{"id":1085,"date":"2015-03-05T02:58:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T02:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2020-08-23T00:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T00:59:59","slug":"when-theres-no-spokes-to-be-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"When there&#8217;s no spokes to be found!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/?p=1085\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/welded-spoke5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1101\" src=\"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/welded-spoke5-1024x547.jpg\" alt=\"welded spoke\" width=\"566\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/welded-spoke5-1024x547.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/welded-spoke5-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/welded-spoke5.jpg 2012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Breaking 120 spokes on the FN wasn&#8217;t going to ever stop me making it to Belgium, even when the ones I&nbsp; had cut and re-bent, ran out. I had around 50 broken spokes welded together and these got me from Pakistan to the Czech Republic. Some of the hooks on the ends broke, but I had a sufficient number to make it. Never give up I say!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking 120 spokes on the FN wasn&#8217;t going to ever stop me making it to Belgium, even when the ones I&nbsp; had cut and re-bent, ran out. I had around 50 broken spokes welded together and these got me from Pakistan to the Czech Republic. Some of the hooks on the ends broke, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}