{"id":1594,"date":"2005-04-22T10:19:43","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T14:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/nice_wheels\/"},"modified":"2005-04-22T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T14:19:43","slug":"nice_wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/nice_wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seasoned readers of this site have probably gathered that I&#8217;ve been getting back into bicycling after a hiatus.  I rode quite a bit as a kid, and even into high school.  But for whatever reason it took a back seat when I went away to college and then I didn&#8217;t ride much for several years.  Three summers ago I broke out my old ten speed again, and each successive season I&#8217;ve been riding more until I&#8217;ve reached the point now where I&#8217;m awaiting a sexy new bike.<br \/>\nLast year I started sinking a little money into the sport.  When I first started shopping around, I experienced a severe case of sticker shock.  Back in the day (1984), I got my bike for $200.  Suffice it to say that $200 doesn&#8217;t go nearly as far as it used to.  Heck, a real good pair of shoes go for more than that.<br \/>\nSince I&#8217;ve been shopping for more stuff and another bike, I&#8217;ve generally become accustomed to the price level of cycling goods.  But I still get surprised from time to time.<br \/>\nTake a look <a title=\"LIGHTWEIGHT Obermayer Carbon Wheelset\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradocyclist.com\/common\/products\/productdisplay2_v2.cfm?PRRFNBR=36078&#038;CGRFNBR=335&#038;CRPCGNBR=335&#038;CI=1,224,335&#038;TextMode=0\">at the price on these babies<\/a>.  Yes, that&#8217;s just for a couple bicycle wheels.  But they do throw in a pair of free tires.  So I guess it&#8217;s not so bad after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/nice_wheels\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Nice Wheels\"><p>Seasoned readers of this site have probably gathered that I&#8217;ve been getting back into bicycling after a hiatus. I rode quite a bit as a kid, and even into high school. But for whatever reason it took a back seat when I went away to college and then I didn&#8217;t ride much for several years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}