{"id":8144,"date":"2011-04-29T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2011-04-29T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T03:15:07","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-29th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-29th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for April 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.hcbtc.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hcbtc.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/good-news-lutheran-church-bbq-chicken%E2%80%93mother%E2%80%99s-day-plant-sale-ride\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Hill Country Bicycle Touring Club<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nGood News Lutheran Church BBQ Chicken\u00e2\u20ac\u201cMother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day Plant Sale Ride<br \/>\nSaturday, May 7th:\u00c2\u00a0 Accomplish five things with just one ride!\u00c2\u00a0 Get exercise, enjoy the company of club members, train for the Tour de Cure, treat yourself to delicious chicken barbeque, and buy a Mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day plant for that favorite lady in your life!\u00c2\u00a0 Ride starts at 8:30 pm.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Meet at Good News Lutheran Church at the corner of Old Corpus Christi Road and Hwy 181 South.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a 28 mile ride with a 12 mile option available over mostly flat terrain at a medium pace.\u00c2\u00a0 After the ride plan to stay for a barbeque chicken dinner (11:00-2:00 with takeout available) and buy plants at the plant sale ( hanging blooming baskets from 8:30-1:30). Plates are $7.\u00c2\u00a0 For more information, contact ride leader Sandy Barsun at 210-913-3815) or email her at barsun@sbcglobal.net<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2011\/04\/top-10-bike-repair.html\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2011\/04\/top-10-bike-repair.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Top 10: Bike Repair<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Sean Michael Ragan<br \/>\nWe have covered a lot of bike-related content over the years, and a lot of bike-repair-related content. Trouble is, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a separate repairs-only category, so assembling this round-up required manual cherry-picking from the many pages of our Bicycle category archive. I then picked my ten favorites, tabulated the pageviews for each, and counted the days since it was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.makezine.com\/make\/blogs\/blog.makezine.com\/2011\/04\/dial-gauge-stand.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikedenton.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/bikedenton.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/29\/council-candidates-support-bike-accommodations\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Council candidates support bike accommodations<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby bikedenton<br \/>\nI could describe what each of the candidates said last night in support of improved bike accommodations, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bigger story here: 8\/9 spoke in obvious support. One gave sort of a non-answer, but the big picture was that nobody opposed a bike-friendlier Denton. Two years ago, the bike accommodation discussion fell flat during&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyrichardson.org\" href=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyrichardson.org\/2011\/04\/29\/glenville-trail-officially-open\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Glenville Trail Officially Open<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby dickdavid<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5202\/5253626838_ec94fff648_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\nDallas Morning News editor, Bruce Tomaso, has reported that Richardson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Glenville Trail is officially open. This is the trail that runs from Bowser Road, past Glenville, Mark Twain and Huffines Parks, and connects with Duck Creek Trail. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2011\/04\/28\/3035907\/peddle-power-takes-imari-miller.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Pedal power takes Imari Miller and Danny Parks on ride of a lifetime<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBy Dan McGraw<br \/>\nSpecial to the Star-Telegram<br \/>\n&#8230;Miller, who is home-schooled, rides for the Garmin-Chipotle Development Team, a junior team based in Texas that allows him to race all over the country. He is one of two elite junior cyclists in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2011\/04\/30\/real-life-i-finished-cycling-across-america-in-24-days-115875-23094112\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Real life: I finished cycling across America.. in 24 days!<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Adrian Monti, Daily Mirror\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 by Mirror.co.uk<br \/>\nMy cycling companion Sean and I set off from Santa Monica Pier in June last year for the long ride. When we reached Austin, Texas, on my 30th birthday, we were halfway and making good time. But six days later while cycling, we were hit by a truck. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.friscoenterprise.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.friscoenterprise.com\/articles\/2011\/04\/29\/frisco_enterprise\/news\/107.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Riding for MS<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBy Bill Conrad\u00c2\u00a0 Frisco Enterprise<br \/>\nWhen Keith Siebert rides his bike this weekend, it will not be for himself. It will be for his mother and the hundreds of thousands of other Americans who suffer from multiple sclerosis.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.townnews.com\/scntx.com\/content\/articles\/2011\/04\/29\/frisco_enterprise\/news\/107.jpg?resize=425%2C283\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"283\" \/><br \/>\nSiebert and a team of riders from Plano Cycling and Fitness will be among the 4,000 or so who are participating in the Bike MS: Sam&#8217;s Club Ride 2001 on Saturday, an annual bike ride that raises millions of dollars for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.explorehoward.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.explorehoward.com\/news\/83452\/cross-country-biker-goes-distance\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Cross country solo bike ride supports National Multiple Sclerosis Society<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBy Gwendolyn Glenn<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.explorehoward.com\/photographs\/9962_e08fbb2d71b54920ab4ab28f77bc12a1_full.jpg?resize=613%2C464\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"464\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;For Morris, the hardest part of his trip was riding through the hills in Texas, where he said at times he slowed down to 4 mph. Besides the extreme heat, he was glad he did not encounter any major storms, considering that there were numerous tornadoes over the past few weeks in states he passed through. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\/news\/2011\/apr\/29\/mom-deserves-an-adventure-on-her-day\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Mom deserves an adventure on her day<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBy Bill Cullins\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 www.gosanangelo.com<br \/>\nMost of us will honor our moms by spending extra time with them on Mother&#8217;s Day, going out to dinner, sending flowers or buying a special gift. There might be another way to make this Mother&#8217;s Day the most memorable ever.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of the flowers and big meal, you could treat mom to a day of healthy adventure and exercise. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hill Country Bicycle Touring Club Good News Lutheran Church BBQ Chicken\u00e2\u20ac\u201cMother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day Plant Sale Ride Saturday, May 7th:\u00c2\u00a0 Accomplish five things with just one ride!\u00c2\u00a0 Get exercise, enjoy the company of club members, train for the Tour de Cure, treat <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-29th-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":[76,1855,2422,1767,660,2695,2694,2693,2696],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bicycle-across-the-us","tag-bike-denton","tag-bike-ms-sams-club-ride","tag-bike-repair","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-garmin-chipotle-development-team","tag-glenville-trail","tag-good-news-lutheran-church-bbq-chicken","tag-mothers-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-27m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","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=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}