{"id":2311,"date":"2010-04-07T21:23:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2010-04-07T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:23:22","slug":"monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=2311","title":{"rendered":"Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel came into work yesterday and pointed my eyes at this thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vassagocycles.com\/fisty.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"vassago fisticuffs\" src=\"http:\/\/vassagocycles.com\/images\/frames\/fisty_main2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Vassago Fisticuff. I guess the small text under the big text in that picture kinda explains it, but it&#8217;s still confusing. It takes 700c wheels, but can run 650b with wider tyres. It takes disc brakes, or rim brakes. Goes geared, SS or fixed. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;d work with drops, flats or risers. I really don&#8217;t really get it, but I do know that as soon as I saw that picture I decided I want one. It may jsut be the bike-hoarder that lurks just below the surface in me, or maybe it&#8217;s all this stickin-it-to-the-man that <a href=\"http:\/\/startslowgetslower.blogspot.com\/\">Matt <\/a>and Ben have been doing lately. Either way, it gets me a little hot under the collar. It&#8217;s been belting down with rain here all afternoon, and that really looks like the kind of bike that should be thrashed in the mud.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, fairly pointless post, but maybe someone will like it and buy one, then they can bring it to the shop and I can take it for a ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel came into work yesterday and pointed my eyes at this thing&#8230; It&#8217;s a Vassago Fisticuff. I guess the small text under the big text in that picture kinda explains it, but it&#8217;s still confusing. It takes 700c wheels, but can run 650b with wider tyres. It takes disc brakes, or rim brakes. Goes geared, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=2311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311"}],"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=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}