{"id":19,"date":"2007-07-04T13:23:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T03:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2007-07-04T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T03:23:13","slug":"wash-it-all-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Wash it all away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rainy-day.jpg\" alt=\"Misty hills\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Photo: Out the back door at BnC HQ<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I don&#8217;t mind a bit of rain, it makes for nice scenery and keeps things interesting. It&#8217;s also great when you can sit in front of the heater and listen to it on a tin roof. Pity it can make for a nasty bike ride.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to bikes (and all things in general), we&#8217;re pretty positive here at BnC. No elitism, no arrogance, just a pure, passionate love of anything with two wheels and pedals. If you&#8217;re riding it, we like it. That said, there&#8217;s nothing wrong at chuckling at a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Bike Snob NYC\" target=\"_blank\">light-hearted digging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On a more positive note, the articles over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldskooltrack.com\" title=\"Old Skool Track\">Old Skool Track<\/a> have been putting a grin on my face and getting my feet itching for pedals. Lots of musings and writings on the joy of riding fixed, and a love of bikes in general. <a href=\"http:\/\/oldskooltrack.com\/files\/articles.frame.html\" title=\"Old Skool Track Articles\" target=\"_blank\">Go and have a look<\/a>, it&#8217;ll inspire you, I promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Out the back door at BnC HQ \u00a0I don&#8217;t mind a bit of rain, it makes for nice scenery and keeps things interesting. It&#8217;s also great when you can sit in front of the heater and listen to it on a tin roof. Pity it can make for a nasty bike ride. When it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=19\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wash it all away&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}