{"id":9402,"date":"2011-08-07T22:50:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2011-08-07T22:50:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T03:50:15","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-7th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-7th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for August 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C12EVPe8wwk&amp;feature=related\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C12EVPe8wwk&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Heart of Texas Catrike Rally and &#8216;Bent Event 2011<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Heart of Texas Catrike Rally and &#039;Bent Event 2011\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C12EVPe8wwk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n2nd Annual Heart of Texas Catrike Rally and 4th annual &#8216;Bent Event. (updated video)<br \/>\nA three-day recumbent bike and trike gathering in beautiful Austin TX, held from April 8-10, 2011. Video shows ride and event footage and interviews.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarcyclists.org\/bike-ride\/touring-tim\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarcyclists.org\/bike-ride\/touring-tim\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Touring with Tim\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Lone Star Cyclists<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nPace: Touring, Fast-Pace<br \/>\nDate: Saturday, August 20, 2011 &#8211; 7:00am<br \/>\nLocation: Lynn Creek Marina, 5700 Lake Ridge Parkway, Grand Prairie, TX<br \/>\nTim Williams will lead us south to Venus, Alvarado, Lillian, and Mansfield with routes of 41, 54, and 61 miles to choose from. Tim always puts together great routes on roads every cyclist can enjoy. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll start at Lynn Creek Marina at Joe Pool Lake and head south from there. This is one of my favorite rides!<br \/>\nRide Leader: Tim Williams 817.602.5240<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/galvestondailynews.com\/story\/249166\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestondailynews.com\/story\/249166\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Bicycle bypass OK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBy Christopher Smith Gonzalez\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Galveston County The Daily News<br \/>\nLEAGUE CITY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d While the initial FM 518 bypass project to alleviate traffic might have hit a snag, one component of that plan, a shared-use bikeway project has gotten a green light.<\/p>\n<p>Council members approved the $4.1 million, 2.3-mile long, shared-use path known as the FM 518 Bypass Bikeway.<\/p>\n<p>The city was nominated by the Texas Department of Transportation to participate in the Transportation Enhancement Program, a federally funded program, in July of last&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.planobicycle.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=362:we-are-lucky-to-have-mark-and-so-is-randal&amp;catid=41:latest&amp;Itemid=148\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planobicycle.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=362:we-are-lucky-to-have-mark-and-so-is-randal&amp;catid=41:latest&amp;Itemid=148\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>We are Lucky to Have Mark (and so is Randall!)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nPlano Bicycle\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0by christo358@hotmail.com (Chris Mathews)<br \/>\nMark (The Medicine Man) Hayes, is a handy chap to have on a ride, as seen here patching up Randall&#8217;s broken collar bone on a recent Tweener ride. The PBA is thankful for Mark&#8217;s dedication and skill. Now Mark, what can you do about that broken frame?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Carrollton Cycling<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEFFECTIVE 08\/05\/11.<br \/>\nDue to Extreme Tempatures<br \/>\nThe New start time for Saturday Downtown Carrollton Gazebo Ride and Sunday Ride from Marsh and Rosemeade is 7:30 AM.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d7Ml7_h_vAk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d7Ml7_h_vAk\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Sunday Bagel Ride Aug 7, 2011.mp4<\/strong><\/span> <\/a><br \/>\nPlano Bicycle<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d7Ml7_h_vAk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart of Texas Catrike Rally and &#8216;Bent Event 2011 2nd Annual Heart of Texas Catrike Rally and 4th annual &#8216;Bent Event. (updated video) A three-day recumbent bike and trike gathering in beautiful Austin TX, held from April 8-10, 2011. Video <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-7th-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":[945,2519,660,2568,2467,1724],"class_list":["post-9402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bicycle-path","tag-carrolton-cycling-club","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-heart-of-texas-catrike-rally","tag-lone-star-cyclists","tag-plano-bicycle-association"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-2rE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402","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=9402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}