{"id":672,"date":"2014-07-27T19:28:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T19:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2018-05-02T02:10:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T02:10:38","slug":"a-rare-ride-the-bamboo-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/a-rare-ride-the-bamboo-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare ride, the bamboo bicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/c.o0bg.com\/rf\/image_960w\/Boston\/2011-2020\/2014\/07\/09\/BostonGlobe.com\/Magazine\/Images\/turner070914MAG072714first9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<em>From the Boston Globe&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As told to Kristin D\u2019Agostino July 27, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was 12 when I got my first decent bike. I bought it for $237. I found a 25-mile loop that went along the Maine coast, past farmlands. I would ride 25 miles a day as a 13-year-old, rain or shine.<\/p>\n<p>I was an engineer after college, but it was too much about minutiae; my heart wasn\u2019t in it. I got into doing Web design, but I wasn\u2019t waking up every day thinking about Web usability or strategy. I was waking up thinking let me check out bikes, racing. In 2009, I took a trip to France to do some bike riding by myself in the country. It gave me all this time to reflect. I thought I really have to do something with bikes. I have this knowledge of engineering and this knowledge of bikes.<\/p>\n<p>I had a workshop in the South End for my consulting work, so I brought in some tools and built a prototype&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/magazine\/2014\/07\/26\/bicycle-made-bamboo-erba-cycles-randall-levere-explains\/yfTuBYUTXYbdkfKLB5ekzH\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">See the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Boston Globe&#8230; As told to Kristin D\u2019Agostino July 27, 2014 I was 12 when I got my first decent bike. I bought it for $237. I found a 25-mile loop that went along the Maine coast, past farmlands. I would ride 25 miles a day as a 13-year-old, rain or shine. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erbacycles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}