{"id":33758466,"date":"2006-01-26T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T17:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=33758466"},"modified":"2006-01-26T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T17:21:06","slug":"rocket-on-two-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=33758466","title":{"rendered":"Rocket on two wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"157\" height=\"120\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/20060126172106183_1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><b>Engineer&#8217;s bike goes 0 to 60 mph in five seconds<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In place of synthetic rubber fuel, however, the bike uses ordinary roofing tar. To ignite it, Pickens placed a model-rocket motor inside the engine. A button on the handlebar fires the model-rocket motor, which in turn sets off Pickens&#8217;s larger motor by lighting the roofing-tar fuel.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/01\/24\/rocket.bike\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/01\/24\/rocket.bike\/index.html<\/a>oldId.20060126172106183<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineer&#8217;s bike goes 0 to 60 mph in five seconds In place of synthetic rubber fuel, however, the bike uses ordinary roofing tar. To ignite it, Pickens placed a model-rocket motor inside the engine. A button on the handlebar fires the model-rocket motor, which in turn sets off Pickens&#8217;s larger motor by lighting the roofing-tar &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=33758466\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rocket on two wheels&#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-33758466","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\/33758466","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=33758466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33758466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33758466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33758466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33758466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}