{"id":133,"date":"2008-08-08T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2008-08-08T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T20:55:00","slug":"first-proper-cycle-on-the-new-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"First proper cycle on the new bikes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The key word here is Ouch! I love the new bike; it looks great, works well and is very fast but why&#8230; OH WHY do racing bikes come with a saddle that resembles the thin edge of a stick. After a few hundred meters I&#8217;d had enough&#8230; but kept going in the hope that the discomfort would fade as time when on. It didn&#8217;t. We cycled a little less than 10 kilometers, and when I got off the bike the relief was instant and overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking part in the Tour Of Kildare 100K on Sunday&#8230; that&#8217;s in 2 days time and yes, I&#8217;m worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key word here is Ouch! I love the new bike; it looks great, works well and is very fast but why&#8230; OH WHY do racing bikes come with a saddle that resembles the thin edge of a stick. After a few hundred meters I&#8217;d had enough&#8230; but kept going in the hope that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}