{"id":4,"date":"2008-06-03T06:47:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-07-26T22:19:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T03:19:47","slug":"mountain-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Bike!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got myself a mountain bike.  It&#8217;s of course tossed together from the several other discarded bicycles, but it&#8217;ll work for now. . .  The rear rim was about 4&#8243; out of true, Justin straightened that up for me, and I ended up running into a few guys from Budget Bicycle who validated the beat it on the ground until it&#8217;s pretty straight and true it straighter from there method \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc04547.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11\" title=\"Mountain Bike\" src=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc04547-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I headed out to find Quarry Park and try hitting some Madison trails on the mountain bike (rather than the 20&#8243; BMX with no suspension. . .).  I figured I&#8217;d just ride west of Resurrection Cemetary and I should run right into it.  Of course it turns out that Hoyt Park (that I didn&#8217;t know existed) is actually closer west than Quarry Park.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=43.070283,-89.441328&amp;spn=0.010471,0.018797&amp;z=16&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJqzARj-Z8VnW5pkPMLMmZbqrJcYpw\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=43.070283,-89.441328&amp;spn=0.010471,0.018797&amp;z=16&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I found some cools trails in Hoyt, but of course when I got into the park from the trail I turned around to see a big &#8220;NO BICYCLES&#8221; sign  &#8211; sigh -.  While I was riding the gravel path I decided to take one of the periodic offshoots and see where it went.  It looked like the perfect path, it was straight downhill, lots of trees and logs.  I got about 100 feet and I nearly ran into a fence, so I hung a right and followed the path along the fence.  It just kept getting narrower and narrower until I couldn&#8217;t ride the bicycle anymore.  I figured I&#8217;d try dragging it though this section until it got better again &#8211; but it never did.  Turns out the trail was a deer trail that looked like a people trail.  By the time I realized it I was so far along that it would be less work to keep dragging the bike out.<\/p>\n<p>This of course wasn&#8217;t bad, until I broke out of the woods and into a small clearing, and looked up to see a large brick wall with several people staring at me like I was bigfoot bursting out of the woods!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got myself a mountain bike. It&#8217;s of course tossed together from the several other discarded bicycles, but it&#8217;ll work for now. . . The rear rim was about 4&#8243; out of true, Justin straightened that up for me, and I ended up running into a few guys from Budget Bicycle who validated 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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountain-biking","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}