{"id":154,"date":"2008-06-27T15:55:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T23:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-06-27T15:55:34","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T23:55:34","slug":"bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2008\/06\/27\/bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>So I bought a new bike today off craigslist. It’s a Red ’85 Schwinn Sprint (Taiwan (Giant?)), about 63cm from the seat post to center of the bottom bracket. The old bike, a Blue ’84 Schwinn World (More Taiwan) is about 53cm measured in the same manner, so it’s a much bigger frame. The new bike is also a single speed (freewheel, not fixed). I’m much happier with the size, plus it has aluminum wheels. Getting a new bike was one part the old frame being small, and a second part having pretty well destroyed the ancient rear steel rim on the World.<\/p>\n

It’s got a few modifications by the guy I bought it from. He said he built the wheels, cut the handlebar and the likes, causing new brake levers to go along with it. I didn’t ask everything he had done. I put new pedals on it today because the ones he gave me were a little shifty and difficult to flip up-right. And the pads were making a terrible racket so I put some different brake pads on. I’ll probably ride it at CM today with tda. We’ll see how I feel about the single speed bit. Despite fixies being super popular in Seattle, I usually don’t know where I’m going and run into some pretty awesomely steep hills. Plus I don’t think that it’ll be geared as high as I want for the majority of the ride between Georgetown and downtown.<\/p>\n

Good thing we have a garage in Georgetown, I think we have seven bikes new between the three of us. Time for more hangers I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I bought a new bike today off craigslist. It’s a Red ’85 Schwinn Sprint (Taiwan (Giant?)), about 63cm from the seat post to center of the bottom bracket. The old bike, a Blue ’84 Schwinn World (More Taiwan) is about 53cm measured in the same manner, so it’s a much bigger frame. The new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}