{"id":236,"date":"2008-01-22T07:33:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T21:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2008-01-22T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T21:39:32","slug":"grundyundies-new-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Grundyundies new bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-235\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=235\" title=\"grundy2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grundy2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"grundy2.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-234\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=234\" title=\"grundy3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grundy3.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"grundy3.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-233\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=233\" title=\"Beans and Grundalingus\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grundy4.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Beans and Grundalingus\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As promised earlier, here are some better quality\u00a0pics of Mat Grundy&#8217;s new ride. Built (Frankenstein style)\u00a0by the big man himself (with a little help from Grasshopper jnr jnr..). The set up has a few unusual attributes. Ah, note the front hub.. yep, it&#8217;s a BMX hub.. but the hub and rim hole counts didn&#8217;t match so there was a bit of improv wheel building action.\u00a0 ..um, the front fork is an old school 1&#8243;\u00a0touring job.. probably perfect for a man of his stature? The seat post bolt is out of Russ&#8217;s old Repco Superlight.. the stock Soma bolt stripped out on the 1st attempt to tighten it.. Lame. Brake lever courtesy of my Surly emo and until it&#8217;s recent liberation, the brake itself had been living at the bottom of a spare parts box\u00a0@ Treadlies for the past 15 years. Cranks are old Campy mountain bike cranks? WTF? Strange but true. Seems to ride well.. although the pilot did whinge a bit about having to pedal\u00a0ALL the time.. so much for him being a seasoned single speeder.*\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-237\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=237\" title=\"grundy1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grundy1.jpg\" alt=\"grundy1.jpg\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*(I always suspected that single speeding wasn&#8217;t about bikes and was all about the beer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 As promised earlier, here are some better quality\u00a0pics of Mat Grundy&#8217;s new ride. Built (Frankenstein style)\u00a0by the big man himself (with a little help from Grasshopper jnr jnr..). The set up has a few unusual attributes. Ah, note the front hub.. yep, it&#8217;s a BMX hub.. but the hub and rim hole counts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=236\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grundyundies new bike&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/236"}],"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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}