{"id":7640,"date":"2011-03-11T22:19:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=7640"},"modified":"2011-03-11T22:19:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:19:35","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/velonews.competitor.com\" href=\"http:\/\/velonews.competitor.com\/2011\/03\/bikes-and-tech\/rocky-mountain-recalls-some-cyclocross-models-because-of-potential-fork-problem_163295\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Rocky Mountain Bicycles recalls some cyclocross bikes because of fork failures<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nvia VeloNews by VeloNews.com on 3\/10\/11<br \/>\nProcycle Group, Inc., the parent company of Rocky Mountain Bicycles, is recalling about 325 cyclocross bikes because the steerer tube on the bikes can fail.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the company has received four reports of injuries, including three reports of cuts and scrapes and one report of a broken wrist. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforbikes.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforbikes.org\/blog\/entry\/making_the_case_the_national_bike_summit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Making the case: The National BIke Summit<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom The Blog www.peopleforbikes.org<br \/>\nEvery March in Washington, D.C., hundreds of bicycle advocates and industry leaders convene for the National Bike Summit. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a chance to share lessons and best practices in advocating for bicycling, but, more importantly, to make bicycling better through the only way possible: asking.<\/p>\n<p>Bicycling in America has its issues, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned that if we want to make it easier and safer to ride a bike, then we have to have a seat at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\/news\/2011\/mar\/11\/bicycle-commute-benefits-go-beyond-saving-on-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Bicycle-commute benefits go beyond saving on gas<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby San Angelo Standard Times<br \/>\nBy Bill Cullins SAN ANGELO, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Gas prices hit $3.45 a gallon this week. It may be time to seriously consider parking the car and riding a bicycle to and from work. Bike commuting might be one way to get back at the oil and gas market speculators. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky Mountain Bicycles recalls some cyclocross bikes because of fork failures via VeloNews by VeloNews.com on 3\/10\/11 Procycle Group, Inc., the parent company of Rocky Mountain Bicycles, is recalling about 325 cyclocross bikes because the steerer tube on the bikes <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-11th\/\"><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":[1061,660,713,359],"class_list":["post-7640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-commute","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-national-bike-summit","tag-product-recall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1Ze","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640","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=7640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}