12-28T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T04:53:40","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-december-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-december-28th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for December 28th"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the blizzard hitting the north and northeast parts of the country Lifehacker.com decided bikers needed some winter riding tips and hints. We don’t need these so much in Texas but they could come in handy.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Zip Tie Snow Tires: The Cheapest Way To Blizzard-Proof Your Bike<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nvia Lifehacker by Kyle VanHemert on 12\/28\/10
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\nIt’s officially that time of year, with snow and slush and ice perpetually impeding your biking. What to do? Well, if you’ve got a box of zip ties and feel like getting your MacGyver on, you do this. …<\/p>\n

Keep Biking in the Winter, but Wear Thinner Layers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nvia Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 12\/28\/10
\nWith the right maintenance and equipment trade-outs, you can keep biking in winter. One thing you shouldn’t do, though, is wear a heavy coat. It furnaces the heat you create when pedaling, and then freezes your sweat during your frequent stops. …<\/p>\n

Cycling \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Nice post-Christmas ride with Gil Jones<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nfrom Don Bynum’s Blog by donbynum
\nHopefully this missive will find everyone basking in the warm afterglow of Christmas\/Hannuka (pick your own spelling)\/Winter Solstice goat dances, or whatever.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Gil Jones (riding his shiny new Scattante 570 Prostate Crusher) and I did a 28 miler out to the northeast of Burnet, around to the south to Bertram, stopped at the Hungry Moose in Bertram, then on to the southwest to catch CR330 back into Burnet.\u00c2\u00a0 Even in the dead of winter, the Hill Country…<\/p>\n

2010 saw addition of bike lanes<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Austin 360 (blog)
\nBack in 1998, when I moved back to Austin from McAllen, Texas, we had about 60 miles of improved bike lanes in the city. Today we’ve got more than 170 miles …<\/p>\n

Texas Mountain Trail Daily Photo: Pinto Canyon Road Ride<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Beth
\nYesterday we took a bike ride down the paved portion of Pinto Canyon road (FM 2810) heading southwest out of Marfa. This scenic road takes you by buildings from the site of Fort D.A. Russell and just a bit further to the east on the …<\/p>\n

Group wants bicycle paths along MoPac<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Austin News
\nAUSTIN (KXAN) – The League of Bicycling Voters , a group created to monitor bicycling safety and accessibility, is pushing for bicycle and pedestrian paths to be constructed along Mopac from Caesar Chavez to Parmer Lane. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the blizzard hitting the north and northeast parts of the country Lifehacker.com decided bikers needed some winter riding tips and hints. We don’t need these so much in Texas but they could come in handy. Zip Tie Snow Tires: …<\/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":[2353,660,2246,2354,2352,2355,611],"class_list":["post-6858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-austin-bike-lanes","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-don-bynum","tag-pinto-canyon","tag-snow-tires","tag-the-league-of-bicycling-voters","tag-winter-biking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1MC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858","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=6858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}