{"id":134334069,"date":"2009-04-04T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134334069"},"modified":"2009-04-04T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T19:01:09","slug":"palo-alto-cyclist-heading-for-boston-on-rare-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134334069","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto cyclist heading for Boston on rare bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Note this is in Bike Baltimore because this ride will be coming through here.]<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/8097_full-1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\nSome people think of bicycles as an occasional way to get around. For Palo Altan Martin Krieg they&#8217;re far more: a full-time mode of transportation and his ticket across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>On May 3, he will begin a 4,000-mile bicycle ride from Palo Alto to Boston, Mass. &#8212; his third cross-nation bike trip. In 1979, he rode a standard upright bike and in 1986 a recumbent bike. He will pass through 25 cities that he hopes someday will become links in a national bikeway.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just any bike he will be riding. With a design that harkens back to the 19th century, his 1891 HiWheel Eagle has a small wheel in the front and a really large one in back \u2014 a reverse of the better-known Pennyfarthing bicycle that Krieg has been riding around Palo Alto for years.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/news\/show_story.php?id=11781\">https:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/news\/show_story.php?id=11781<\/a>oldId.2009040419010979<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Note this is in Bike Baltimore because this ride will be coming through here.] Some people think of bicycles as an occasional way to get around. For Palo Altan Martin Krieg they&#8217;re far more: a full-time mode of transportation and his ticket across the United States. On May 3, he will begin a 4,000-mile bicycle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134334069\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Palo Alto cyclist heading for Boston on rare bike&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134334069","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\/134334069","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134334069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134334069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134334069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134334069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134334069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}