{"id":8254,"date":"2011-05-08T22:58:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T03:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=8254"},"modified":"2011-05-08T22:58:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T03:58:37","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-8th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/08\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-8th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for May 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/houstonbicycleclub.org\" href=\"http:\/\/houstonbicycleclub.org\/Pages\/RideDetail.aspx?ride_id=56\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>HBC Fulshear Orientation Ride Ride<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAn easy paced 23 mile ride on flat roads with lots of pretty scenery and a cut through on pecan tree covered Hunt Road. Two stores along the way to stop and rest. Road bikes preferable, 8 &#8211; 13 mph. Need helmet, water bottle, patch kit or spare tube. Additional ride to coincide with &#8220;O&#8221; Ride. Ride goes west and south to Orchard and Wallis and is about 36 to 40 miles long. Maps available. If you want to ride with the club, but not with the &#8220;O&#8221; Ride, this is for you.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.austinridgeriders.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.austinridgeriders.com\/event\/national-trails-day\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>National Trails Day<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSaturday, June 4, 2011 &#8211; 09:00 &#8211; 12:00<br \/>\nAustin Ridge Riders<br \/>\nAre you ready for National Trails Day\u00c2\u00ae? Did you know the United States celebrates such an event? Well, we do! Since 1993, the first Saturday of every June is known as National Trails Day, inspiring the public and trail enthusiasts nationwide to seek out, discover, learn about, and celebrate America&#8217;s trail system. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.planobicycle.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planobicycle.org\/index.php?option=com_jevents&amp;task=icalrepeat.detail&amp;evid=11020&amp;Itemid=0&amp;year=2011&amp;month=05&amp;day=15&amp;uid=b96027b82a6b2784891f76bde7178a04&amp;catids=47|48|49\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>May 15 &#8211; Chick Clique Sunday Ramble<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPlano Bicycle Association<br \/>\nGirls only on this 35-40 mile ride with a brunch afterwards at Mimi&#8217;s Cafe, Allen.\u00c2\u00a0 Ride starts and ends at Mimi&#8217;s<br \/>\nOrganized by Liz Francis and Natalie Mathews. Please wear pink!!<\/p>\n<p>Ride starts at 8 am from Mimi&#8217;s parking lot.\u00c2\u00a0 Conversational pace of around 15-17 MPH average speed for the ride. Two routes will be developed: a south route for a south wind and north route for a north wind.\u00c2\u00a0 All riders will travel on the single selected route.<\/p>\n<p>Route map\/cue sheet to follow<br \/>\nLocation : Mimi&#8217;s Cafe, north side of McDermott just west of Hwy 75 in Allen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBC Fulshear Orientation Ride Ride An easy paced 23 mile ride on flat roads with lots of pretty scenery and a cut through on pecan tree covered Hunt Road. Two stores along the way to stop and rest. Road bikes <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/08\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-8th-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":[660,2319,1766,1724],"class_list":["post-8254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-houston-bicycle-club","tag-national-trails-day","tag-plano-bicycle-association"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-298","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254","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=8254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}