{"id":417,"date":"2008-04-02T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T04:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2008-04-02T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T05:29:50","slug":"bugs-and-itches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Bugs and itches."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since reading Dave Cooper’s article, ‘The guy that rode over the Himilaya’s on a singlespeed ..and lived’ <\/em><\/strong>in issue two of ‘One Mag’<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0the idea\u00a0of cycle touring on my fixie has been itching about\u00a0in the back of my brain. Meeting Canadian Dave and hearing of his fixed touring exploits over the Otways and across the Central Plateau only further fuelled the fire… and now the question that constantly bugs me is: “could you cycle tour on a fixie across\u00a0New Zealands South Island?”<\/p>\n

<\/a>I emailed Dave McCaig for his opinion on the subject and he suggested ‘no’.. Nigel Rushton, the author of ‘Pedallers Paradise – NZ’s South Island’<\/strong><\/em> reckon’s maybe, pending the pedaller’s sanity (or lack there-of).. Seeking further opinion, I searched old Sheldon Brown’s site for guidance. Here’s what I found:<\/p>\n

“Singlespeed touring is not as goofy an idea as it might sound at first blush – if you’re not in a hurry and value simplicity and reliability, a singlespeed is eminiently tourable. Yes, you might have to get off and walk up a few hills, but that’s hardly a tragedy, in fact sometimes it can be a nice change of pace! If you are in a hurry, why are you on a bicycle?” <\/em>– Sheldon Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since reading Dave Cooper’s article, ‘The guy that rode over the Himilaya’s on a singlespeed ..and lived’ in issue two of ‘One Mag’\u00a0the idea\u00a0of cycle touring on my fixie has been itching about\u00a0in the back of my brain. Meeting Canadian Dave and hearing of his fixed touring exploits over the Otways and across the Central … Continue reading “Bugs and itches.”<\/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\/417"}],"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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}