{"id":289,"date":"2006-04-07T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2006-04-07T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T22:55:00","slug":"the-wonder-of-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"The wonder of wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/uploaded_images\/power-734453.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/uploaded_images\/power-732487.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It is an oft quoted factoid that humankind has yet to devise a more efficient machine for turning human effort into motion than the bicycle.  Saying this to non-cycling folk is all well and good but does little to place the information in context.  This simple but enlightening set of images from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbicyclerelief.org\/\">World Bicycle Relief<\/a> makes a similar point in a more accessible manner and neatly makes the case for how the simple technology of the bicycle can dramatically transform lives and livelihoods across the globe. <\/p>\n<p>I only mention this because I&#8217;m off to ride my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/59999295@N00\/29000265\/\">Brompton<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeriden.co.nz\/index.php\">local bike shop<\/a> and I want to appear virtuous and enlightened this bright and sunny Saturday morning [removes tongue from cheek].  I&#8217;m going to measure up the knackered forks on my Dawes Discovery (which was mangled by the movers when we emigrated) for replacement.  Once I have sourced the forks from the UK, via Gary, friend and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towerhamletswheelers.org.uk\/\">Tower Hamlets Wheeler<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bicyclemagic.com\/\">Bicycle Magic<\/a>, former local bike shop, I should have the Dawes looking more like it did on a Docklands ride last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/uploaded_images\/dawesdisco-750944.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/uploaded_images\/dawesdisco-746625.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is an oft quoted factoid that humankind has yet to devise a more efficient machine for turning human effort into motion than the bicycle. Saying this to non-cycling folk is all well and good but does little to place the information in context. This simple but enlightening set of images from World Bicycle Relief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}