{"id":80342087,"date":"2007-07-19T21:14:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T21:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=80342087"},"modified":"2007-07-19T21:14:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T21:14:47","slug":"high-end-pedals-to-the-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=80342087","title":{"rendered":"High-end pedals to the metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY<br \/>\nSAN FRANCISCO<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBicycles represent a $5.8-billion-a-year business; an estimated 43 million Americans ride with some frequency, according to the National Bicycle Association. Today, 99.3% of bicycles sold in the USA are imported, largely from factories in China and Taiwan.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFor many, a super-light bike is the holy grail. You get an instant appreciation for Parlee&#8217;s feathery frames when you consider that a light bike hovers around 17 pounds. Tour de France bikes (by regulation) weigh in at just over 14 pounds; some Parlees have rung in at just over 9 pounds.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nYou might pay $6,000 for our bikes when all is said and done, but we&#8217;re a cheap date compared to a Harley-Davidson&quot; motorcycle, which can easily top $20,000, Schwinn says. &quot;We keep stretching in what we can build, and the customers just keep coming with us.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/lifestyle\/2007-07-15-bikes_N.htm\">https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/lifestyle\/2007-07-15-bikes_N.htm<\/a><br \/>\noldId.20070719211447321<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO<\/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-80342087","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\/80342087","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=80342087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80342087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80342087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80342087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80342087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}