{"id":9079,"date":"2011-07-12T23:24:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T04:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=9079"},"modified":"2011-07-12T23:24:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T04:24:56","slug":"texas-bicycling-daily-news-roundup-july-12th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/texas-bicycling-daily-news-roundup-july-12th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Daily News Roundup &#8211; July 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Retro VC Jerseys on Display at Mangia<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nfrom www.violetcrown.org<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.violetcrown.org\/images\/tn_1weohrx5gs1c.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><br \/>\nThanks to longtime VC member Dave Henderson, and sponsor Jeff Sayers of Mangia Pizza, an almost complete set of VC jerseys is now hanging in the front room of Mangia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mesa location. Not only did Dave hold on to jerseys dating back into the &#8217;80s, but somehow he managed to keep them in pristine shape, or at least pristine enough for Tom Paterson to bring them back to life. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s&#8230; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.violetcrown.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.violetcrown.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Cycling \u00e2\u20ac\u201c FM2147E and County Roads to The Narrows and Back \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 30 miles of Hot!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nby donbynum<br \/>\nSaturday morning July 9th came early for me.\u00c2\u00a0 A group of fellow cyclists were to meet on FM 2147 just east of US281, south of Marble Falls at 0800 for an easy-paced ride on some serious hills.\u00c2\u00a0 Six made it out. &#8230;<a title=\"http:\/\/donbynum.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/donbynum.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/13\/cycling-fm2147e-and-county-roads-to-the-narrows-and-back-30-miles-of-hot\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Day camp helps children with Down Syndrome ride bikes<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nNicole Luna,The Shorthorn staff<br \/>\nLearning how to ride a bike can be one of the many new experiences for children. But for a child with Down Syndrome, this milestone can be a challenge.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theshorthorn.com\/images\/stories\/2011\/summer\/week6\/trainingwheels.7.13.11.cth.jpg?resize=400%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nThe Down Syndrome Partnership of Tarrant County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second annual \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lose the Training Wheels\u00e2\u20ac\u009d program on campus began Monday and ends Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Lose the Training Wheels is a national organization that works with local community partners to host five-day camps to teach individuals with disabilities how to independently ride two-wheel bicycles. &#8230;<a title=\"http:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/index.php\/news\/university\/27489-day-camp-helps-children-with-down-syndrome-ride-bikes\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Our beauty, your charm<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nfrom www.dailytexanonline.com<br \/>\nLast week, 25 UT students were hosted by local families for two nights at the halfway point of their bicycling journey from Austin to Anchorage, Ala. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153LIVESTRONG TEXAS 4000, fighting cancer every mile\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is painted on their chase van, which told their story to our community in&#8230; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.dailytexanonline.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytexanonline.com\/opinion\/2011\/07\/12\/our-beauty-your-charm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retro VC Jerseys on Display at Mangia from www.violetcrown.org Thanks to longtime VC member Dave Henderson, and sponsor Jeff Sayers of Mangia Pizza, an almost complete set of VC jerseys is now hanging in the front room of Mangia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mesa <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/texas-bicycling-daily-news-roundup-july-12th-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":[2259,2827,5253,770,2528],"class_list":["post-9079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-don-bynums-blog","tag-down-syndrome","tag-news","tag-texas-4000-for-cancer","tag-violet-crown-sports-association"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-2mr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079","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=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}