{"id":149,"date":"2006-11-25T18:25:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T23:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/25\/my-lbs-and-the-cic\/"},"modified":"2006-11-25T18:25:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T23:25:13","slug":"my-lbs-and-the-cic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/25\/my-lbs-and-the-cic\/","title":{"rendered":"My LBS and the CIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My local bike shop is <a href=\"http:\/\/revolutioncycles.com\/\">Revolution Cycles<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Good shop, good people.\u00c2\u00a0 A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtop.com\/?nid=116&#038;sid=984766\">WTOP story<\/a>, however, reminds me of my one great disappointment with them.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, Mr. Bush and I have our bikes serviced at the same store &#8211; I most recently saw his Trek there after he ran into someone and broke the guy&#8217;s leg in Scotland.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ve also got what I thought was an extra that he gave them (with Presidential seals and everything).\u00c2\u00a0 I tried to get them to sell it to me, but no dice.\u00c2\u00a0 I would have paid a pretty penny for it.\u00c2\u00a0 And then I would have used it for fundraiser rides. &#8220;Sponsor George W. Bush&#8217;s bike in the NOW\/Equality Virginia\/Sierra Club Ride! He won&#8217;t be there, but his machine will &#8211; just like real life!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 But the WTOP story tells\u00c2\u00a0 me that I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to swing it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Misiera said he has turned down offers from collectors of up to $21,000 for his store&#8217;s spare presidential bike.<\/p>\n<div class=\"third_paragraph\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We could probably get $25,000 for it on eBay,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But of course we can&#8217;t sell it. It has the seal of the President of the United States.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah well.\u00c2\u00a0 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- the str_replaces are for WC3 validation --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My local bike shop is Revolution Cycles.\u00c2\u00a0 Good shop, good people.\u00c2\u00a0 A recent WTOP story, however, reminds me of my one great disappointment with them.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, Mr. Bush and I have our bikes serviced at the same store &#8211; I most recently saw his Trek there after he ran into someone and broke the guy&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-dc","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}