{"id":545,"date":"2008-06-29T21:01:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T11:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2008-06-29T21:01:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T11:01:05","slug":"hardtails-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Hardtails rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having a long running discussion with Mischa about the merits of hard tails for thrash sessions. We&#8217;ve sat and watched the &#8216;Hard Tails Rule&#8217; section in &#8216;Earthed 3&#8217;,\u00a0where Peaty and another rider slay English back-wood trails on zero inches of\u00a0rear travel, mightly inspiring stuff.. A recent issue of Dirt Mag (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtmag.co.uk\/\">www.dirtmag.co.uk<\/a>) sung the praises of hard tail thrashing.. This is a hymn book I&#8217;m happy to sing from, I especially love the pslam &#8216;Down and Out on a Hardtail&#8217;.. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtmag.co.uk\/features\/down-and-out-on-a-hardtail\">http:\/\/www.dirtmag.co.uk\/features\/down-and-out-on-a-hardtail<\/a>) Personally, I love the connected feel a hardtail gives you with the ground.. especially if it&#8217;s made of steel. Throw a 140mm fork on a steel hard tail frame, a beefy wheelset and some wide tyres and you have a ready made recipy for fun. Anyway, when I came across\u00a0the new NS Society frame.. well, I fell in love.. \u00a0As my esteemed college is in the market for a new bike ..and taking into consideration our earlier conversations, I felt THIS bike needed a BnC post just to throw in another opinion..<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nssociety.jpg\" title=\"nssociety.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nssociety.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"nssociety.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22288.jpg\" title=\"22288.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22288.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"22288.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/560a15f691f07a243ff57b45151a374e.jpg\" title=\"560a15f691f07a243ff57b45151a374e.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/560a15f691f07a243ff57b45151a374e.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"560a15f691f07a243ff57b45151a374e.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pbpic1811856.jpg\" title=\"pbpic1811856.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nssociety.jpg\" title=\"nssociety.jpg\"><\/a>So Pringle? Yes??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having a long running discussion with Mischa about the merits of hard tails for thrash sessions. We&#8217;ve sat and watched the &#8216;Hard Tails Rule&#8217; section in &#8216;Earthed 3&#8217;,\u00a0where Peaty and another rider slay English back-wood trails on zero inches of\u00a0rear travel, mightly inspiring stuff.. A recent issue of Dirt Mag (www.dirtmag.co.uk) sung the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=545\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hardtails rule&#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\/545"}],"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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}