{"id":3192,"date":"2014-08-14T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T21:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2020-09-14T16:20:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:20:30","slug":"tbt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/tbt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"#TBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/6a00d8354dc5ac69e201053648dcf8970c-320wi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3193 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/6a00d8354dc5ac69e201053648dcf8970c-320wi.jpg\" alt=\"Donut race\" width=\"320\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/6a00d8354dc5ac69e201053648dcf8970c-320wi.jpg 320w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/6a00d8354dc5ac69e201053648dcf8970c-320wi-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this vintage photo, Rob explains the rules for the now infamous donut race, an event from our bygone days that required participants to circumnavigate the shop floor.<\/p>\n<p>The best rule was that you couldn&#8217;t cross the finish line until your donut was completely eaten. <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/people\/matt-okeefe.php\">Certain Seveneers <\/a>would have an advantage here, fast on a bike and able to choke down a donut in 2 seconds flat. Fearlessness was also key when cornering hard around a 2-ton Bridgeport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/essence-of-donut-race.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3194 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/essence-of-donut-race-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"trying to eat a donut while laughing\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/essence-of-donut-race-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/essence-of-donut-race-400x577.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/essence-of-donut-race.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 85vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this vintage photo, Rob explains the rules for the now infamous donut race, an event from our bygone days that required participants to circumnavigate the shop floor. The best rule was that you couldn&#8217;t cross the finish line until your donut was completely eaten. Certain Seveneers would have an advantage here, fast on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/tbt-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#TBT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[327,317,326],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donut-race","tag-tbt","tag-the-early-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12219,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/12219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}