{"id":389,"date":"2008-03-26T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T23:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2008-03-26T09:03:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T23:03:40","slug":"return-of-the-ken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Return Of The Ken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo_search.php?oid=5896591318&amp;view=all\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-d.ak.facebook.com\/photos-ak-sf2p\/v181\/29\/82\/578179812\/n578179812_749251_5336.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ol&#8217; Ken Self made a few frames back in the day and as you probably know, we&#8217;re big fans. I ride one, Ben owns one, the image up the top is a close-up of one, etc. They&#8217;re brilliant bikes with a great build quality and very sweet geometry. Luckily we keep managing to find more of them!<\/p>\n<p>The latest find comes from John over in Perth, who picked up this beautiful example of Ken&#8217;s Work. A slightly older frame judging by the fork crown, but as sweet as ever. One of the special things about Ken&#8217;s frames is that every example we&#8217;ve seen so far has had hand-painted lettering lovingly applied. No decals here, just paint straight onto the frame. This one&#8217;s no different, with a beautiful white serif outlined in gold and tastefully shadowed. The elegant &#8216;S&#8217; on the head tube is more than worthy of leading the pack around the velodrome.<\/p>\n<p>The bike (and John) is going to be hitting the boards over in Perth soon, so if you&#8217;re from the far West, be sure to keep your eye out for it.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the rest of the detail photos over in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo_search.php?oid=5896591318&amp;view=all\">BnC gallery on Facebook<\/a><\/strong>. Do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ol&#8217; Ken Self made a few frames back in the day and as you probably know, we&#8217;re big fans. I ride one, Ben owns one, the image up the top is a close-up of one, etc. They&#8217;re brilliant bikes with a great build quality and very sweet geometry. Luckily we keep managing to find more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Return Of The Ken&#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\/389"}],"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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}