{"id":8746,"date":"2011-06-17T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=8746"},"modified":"2011-06-16T23:17:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T04:17:40","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-16th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/17\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-16th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for June 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 19 th Trail Work @ Walnut Creek 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nAustin Ridge Riders
\nSunday, June 19, 2011 – 16:00
\nMore joy for all you sweat hogs!\u00c2\u00a0 Work day this Sunday at Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park, June 19th, from 4-7 pm, then eat. Selective trimming and lopping, with a focus on areas of the trail with heavily vegetated turns that obscure on-coming traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 Selective thinning will allow trail users to know to see who is on the other side!<\/p>\n

Man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best friends<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nwww.peopleforbikes.org
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\nWhile it has traditionally been posed that the dog is man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best friend, we know many of you also reserve that honor for your two-wheeled companion\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyour bicycle. Like a good dog, a good bicycle is quiet, a provider of comfort during rough times, and easy on your carpet. But for those who have both a special canine and a special bicycle in their life, a common dilemma is how to give both of them attention at the same time. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve experimented with this extensively at…<\/p>\n

Houston, Texas works on bike friendliness<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nBy Peter Suciu from Detroit, Michigan
\nHouston, Texas is the largest city in a state known for big things \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the city ranks fourth largest in the US after New York, Los Angeles and Chicago \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and as with many cities its growth occurred without much consideration for bicycles, as a result Houston has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 19 th Trail Work @ Walnut Creek 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. Austin Ridge Riders Sunday, June 19, 2011 – 16:00 More joy for all you sweat hogs!\u00c2\u00a0 Work day this Sunday at Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park, June 19th, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[2293,1756,660,2079],"class_list":["post-8746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-austin-ridge-riders","tag-bike-friendly","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-people-for-bikes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-2h4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746","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=8746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}