{"id":104,"date":"2008-07-12T20:35:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T00:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2008-07-12T22:04:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T02:04:23","slug":"river-bends-spa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/12\/river-bends-spa\/","title":{"rendered":"River Bends Spa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_1842.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/75168-2\/IMG_1842.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 alt=\"My legs with dirt lines after they spent a while being sprayed with mud, dirt, and water at River Bends while trying out The Captain Control tires.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/12\/the-captain-control\/\">the new tires<\/a> work well. I rode up to River Bends Park and did two passes on the 5km hiking trail, along with some backtracking to hit the more difficult hills a couple of times. I specifically rode through the most gravely and difficult parts of each of the hills and took sandy corners very quickly and I had no problem maintaining control. The tires are rather difficult when riding on pavement, though.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the path was quite dry, but some parts still had a good bit of standing water. Going through those, along with the sand, led to quite a bit of stuff being thrown up on both me and the bike. After removing my socks it almost appeared as if I had tan lines, but it was all dirt. Once in the shower it felt like I was exfoliating when first passing the bar of soap over my legs.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s two more photos of my dirty bike:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_1839.jpg.html\">Muddy front derailleur and bottom bracket area.<\/a><br \/>\n&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_1840.jpg.html\">Muddy down tube, bottom bracket shell, cranks, water bottle, etc.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would clean it off, but I&#8217;m hoping to get out to Stony Creek Metropark tomorrow and ride some of the trails there, and I expect it to be equally messy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the new tires work well. I rode up to River Bends Park and did two passes on the 5km hiking trail, along with some&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/12\/river-bends-spa\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">River Bends Spa<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}