{"id":324,"date":"2008-02-25T07:32:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T21:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2008-02-25T07:34:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T21:34:20","slug":"cyclo-cross-pfft-4x-nah-fixed-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Cyclo-cross? Pfft! 4X?? Nah.. Fixed-cross!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-323\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=323\" title=\"Turnerburner &amp; Beans.. Fixed-cross?\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fixedcross.jpg\" alt=\"Turnerburner &amp; Beans.. Fixed-cross?\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Revolutionary? Yes. Practical? No.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;&#8217;Fixed-cross&#8217; was born on sunday..\u00a0the product of an unholy matrimony between a Mountain-cross (or 4X if you prefer) track and a fixed gear bicycle.. The concept emerged from the post boozy friday night minds of four Bottles and Chains riders after watching Danger-Tim roll the Glenorchy Mountain-cross course on his XC bike.. It was suggested that his effort was a tad &#8216;blousy&#8217; and that we could rail the track faster on our fixies.. ah, and yes, we did attempt to prove this point. The Mountain-cross course was ridden fixed three times, each time a tad faster than the last but just let me state.. no land speed records were being broken. Is this the start of something new? I doubt it.. but at least we&#8217;re keeping those BMX&#8217;esque &#8216;Mash-style&#8217; fixed riders honest with a bit of Tasmanian dirt!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">(oh god.. who let me touch a key-board pre 9am monday morning sans coffee??)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolutionary? Yes. Practical? No.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;&#8217;Fixed-cross&#8217; was born on sunday..\u00a0the product of an unholy matrimony between a Mountain-cross (or 4X if you prefer) track and a fixed gear bicycle.. The concept emerged from the post boozy friday night minds of four Bottles and Chains riders after watching Danger-Tim roll the Glenorchy Mountain-cross course on his XC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cyclo-cross? Pfft! 4X?? Nah.. Fixed-cross!!&#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\/324"}],"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=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}