{"id":189,"date":"2004-03-26T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T15:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2004-03-26T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2004-03-26T15:24:04","slug":"yes-i-used-to-have-an-m5-designed-recumbent-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/26\/yes-i-used-to-have-an-m5-designed-recumbent-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I used to have an M5-designed recumbent bicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/gallery\/bike\/MX_1200_20010724_173847\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/albums\/bike\/MX_1200_20010724_173847.thumb.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Speedliner BlueGlide\" title=\"Speedliner BlueGlide\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPerusing the logs, I find that IP address 195.188.41.154 was searching for info on M5 recumbent bikes. Yes, I had a Speedliner BlueGlide, which was a budget version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m5-ligfietsen.com\/\">M5<\/a> 26\/20.<\/p>\n<p>A fun, fast bike, which I probably sold for too little. Oh well. I do kind of miss it.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland wasn&#8217;t ready for it, though; on different occasions, I was spat on, and another time had &#8220;Your bike&#8217;s pure <em>gay<\/em>, mister!&#8221; yelled after me. And no, that last one wasn&#8217;t a compliment.<\/p>\n<p>It was always interesting gauging the response of groups of teens to it. There would always be a brief pause, then one of the teens would utter either a strongly positive or negative statement. Within seconds, the entire group would be repeating it. Who says that people don&#8217;t display pack behaviour?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perusing the logs, I find that IP address 195.188.41.154 was searching for info on M5 recumbent bikes. Yes, I had a Speedliner BlueGlide, which was a budget version of the M5 26\/20. A fun, fast bike, which I probably sold for too little. Oh well. I do kind of miss it. Scotland wasn&#8217;t ready for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[78,1339],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-stuff","category-general","tag-bicycle","tag-recumbent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-33","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}