{"id":54,"date":"2007-08-02T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2007-08-02T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T01:20:08","slug":"august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"August!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn, time flies when you&#8217;re riding bikes. Well over half way through the year, it&#8217;s a bit of a worry. Although it does mean summer&#8217;s getting closer. Bikes, BBQs, beer&#8230;let the good times roll I say.<br \/>\nBottles\u00a0 and Chains put in some miles over the weekend, but unfortunately the age old flat battery curse hit my camera and there are no visual memories of the ride. Good times were had though, and those of us on track bikes managed to keep up with the roadies easily enough. More plans for leisurely sprints over the weekend, let us know if you&#8217;d like to join in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lola-build.jpg\" alt=\"Building Lola\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lola started out under a house, gathering dust and rust. Kaos Spurr spotted her and dragged her out, with intent to revive. The whole lot stripped and re-greased. Rust scrubbed off, dirt destroyed. Every piece of chrome polished and polished again. Now she looks even better than new.<\/p>\n<p>The final re-build was accompanied by a few glasses of red and some good tunes, don&#8217;t say we ain&#8217;t civilised &#8217;round these parts!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got another rejuvenation project in the works, hopefully it turns out look half as good as Lola. Full photos to come when I manage to catch up with KS long enough to take some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn, time flies when you&#8217;re riding bikes. Well over half way through the year, it&#8217;s a bit of a worry. Although it does mean summer&#8217;s getting closer. Bikes, BBQs, beer&#8230;let the good times roll I say. Bottles\u00a0 and Chains put in some miles over the weekend, but unfortunately the age old flat battery curse hit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=54\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August!&#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\/54"}],"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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}