{"id":1663,"date":"2009-08-01T18:15:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T07:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2009-08-01T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T07:15:22","slug":"my-favourite-bike-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=1663","title":{"rendered":"My favourite bike (EVER)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1664 aligncenter\" title=\"steamroller1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steamroller1.jpg\" alt=\"steamroller1\" width=\"453\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steamroller1.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steamroller1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 85vw, 453px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1665 aligncenter\" title=\"steamroller2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steamroller2.jpg\" alt=\"steamroller2\" width=\"435\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steamroller2.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steamroller2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 85vw, 435px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1666 aligncenter\" title=\"steamroller3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steamroller3.jpg\" alt=\"steamroller3\" width=\"435\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steamroller3.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steamroller3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 85vw, 435px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is my favourite bike. It&#8217;s the longest serving of my current stable and has been built\u00a0to many different guises. The present incarnation is the best and most practical by far.. My friend Tim has helped me greatly with creating this ride, welding on front and rear pannier mounts to which I added a front end &#8216;Surly Nice Rack&#8217; (Cheers\u00a0Timmy and\u00a0big thanks\u00a0to\u00a0Elvis for the rack hookup). Tim totally inspired the practical nature of this bike and to finish\u00a0a beautiful build I&#8217;d dearly love to purchase a scmidt\u00a0dynamo, but that will have to wait..\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bike has evolved greatly from &#8216;Emo&#8217; to &#8216;Ugly&#8217; to &#8216;Track-attack&#8217; to &#8216;Desert crosser&#8217; and now &#8216;Mr Practical&#8217;. A carton of beer will nicely fit between the 44cm wide bars and the Ortliebs will happily accept another two 6-packs each.. and thanks to the front and rear Cane Creek brakes, I can stop the Steamroller with all this beer weighted on the front end.. another great aspect is the wheelset, it&#8217;s over-built as fk. Surly hubs, champion spokes and deep-v&#8217;s, totally capable of\u00a0taking the weight of 2 cartons and a 82kg Benny. \u00a0No gears or a freewheel to worry about, fixed all the way. Geometery is somewhere between &#8216;road&#8217; and &#8216;track&#8217; which is perfect as I need to race home asap to ensure the beer remains cold.<\/p>\n<p>Fk I love this bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my favourite bike. It&#8217;s the longest serving of my current stable and has been built\u00a0to many different guises. The present incarnation is the best and most practical by far.. My friend Tim has helped me greatly with creating this ride, welding on front and rear pannier mounts to which I added a front &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=1663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My favourite bike (EVER)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}