{"id":2010,"date":"2005-04-02T12:06:51","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T17:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2005-04-02T12:07:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-02T17:07:42","slug":"a-sensible-bike-from-a-car-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/a-sensible-bike-from-a-car-company\/","title":{"rendered":"a sensible bike from a car company?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flipping through the <a href=\"http:\/\/hedonics.com\/\">Hedonics<\/a> fallout (you know, the slick catalogue selling semi-useful battery-operated tat that falls out of your weekend newspaper; <em>cf<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharperimage.com\/\">Sharper Image<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovations.co.uk\/\">Innovations<\/a> and&nbsp;&mdash; for both of you that remember it&nbsp;&mdash; Scotcade) I see the <a href=\"http:\/\/cadillacbicycles.com\/av8.0i.html\">Cadillac Bicycles AV8.0i<\/a>. It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve seen hub gears, hub brakes and a full chainguard on a featured bike.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I could swap the full suspension and back rest (which looks more like legal means to prevent the Enormous Midwestern Arse from subsuming the saddle, akin to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheldonbrown.com\/gloss_l.html#lawyer\">lawyer lips<\/a>) for mudguards and a carrier rack, but it&#8217;s heading towards the <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1783\">sensible bicycle<\/a>. And I know it&#8217;s not really a product of <a href=\"http:\/\/gm.com\/\">General Motors<\/a> (whose company slogan currently appears to be <em>losing money, hand over fist<\/em>), but a licensed product of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentbicycles.com\/\">Kent Bicycles<\/a>. But if car companies feel they need to license their premium brands to anonymous Taiwanese-built roadsters, maybe something good is happening after all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flipping through the Hedonics fallout (you know, the slick catalogue selling semi-useful battery-operated tat that falls out of your weekend newspaper; cf Sharper Image, Innovations and&nbsp;&mdash; for both of you that remember it&nbsp;&mdash; Scotcade) I see the Cadillac Bicycles AV8.0i. It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve seen hub gears, hub brakes and a full chainguard on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[9,4],"tags":[77,1940,85,81],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-stuff","category-cars-suck","tag-bike","tag-cadillac","tag-car","tag-sensible"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-wq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","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=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}