{"id":47,"date":"2007-07-25T01:23:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2007-07-25T01:25:20","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T15:25:20","slug":"spitnpolish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Spit’n’polish"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you really want to know your bike back to front, from bottom bracket to top tube, spokes to seat post, there’s only one way to do it. Nothing is quite the same as doing it yourself. Piece by piece, bit by bit. Everything scrounged, Ebay’d, bargained and found before being lovingly scrubbed, cleaned and polished into a machine with no twin, neither on the streets nor in your heart.<\/p>\n

\"Cleaning<\/p>\n

Is started with a $50 frame and ended as a chrome beauty. In between was a hell of a lot of waiting. The results are always worth it.<\/p>\n

Pictures of Nic’s track bike coming soon, after the grit and grime of the streets has been cleaned off it again and it’s fit for some glamour shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you really want to know your bike back to front, from bottom bracket to top tube, spokes to seat post, there’s only one way to do it. Nothing is quite the same as doing it yourself. Piece by piece, bit by bit. Everything scrounged, Ebay’d, bargained and found before being lovingly scrubbed, cleaned and … Continue reading “Spit’n’polish”<\/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\/47"}],"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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}