{"id":3449,"date":"2011-05-20T22:50:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T02:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2011-05-20T22:50:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T02:50:35","slug":"i-like-this-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/i-like-this-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"I Like This Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/salsa_el_mariachi\/P5201348.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/97165-2\/P5201348.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 title=\"Detail of the dirty frame of the Salsa El Mariachi. I like this bike, particularly with the rigid fork.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today was the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/salsa_el_mariachi\/\">Salsa El Mariachi<\/a>&#8216;s first trail ride, and it went well. Riding all the single track at Stony Creek and the two hardest climbs was great, and the rigid fork played a huge part of it. Being fully rigid and a single speed this bike feels completely different from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/titus_racer_x_29er\/\">Titus<\/a>, but in a good way. It fits me better than the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/voodoo_dambala\/\">VooDoo Dambala<\/a> did and is the most comfortable rigid bike I&#8217;ve ridden. While not something that I&#8217;d set out for 40 &#8211; 60 mile rides on (at least not as it&#8217;s currently set up), it&#8217;s really fun on trails and I can see myself riding this quite a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the Salsa El Mariachi&#8216;s first trail ride, and it went well. Riding all the single track at Stony Creek and the two hardest&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/i-like-this-bike\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Like This Bike<\/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-3449","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\/3449","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=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}