{"id":832,"date":"2008-05-15T18:13:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T22:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=832"},"modified":"2008-05-15T18:13:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T22:13:37","slug":"bikes-for-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/15\/bikes-for-the-rest-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes for the Rest of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freewheeling Spirit&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/freewheelingspirit.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/outside-magazine.html\">rant<\/a> on the damage that pushing unnecessary bike bling does is spot on.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s definitely a price floor under which you&#8217;re pretty much assuring yourself a poor experience on a bike, but there is absolutely no reason in the world to spend thousands just for a decent and serviceable bike.<\/p>\n<p>(And if you like what Freewheeling Spirit has to say, check out his most excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/bikesfortherestofus.blogspot.com\/\">Bikes for the Rest of Us<\/a> blog (you knew I stole that from somewhere, right?)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freewheeling Spirit&#8217;s rant on the damage that pushing unnecessary bike bling does is spot on.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s definitely a price floor under which you&#8217;re pretty much assuring yourself a poor experience on a bike, but there is absolutely no reason in the world to spend thousands just for a decent and serviceable bike. (And if you [&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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}