{"id":990,"date":"2011-12-19T17:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T22:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.mom\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:38:59","slug":"seven-shop-ride-cross-bikes-on-the-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/seven-shop-ride-cross-bikes-on-the-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"A Seven Shop Ride: Cross Bikes on the Evening Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-991\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Danny-V-Cross-Ride-on-Trails.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-991 size-full\" title=\"Danny V Cross Ride on Trails\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Danny-V-Cross-Ride-on-Trails.jpg\" alt=\"Dan riding his bike in the woods at night\" width=\"232\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Danny-V-Cross-Ride-on-Trails.jpg 232w, https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Danny-V-Cross-Ride-on-Trails-155x300.jpg 155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 85vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny V. Ready to Ride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before the snow flies we&#8217;re trying to get out in the woods as much as we can. Wednesdays often hold the promise of a shop ride on cross bikes, if we can all remember our lights.<\/p>\n<p>This time of year, our local trails are awash in dead leaves. The leaves make traction a more random event and camouflage muddier patches, all of which serves to amplify the fun. Everything that is easy fun on a mountain bike in the daytime becomes squirrely and awesome on a cross bike in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>You can only ever really ride the five square feet of illuminated trail in front of you. Sections you know by heart show sides you wouldn&#8217;t have imagined.<\/p>\n<p>A few nights ago we rolled single file through a trail system just a few miles from the shop, and then did a quick zig-zag over pavement to get to another small system out to the west. We finished with a spin downa nighttime bike path, only a few other hearty cyclists for company. Home in time to microwave some leftovers and put the kids to bed.<\/p>\n<p>-John L.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Before the snow flies we&#8217;re trying to get out in the woods as much as we can. Wednesdays often hold the promise of a shop ride on cross bikes, if we can all remember our lights. This time of year, our local trails are awash in dead leaves. The leaves make traction a more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/seven-shop-ride-cross-bikes-on-the-trails\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Seven Shop Ride: Cross Bikes on the Evening Trails&#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":[37,36],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cross-bikes","tag-shop-rides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12137,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/12137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}