{"id":91,"date":"2012-10-06T00:58:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T00:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/?p=91"},"modified":"2012-10-06T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T01:06:00","slug":"first-commute-on-the-new-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/2012\/10\/first-commute-on-the-new-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"First Commute on the New Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Had to go downtown for a meeting today and decided to give my refurbished bike a spin. First impression: I can go really really fast on this bike! Since the route from West Seattle to downtown consists of about 2 miles of mostly rolling and downhill, then 3 miles of utter flatness, the ride was a breeze. The most uncomfortable part for me was actually the steep downhills. Since I still don’t have a good feel for my braking power using the drop handlebars, I have been largely riding the brakes, to the point where my arms and hands get really strained.<\/p>\n

This was the first ride where I’ve not enjoyed the downhills so much. But the flat stretches…I don’t have a speedometer, but suspect I was going at least 15mph in places, a feat not possible for me with the mountain bike I’ve been riding for over a decade. With today’s sunny skies, I felt exhilarated.<\/p>\n

Coming home was equally fun. Since the lowest gear is not as low as I’m used to, I opted for a less steep climb(SW Avalon to 35th SW) which allowed me to zip right up.<\/p>\n

Perhaps my next adjustment to the bike should be changing out the chainrings for a triple, so I can have more gearing options. This would also require new derailleurs. Maybe during the Bikeworks Intermediate class in November I’ll be able to figure out what to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had to go downtown for a meeting today and decided to give my refurbished bike a spin. First impression: I can go really really fast on this bike! Since the route from West Seattle to downtown consists of about 2 miles of mostly rolling and downhill, then 3 miles of utter flatness, the ride was… Continue reading First Commute on the New Bike<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}