{"id":106001444,"date":"2008-05-11T20:50:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T20:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=106001444"},"modified":"2008-05-11T20:50:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T20:50:44","slug":"do-yourself-a-favor-install-a-front-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=106001444","title":{"rendered":"Do yourself a favor, Install a front rack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I had a nasty crash while riding home from the bakery with a pie in my hand.  I knew I needed to get some sort of rack for my bike.  I would up welding one in my shop, it&#8217;s made of steel and the platform is 12&quot;x15&quot; with cedar planks.  I can&#8217;t tell you how useful a simple front rack can be.  I&#8217;m not talking about the skinny little bag support touring racks, I&#8217;m talkin&#8217; about a big flatbed rack, big enough for a case of beer or two.  I like to throw an empty cardboard box from a case of beer and fill it with groceries, or veggies from the farmers market.  Bolt one on your bike and I guarantee you won&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of these ready made options:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.velo-orange.com\/voporteurrack.html\">https:\/\/www.velo-orange.com\/voporteurrack.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cetmaracks.com\/\">https:\/\/www.cetmaracks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcomp.com\/\">https:\/\/www.paulcomp.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waldsports.com\/index.cfm\/baskets.html\">https:\/\/www.waldsports.com\/index.cfm\/baskets.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>oldId.20080511205044808<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I had a nasty crash while riding home from the bakery with a pie in my hand. I knew I needed to get some sort of rack for my bike. I would up welding one in my shop, it&#8217;s made of steel and the platform is 12&quot;x15&quot; with cedar planks. I can&#8217;t tell &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=106001444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do yourself a favor, Install a front rack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106001444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106001444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106001444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106001444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106001444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106001444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106001444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}