{"id":7154,"date":"2011-01-20T23:08:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2011-01-20T23:08:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T05:08:13","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-january-20th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-january-20th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for January 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/sports\/more\/Friscos-Velodrome-could-be-torn-down--114166474.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>WFAA.com: Texas velodrome could be torn down<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom velonews.com<br \/>\nThe 12-year-old, $15 million Superdrome in Frisco could be removed to make way for a parking garage. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Frisco bike track sits on property owned by the Preston Ridge campus of Collin College. The school has averaged a thousand new students a year and officials say they have run out of room for those students to park.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikedenton.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/bikedenton.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/20\/rings-of-querencia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Rings of Querencia<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Bike Denton by bikedenton<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5122\/5368805970_738fa1bff4_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"Chainrings\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\nWhile recently volunteering at Querencia, I helped sort a bunch of older cranksets. I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but arrange them and take a photo. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much beauty in the variety of bicycle parts, especially from bygone eras and styles from distant lands.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/event?eid=Yjc2ODZkdGY4YmdrZWI3bGtpMDdsZzFsNDRfMjAxMTAyMTJUMTQwMDAwWiBzY290dGZyYW5rbGluQG0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/event?eid=Yjc2ODZkdGY4YmdrZWI3bGtpMDdsZzFsNDRfMjAxMTAyMTJUMTQwMDAwWiBzY290dGZyYW5rbGluQG0\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>8:00am &#8211; CCC Group Ride<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Corinth Cycling Club by Scott Franklin<br \/>\nWhen: Sat Feb 12, 2011 8am to 11am\u00c2\u00a0 CST<br \/>\nWhere: Ronny Crownover Middle School<br \/>\nEvent Description: Corinth Cycling Saturday Group Ride Information All rides depart from Ronny Crownover Middle School in Corinth 1901 Creekside Drive, Corinth, TX 76210 Group A: 50 &#8211; 70 miles This is a fast paced group ride at an average speed of around 20mph with faster points. You may get dropped on this ride so be prepared. Ride Leader &#8211; markm@utechdallas.com B Killers: 50 &#8211; 70 miles This is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/ghorba.org\" href=\"http:\/\/ghorba.org\/announcements\/2011-01-member-mtg-ride\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>January Member Meeting and ride this Saturday<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom GHORBA by Veljko Roskar<br \/>\nThe first meeting of 2011 is on January 27 7PM, at Star Pizza on Norfolk<br \/>\nPlease RSVP here so we can plan for space.<br \/>\nWe will cover the following:<br \/>\n1. President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Bill Rustam briefly to cover&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/instantnewskaty.com\" href=\"http:\/\/instantnewskaty.com\/2011\/01\/20\/18744\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Fourth Annual &#8216;Puddle For The Ducks&#8217; Returning To Katy Mills Mall &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby InstantNewsKaty Staff<br \/>\nKaty Mills Mall will once again play host to the 4th annual \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Puddle for the Ducks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bicycle event benefiting Ducks Unlimited. Ducks Unlimited is the. &#8230; Two restored wetland projects are just south of Katy Mills and will be referenced during the bike ride. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Waterfowl across North America need our help and the Texas coast is a high priority area for Ducks Unlimited,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Texas Ducks Unlimited &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/cycling\/7388985.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fspcycling+%28HoustonChronicle.com+--+Cycling%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Cycling notebook: Farewell race no end for Armstrong<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom HoustonChronicle.com &#8212; Cycling<br \/>\nThe Santos Tour Down Under, taking place in South Australia this week, is Lance Armstrong&#8217;s final major international road race. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WFAA.com: Texas velodrome could be torn down from velonews.com The 12-year-old, $15 million Superdrome in Frisco could be removed to make way for a parking garage. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Frisco bike track sits on property owned by the Preston Ridge campus of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-january-20th-2\/\"><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":[1855,619,660,650,1730,1201,56],"class_list":["post-7154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-denton","tag-corinth-cycling-club","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-ghorba","tag-houston-chronicle-cycling-notebook","tag-puddle-for-the-ducks","tag-superdrome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1Ro","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154","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=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}