{"id":1908,"date":"2006-03-07T01:20:54","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T06:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/50_mph_uphill\/"},"modified":"2006-03-07T01:20:54","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T06:20:54","slug":"50_mph_uphill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/50_mph_uphill\/","title":{"rendered":"50 MPH Uphill!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/2004-Giant-Cypress-SL-4-of-50-XL-Made-27-Speed-Red_W0QQitemZ7222659578QQcategoryZ98084QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\">eBay bicycle auction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s #4 of 50 Made, I have gone 70mph on flat ground, 100mph down hill, 50mph uphill, i have entered this bike in 20 different races and the worst place was 5th<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ha ha.  Very surprising that I haven&#8217;t seen this seller on the winner&#8217;s podium in the Tour de France.<br \/>\nThe  Question &#038; Answer section is also hilarious.  A sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q:   I was wondering if this bike would be able to handle freeway riding? At the types of speed that you mentioned I should easily be able to keep up with freeway traffic but would people want to crash me because of jealously towards my spandex gear.<br \/>\nA:  i have done freeway riding, ppl arent so much of assholes once your up there<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cool.  If I get that bike I can ride on  I-40, and when the traffic backs up, I&#8217;ll simply cruise between the lanes of cars.  Time to fire up the PayPal account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/50_mph_uphill\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to 50 MPH Uphill!\"><p>From an eBay bicycle auction: It&#8217;s #4 of 50 Made, I have gone 70mph on flat ground, 100mph down hill, 50mph uphill, i have entered this bike in 20 different races and the worst place was 5th Ha ha. Very surprising that I haven&#8217;t seen this seller on the winner&#8217;s podium in the Tour de [&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-1908","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\/1908","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=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}