{"id":71,"date":"2007-09-12T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T09:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=71"},"modified":"2007-09-12T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T09:18:59","slug":"a-new-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"A New bike ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottusa.com\/gb_en\/category\/194\/speed\" target=\"_blank\">Scott CR1 Pro<\/a> in the window of Evans\u00c2\u00a0 in Spitalfields. <a href=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/10092007071.jpg\" title=\"Ooooh\"><img src=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/10092007071.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Ooooh\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked the look of the bike and the balance of a top-notch carbon frame with good quality (but not top-range) gearing and equipment. My kind of bike. My current bike is a Raleigh Absolute. Aluminium alloy, Shimano gearing. Trusty beast.\u00c2\u00a0 Looks good but starting to look a bit dated. But do I really do enough cycling to justify spending a whopping \u00c2\u00a31400 on a new bike? I&#8217;m not really sure.<\/p>\n<p>Would the new bike make me cycle more? Very definitely. Isn&#8217;t \u00c2\u00a31400 of bike a big risk to have laying around the place though? Yep. What If I prang it ?<\/p>\n<p>My wife says I should buy it if I want it. And that is just not fair. Surely the marriage contract states that she should tell me all the other things we should spend the money on instead. But no, she is letting me buy it. So Now I really don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>To top it all, apparently I could get it on interest-free credit if I buy it online and pay it off at about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalescycles.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=SCTCR1PRO3007\" target=\"_blank\">\u00c2\u00a360 a month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the Scott CR1 Pro in the window of Evans\u00c2\u00a0 in Spitalfields. I&#8217;ve always liked the look of the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=71\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}