{"id":2165,"date":"2005-07-10T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T00:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2007-04-05T06:28:19","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T10:28:19","slug":"search-for-the-sensible-bicycle-pt317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/10\/search-for-the-sensible-bicycle-pt317\/","title":{"rendered":"search for the sensible bicycle, pt317"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curbside.on.ca\/\">Curbside<\/a> on Bloor West today. They have nifty-keen vehicles like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bromptonbicycle.co.uk\/\">Bromptons<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pashley.co.uk\/\">Pashley<\/a> roadsters (like the Tube Rider, sigh), German roadsters from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkclassic.com\/\">Hawk Classic<\/a>, and some frankly over-designed things from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomega.dk\/\">Biomega<\/a>. But what really made me happy is that they&#8217;re about to start importing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batavus.nl\/\">Batavus<\/a> roadsters from the Netherlands. Yay! Sensible bicycles!!<\/p>\n<p>Not having the readies to buy a bicycle, I made do with walking out with a <a href=\"http:\/\/sigg.ch\/\">Sigg<\/a>; Europe&#8217;s equivalent of the ubiquitous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nalgene-outdoor.com\/\">Nalgene<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Curbside on Bloor West today. They have nifty-keen vehicles like Bromptons, Pashley roadsters (like the Tube Rider, sigh), German roadsters from Hawk Classic, and some frankly over-designed things from Biomega. But what really made me happy is that they&#8217;re about to start importing Batavus roadsters from the Netherlands. Yay! Sensible bicycles!! Not [&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],"tags":[337,77,335,225,43],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-stuff","tag-batavus","tag-bike","tag-curbside","tag-sensible-bicycle","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-yV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","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=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}