{"id":9491,"date":"2011-08-20T22:07:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T03:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2011-08-20T22:07:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T03:07:33","slug":"texas-bicycling-daily-news-roundup-august-20th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/texas-bicycling-daily-news-roundup-august-20th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Daily News Roundup &#8211; August 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyrichardson.org\/2011\/08\/20\/i-bike-richardson-jason-sprouse\/\" href=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyrichardson.org\/2011\/08\/20\/i-bike-richardson-jason-sprouse\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>I Bike Richardson \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jason Sprouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby dickdavid<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyrichardson.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/jasonsprouse.jpg?w=300&#038;h=448&#038;fit=300%2C448&#038;resize=300%2C448\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"448\" \/><br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for another installment of the I Bike Richardson series, where we put a face on Richardson cyclists. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to introduce, Jason Sprouse. He took the time to answer a few questions about biking. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bikingindallas.com\/bumming-around-virtual-dallas\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bikingindallas.com\/bumming-around-virtual-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Bumming Around Virtual Dallas\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSubmitted by Christopher Curnutt<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikingindallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2011\/08\/basil-KAVAN-II-.jpg?resize=600%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\nI have been profoundly busy with work travel and family vacations and all.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had very little time to blog much and spent less time reading the many cycling blogs of my friends in the Dallas area.\u00c2\u00a0 So recently I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been trying to catch up to see what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up in the virtual Dallas cycling world, so here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a quick round robin of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/seenonthetrain.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/worlds-rarest-univega.html\" href=\"http:\/\/seenonthetrain.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/worlds-rarest-univega.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>The world&#8217;s rarest Univega<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom seenonthetrain.blogspot.com<br \/>\nAbout a year ago, I was riding a lot with my neighbor, Chris, and was extolling the virtues of having an old steel framed bike to turn into a singlespeed, beat around on, etc. I had finally talked him into it (of course, offering my mechanical services, as I am wont to do) and I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/dallascyclechic.com\/2011\/08\/15\/napoleon-bikelot-free-shirt\/\" href=\"http:\/\/dallascyclechic.com\/2011\/08\/15\/napoleon-bikelot-free-shirt\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Napoleon Bikelot\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6&amp; free shirt?!<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby UrbanPedal<br \/>\nLook at that swagger, that stance, those shorts! A shirt for bi-pedaling urban conquerors, no doubt. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never looked at Headline Shirts, you know they have some crazy shit. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re giving away this $20 shirt for $5, today only, for you and only you (okay, you and anyone else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2011\/08\/former_syracuse_doctor_two_fri.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2011\/08\/former_syracuse_doctor_two_fri.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Former Syracuse doctor, two friends finishing 8,141-mile bicycle trip started years ago<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBy Glenn Coin \/ The Post-Standard<\/p>\n<p>Dave Cywinski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legs are tired.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.syracuse.com\/news\/photo\/9914562-large.jpg?resize=380%2C233\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"233\" \/><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve cycled 20 out of the last 22 days, averaging about 100 miles a day,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cywinski, an orthopedic surgeon in Geneva, said Saturday afternoon from Route 20 in Otsego County. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And in those two days off I flew back to Rochester to do some surgeries and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/captjustice.com\/2011\/08\/20\/hot-ride-on-fall-creek-loop\/\" href=\"http:\/\/captjustice.com\/2011\/08\/20\/hot-ride-on-fall-creek-loop\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Hot ride on Fall Creek loop<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Gil Jones \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Musings of Captain Justice<br \/>\nWhether you call these the dog days of summer, the hot days, awful hot days \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or whatever \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.\u00c2\u00a0 A nice cycling trip through the Texas Hill Country makes everything be just alright!\u00c2\u00a0 You just have to start early and try to escape the main heat.<\/p>\n<p>I am fortunate to have a number of good cycling companions in the area.\u00c2\u00a0 I had the same good fortune with motorcycling, but there is something about sweating together that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Bike Richardson \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jason Sprouse by dickdavid It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for another installment of the I Bike Richardson series, where we put a face on Richardson cyclists. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to introduce, Jason Sprouse. He took the time to answer a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/texas-bicycling-daily-news-roundup-august-20th-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":[76,2656,2028,2533,5253,2878,929],"class_list":["post-9491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bicycle-across-the-us","tag-bike-richardson","tag-biking-in-dallas","tag-musings-of-captain-justice","tag-news","tag-old-bicycle","tag-urban-bike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-2t5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491","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=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}