{"id":244400905,"date":"2012-09-29T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244400905"},"modified":"2012-09-29T17:08:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T17:08:25","slug":"motorists-front-of-judea-what-have-the-cyclists-ever-done-for-us-a-la-monty-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244400905","title":{"rendered":"MOTORISTS\u2019 FRONT OF JUDEA: What Have The Cyclists Ever Done for Us? [\u00e0 la Monty Python]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via Roads Were Not Built for Cars<br \/>\nREG: Cyclists have bled us white, the bastards. They don\u2019t pay road tax, they run red lights. And what have they ever given us in return?<br \/>\nXERXES: Pneumatic tyres.<br \/>\nREG: What?<br \/>\nXERXES: Pneumatic tyres.<br \/>\nREG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that\u2019s true. Yeah.<br \/>\nCOMMANDO #3: And ball bearings.<br \/>\nREG: Yeah. All right. I\u2019ll grant you pneumatic tyres and ball bearings are two things that the cyclists have done.<br \/>\nMATTHIAS: And the roads.<br \/>\nREG: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don\u2019t they? But apart from pneumatic tyres, ball bearings, and the roads\u2026<br \/>\nCOMMANDO: Lightweight steel tubing.<br \/>\nXERXES: Chain driven differential gears.<br \/>\nCOMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh\u2026<br \/>\nCOMMANDO #2: Dust-free highways. Tractors. And spark plugs.<br \/>\nCOMMANDOS: Ohh\u2026<br \/>\nREG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.<br \/>\nCOMMANDO #1: And central Government administration of roads.<br \/>\nCOMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah\u2026<br \/>\nFRANCIS: Cars and planes.<br \/>\nREG: Cars and planes?<br \/>\nFRANCIS: Yeah, America\u2019s first car was built by the Duryea brothers: they were bicycle builders first. And powered flight, Reg, that was developed by the Wright Brothers: they owned a bike shop and built bikes.<br \/>\nREG: All right, but apart from the pneumatic tyre, ball bearings, differential gears, roads, motoring, and aviation, what have cyclists ever done for us?<br \/>\n+++++++++++++<br \/>\nREFERENCES&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com\/motorists-front-of-judea-what-have-the-cyclists-ever-done-for-us\/\">https:\/\/www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com\/motorists-front-of-judea-what-have-the-cyclists-ever-done-for-us\/<\/a>oldId.20120929170825990<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Roads Were Not Built for Cars REG: Cyclists have bled us white, the bastards. They don\u2019t pay road tax, they run red lights. And what have they ever given us in return? XERXES: Pneumatic tyres. REG: What? XERXES: Pneumatic tyres. REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that\u2019s true. Yeah. COMMANDO &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244400905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MOTORISTS\u2019 FRONT OF JUDEA: What Have The Cyclists Ever Done for Us? [\u00e0 la Monty Python]&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244400905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244400905","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=244400905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244400905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244400905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244400905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244400905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}