{"id":4278,"date":"2015-05-01T13:37:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T18:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:05:10","slug":"new-bike-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/new-bike-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bike Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4279 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay.jpg\" alt=\"Brad and his new Seven\" width=\"402\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay.jpg 610w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay-400x350.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 85vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New bike day is a special day, even if you spend all day, every day building bikes. Our own Bradford Smith, <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/tag\/the-drifters\/\">Drifter extraordinaire<\/a>, built himself a new bike a few weeks ago, and he&#8217;s got that little kid gleam in his eye ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Never one to dream small dreams, Brad&#8217;s idea was to put together a machine he could race cross country on, and by &#8220;cross country&#8221; of course we mean literally across the country. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transambikerace.com\/\">Trans-Am Bike Race <\/a>leaves June 6th from Astoria, OR and ends in Yorktown, VA.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is the night of final assembly in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mmracing.org\/\">MM Racing<\/a> service course with good friend <a href=\"http:\/\/mmracing.org\/matt.html\">Matt Roy<\/a>, master mechanic and cross-country racing accomplice.<\/p>\n<p>And here is the bike below, ready for a shake out ride, packed for travel. Stay tuned for a lot more updates on this particular adventure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4281 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay21.jpg\" alt=\"Brad's New Bike\" width=\"613\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay21.jpg 613w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay21-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay21-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay21-400x399.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay21-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BradfordNewBikeDay21-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New bike day is a special day, even if you spend all day, every day building bikes. Our own Bradford Smith, Drifter extraordinaire, built himself a new bike a few weeks ago, and he&#8217;s got that little kid gleam in his eye ever since. Never one to dream small dreams, Brad&#8217;s idea was to put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/new-bike-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Bike Day&#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":[628,41,88,403,12,38,23,629],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bradford-smith","tag-friends-of-seven","tag-matt-roy","tag-mm-racing","tag-mm-racing-matt-mo","tag-project-bike","tag-seven-racers","tag-trans-am-bike-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","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=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11771,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/11771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}