{"id":4274,"date":"2009-03-08T18:46:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T22:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2009-03-08T18:46:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T22:46:31","slug":"is-it-about-a-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/is-it-about-a-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"is it about a bicycle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s either a great tribute to the variety of different bicycles that Batavus produces, or a boneheaded lack of standardization in their product line, but I can&#8217;t seem to get a pump from Curbside to fit my bike.<\/p>\n<p>When I test-rode it, it had a Batavus-branded pump. When I got it a week later, no pump. Went back to get a pump; took it home, it was 1cm too short, and would fall out. Took that back. Got a second pump, slightly longer. Took it home; it was 1cm too long. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be any rhyme or reason to this.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as if this is a frame fit pump, where frame size matters. It&#8217;s to fit on lugs on a carrier rack. You would have thought that a sensible bicycle would have had a sensible standard &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s either a great tribute to the variety of different bicycles that Batavus produces, or a boneheaded lack of standardization in their product line, but I can&#8217;t seem to get a pump from Curbside to fit my bike. When I test-rode it, it had a Batavus-branded pump. When I got it a week later, no [&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":[337,1525,225],"class_list":["post-4274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-stuff","tag-batavus","tag-pump","tag-sensible-bicycle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-16W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","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=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}