{"id":213,"date":"2010-01-19T06:26:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/01\/19\/100119_netherlandsbikeride\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T06:26:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:26:02","slug":"100119_netherlandsbikeride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/01\/19\/100119_netherlandsbikeride\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;That thang got a hemi?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following video will give you a great idea of what cycling in West Texas is like. Well, apart from the bike paths, trees, snow and ice, and attentive and considerate motorists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This nine minute movie was taken in the Netherlands, where cyclists are first class citizens. The bikes are called &#8220;velomobiles&#8221; &#8211; essentially recumbent trikes with full shells. I imagine they&#8217;re wonderful in cold weather, but I&#8217;d hate to think about pedaling one very far in 100\u00b0 summer heat (of course, to be fair, I&#8217;m not particularly fond of pedaling anything in triple digit heat).<\/p>\n<p>This does make me contemplate the idea of putting a video camera on my bike to document my usual cycling route.<\/p>\n<p>[Video from David Hembrow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hembrow.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/northern-velomobile-ride.html\">&#8220;A View from the Cycle Path&#8221;<\/a> blog; link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recumbentblog.com\/2010\/01\/18\/noordelijke-velomobieltocht-2010-northern-velomobile-ride-2010\/\">The Recumbent Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QTKXZzAS5NY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following video will give you a great idea of what cycling in West Texas is like. Well, apart from the bike paths, trees, snow and ice, and attentive and considerate motorists&#8230; This nine minute movie was taken in the Netherlands, where cyclists are first class citizens. The bikes are called &#8220;velomobiles&#8221; &#8211; essentially recumbent&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/01\/19\/100119_netherlandsbikeride\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;That thang got a hemi?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}