{"id":7428,"date":"2011-02-20T04:17:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T10:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2011-02-19T23:12:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T05:12:31","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-february-19th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/20\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-february-19th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for February 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikehouston.org\/2011\/02\/tpc-ped-bike-funding-cuts\/\" href=\"http:\/\/bikehouston.org\/2011\/02\/tpc-ped-bike-funding-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Urgent: Funding Cuts for Ped \/ Bike Projects<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Aaron Chang with 1 Comment<br \/>\nRecent proposed funding cuts threaten to delay existing bicycle \/ pedestrian projects and gut plans for new bicycle connectivity trails for the foreseeable future. We have until Friday Feb. 25, 2011 to get this changed. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/business\/article_65ab5c0c-3bc3-11e0-bf84-001cc4c03286.html\" href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/business\/article_65ab5c0c-3bc3-11e0-bf84-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Whitewater custom bike builder will debut new line at national bike show<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Wisconsin State Journal<br \/>\nThat will change next week when the Whitewater bike shop owner officially launches his Sotherland Custom Bicycles line at the National Handbuilt Bicycle Show in Austin, Texas. Last year, the show drew 150 exhibitors and 6000 attendees. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.brownsvilleherald.com\/articles\/21st-123023-run-jorge.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brownsvilleherald.com\/articles\/21st-123023-run-jorge.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Hundreds of cyclists turn out for Jalape\u00c3\u00b1o 100<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Brownsville Herald<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.onset.freedom.com\/brownsville\/gallery\/lgwd8t-lgwd82jjm20111802jalapeno0371web.jpg?resize=560%2C420\" alt=\"Jalapeno 100\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><br \/>\nBy ISAAC GARCIA Valley Morning Star Jorge Martinez was short of breath after completing a 100-mile bicycle run which took him round trip from Harlingen to Port Isabel in the 21st annual Jalape\u00c3\u00b1o Hundred Bicycle Ride. Martinez, 19, and an estimated 600 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikebrookshire.com\/ride-routes\/\" href=\"http:\/\/bikebrookshire.com\/ride-routes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Bike Brookshire<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nRide Routes<br \/>\nA collection of several routes to start you on your journey thru the back roads Brookshire and Waller County.<br \/>\nBrookshire-Simonton-Fulshear \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mostly flat route from Brookshire, South&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/forums.mtbr.com\/showthread.php?t=686220\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.mtbr.com\/showthread.php?t=686220\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Texas Spring Race Circuit &#8211; Mountain Bike Forums<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom forums.mtbr.com<br \/>\nI just registered for my first mountain bike race at Warda in a couple weeks. I will be racing category 3 19-29 y\/o. If I like it I plan on doing at least 3 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.planobicycle.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=322:early-season-caution-&amp;catid=41:latest&amp;Itemid=148\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planobicycle.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=322:early-season-caution-&amp;catid=41:latest&amp;Itemid=148\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Early Season CAUTION !<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Home by mike.emmons@verizon.net (Mike Emmons)<br \/>\nA lot of us are not riding the miles that we had been and with the bad weather in the last few weeks, fitness has slipped for some of us and our reflexes are not quite what they were before the winter hiatus.\u00c2\u00a0 Add to that the sand and increased potholes and you will certainly see more riders doing scary things and making poor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/woodlandscycling.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=237:fish-creek-continues-north-over-fm2854&amp;catid=3:newsflash\" href=\"http:\/\/woodlandscycling.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=237:fish-creek-continues-north-over-fm2854&amp;catid=3:newsflash\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Fish Creek continues north over FM2854<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom WCC by sschoger@comcast.net (Steve Schoger)<br \/>\nOK, good news and bad news!\u00c2\u00a0 Fish Creek will be continued northbound, without having to exit left onto Leah and then to Honea Egypt and then to 2854.\u00c2\u00a0 The bridge over FM2854 and the rail road tracks (Fish Creek had previously dead-ened before these two E-W transit ways) will be dedicated and opened up to vehicle traffic on Wednesday, February 23rd.\u00c2\u00a0 Precinct 2 Commissioner Craig Doyle, a friend of cyclists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urgent: Funding Cuts for Ped \/ Bike Projects by Aaron Chang with 1 Comment Recent proposed funding cuts threaten to delay existing bicycle \/ pedestrian projects and gut plans for new bicycle connectivity trails for the foreseeable future. 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