{"id":405,"date":"2008-07-09T02:58:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2008-07-09T02:58:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T06:58:42","slug":"8-v-21-gears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/8-v-21-gears\/","title":{"rendered":"8 v 21 gears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I was hella bored earlier today, I rode &#8220;my&#8221; bike, it was relaxing.\u00a0 I have to admit that it was a totally different experience.\u00a0 This bike, while still a hardtail, has a much nicer fork\/front suspension than my older bike, has mechanical disc brakes, and much fatter tires, and it only has 8 gears! Yes, I said 8 gears!! not 18, not 21, not 24, not 27, but 8 gears.\u00a0 There really wasnt much of a difference other than the &#8220;unnatural&#8221; feeling of not having as many gears at my disposal, the actual amount of effort I had to put into pedaling was about the same.\u00a0 It was definately interesting, specially when I realized that one of the reasons I wasn&#8217;t moving as fast as I&#8217;d liked to was because my seat was way too low.<\/p>\n<p>According to my Polar hrm I rode for 1 3\/4 hours and 1000 calories later, I was back at home.\u00a0 I need bigger hills so that I can get my heart rate higher and I can burn more calories.<\/p>\n<p>I took a 2 hour nap earlier, I was fighting it the entire time, but I decided not to fight it in the end, I cannot sleep now.\u00a0 I should&#8217;ve gone bike riding then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I was hella bored earlier today, I rode &#8220;my&#8221; bike, it was relaxing.\u00a0 I have to admit that it was a totally different experience.\u00a0 This bike, while still a hardtail, has a much nicer fork\/front suspension than my older bike, has mechanical disc brakes, and much fatter tires, and it only has 8 gears! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}