{"id":18196,"date":"2015-05-30T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=18196"},"modified":"2015-05-30T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:36:38","slug":"replacement-giro-roc-loc-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/30\/replacement-giro-roc-loc-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacement Giro Roc Loc 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_8614.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/108829-2\/IMG_8614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heading out on what became\u00a0an ill-fated ride\u2020 at River Bends a few days ago the strap on my Giro Xar helmet broke as I was putting it on. I&#8217;d had the helmet for about four years, but I was still disappointed as this essentially made it unusable.<\/p>\n<p>Ready to spend the $110+ on a replacement I was informed by a friend that the strap system (known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xdsC8wv-d-Y\">Giro&#8217;s Roc Loc 5<\/a>) is replaceable, and within a few days\u00a0I had another one, fitted into the helmet, making it ready to use again. It was a bit pricy to purchase via Amazon Prime ($17.99, around MSRP) but at least I had it quickly.<\/p>\n<p>While I would have preferred the strap to not break at all, I&#8217;m really glad\u00a0that I was able to get the helmet working and usable again. It&#8217;s much cheaper to fix something like this than replace it.\u00a0Never forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/thisgreenlife\/1205.asp\">the fourth R<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2020 Three crashes in a little over one lap. First was launching off a roller\/jump wrong, almost hitting a tree, and having to panic stop against a log off the trail. Second was clipping a pedal on a climb and almost going over the bars. Third was being distracted and running into a 2&#8243;\u00a0tree sending myself to the ground on short notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading out on what became\u00a0an ill-fated ride\u2020 at River Bends a few days ago the strap on my Giro Xar helmet broke as I was&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/30\/replacement-giro-roc-loc-5\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Replacement Giro Roc Loc 5<\/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":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196","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=18196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18198,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196\/revisions\/18198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}