{"id":4436,"date":"2015-06-08T14:04:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:51:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:51:36","slug":"on-the-road-brad-across-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/on-the-road-brad-across-america\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road – bRad Across America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who knows what inspires\/possesses a young person (or an older one) to race a bike across America? The sheer scale of a ride like that defies understanding. It’s more like an act of faith really, hurling yourself into the void of 4,000 plus miles and a month on the road, believing that the adventure will be worth that super-human effort.<\/p>\n

Maybe we’ll find out when our own Brad Smith gets back from the Trans Am Bike Race<\/a>, which started this weekend in Astoria, OR. The Trans Am follows the route of the 4,233 mile Trans America Trail<\/a> between Astoria and Yorktown, VA. This is a self-supported event, so the right bike set-up is important.<\/p>\n

\"Brad's<\/a>
Here is Brad’s Evergreen SL, ready for travel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Summit<\/a>
McKenzie Pass, in central Oregon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ll be following Brad as he rolls east<\/a>. You can check his Instagram<\/a>, too, for photo updates from his adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who knows what inspires\/possesses a young person (or an older one) to race a bike across America? The sheer scale of a ride like that defies understanding. It’s more like an act of faith really, hurling yourself into the void of 4,000 plus miles and a month on the road, believing that the adventure will … Continue reading “On the Road – bRad Across America”<\/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":[364,365,759,23,43,629],"class_list":{"0":"post-4436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-evergreening","7":"tag-on-the-road","9":"tag-seven-racers","10":"tag-team-seven-cycles","11":"tag-trans-am-bike-race"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","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=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11913,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions\/11913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}