{"id":5901,"date":"2010-10-29T23:38:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T03:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2010-10-29T23:38:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T03:38:27","slug":"test-riding-the-bixi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/test-riding-the-bixi\/","title":{"rendered":"Test-riding the Bixi"},"content":{"rendered":"

BIXI Toronto<\/a> had a demo station outside MEC<\/a> today. They had a few slightly beat-up (I suspect, ex Montreal) bikes on display at a station and for test riding.<\/p>\n

\"\"I checked out one the bikes for a ten minute test ride. For such a solid bike, I was impressed with its swiftness. You won’t find yourself hopping curbs, but the big smooth tyres roll fast.<\/p>\n

\"\"The bike’s pretty sensible, with a fully guarded chain, guards, dynamo lights and a front carrier.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A clever bash guard protects the hub gear settings<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The pointy nose at the front locks into the Bixi station:<\/p>\n

\"\"All the controls are where you’d expect them:<\/p>\n

\"\"And a graduated seatpost for us tall forgetful types:<\/p>\n

\"\"The one thing I was disappointed with was the brakes. My bike<\/a> has similar Shimano units. They’re a bit gentle, but they do stop you. The ones on the loaner bike brought back memories of trying to stop in the rain on my steel-rimmed paperboy bike.<\/p>\n

Still, I’m really looking forward to Bixi arriving in the city next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BIXI Toronto had a demo station outside MEC today. They had a few slightly beat-up (I suspect, ex Montreal) bikes on display at a station and for test riding. I checked out one the bikes for a ten minute test ride. For such a solid bike, I was impressed with its swiftness. You won’t find […]<\/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":[77,1998,2228,225,43],"class_list":["post-5901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-stuff","tag-bike","tag-bikeshare","tag-bixi","tag-sensible-bicycle","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1xb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901","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=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}