{"id":84968625,"date":"2007-09-11T10:23:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T10:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=84968625"},"modified":"2007-09-11T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T10:23:45","slug":"what-kind-of-bike-is-right-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=84968625","title":{"rendered":"What kind of bike is right for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Linda Shrieves | Sentinel Staff Writer<br \/>\nWalk into a bike shop today, and it&#8217;s easy to get lost in the choices.<br \/>\nThere are road bikes and hybrid bikes, mountain bikes and comfort bikes. Beach cruisers and commuting bikes. &quot;City path&quot; bikes and touring bikes. Even the most basic bike, the standard beach cruiser, may be operating under a new alias: a lifestyle bike.<br \/>\nConfused? No wonder.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe first steps inside a bike shop can be intimidating, especially for the derailleur-challenged. But the bike industry, which once catered strictly to Lance Armstrong wannabes and the mountain-bike crowd, is today aiming at people who want to love bicycling as they did as children.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/features\/lifestyle\/orl-bikebuying07sep04,0,737408.story?page=1&amp;track=rss\">https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/features\/lifestyle\/orl-bikebuying07sep04,0,737408.story?page=1&amp;track=rss<\/a>oldId.20070911102345616<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Linda Shrieves | Sentinel Staff Writer Walk into a bike shop today, and it&#8217;s easy to get lost in the choices. There are road bikes and hybrid bikes, mountain bikes and comfort bikes. Beach cruisers and commuting bikes. &quot;City path&quot; bikes and touring bikes. Even the most basic bike, the standard beach cruiser, may &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=84968625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What kind of bike is right for you?&#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-84968625","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\/84968625","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=84968625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84968625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84968625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84968625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84968625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}