{"id":99130564,"date":"2008-02-22T08:16:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T08:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=99130564"},"modified":"2008-02-22T08:16:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T08:16:04","slug":"lance-armstrong-unveils-his-new-commuting-bike-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=99130564","title":{"rendered":"Lance Armstrong unveils his new commuting bike shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not about the bike sales.<br \/>\nThat from Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, who plans in May to open a bike shop, commuting center, training facility and cafe in a 1950s-era building at the northwest corner of Fourth and Nueces streets.<br \/>\n&quot;This city is exploding downtown. Are all these people in high rises going to drive everywhere? We have to promote (bike) commuting,&quot; Armstrong said Wednesday, gazing up at the towering 360 condos rising next to the site of his new shop. &quot;This can be a hub for that.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nArmstrong said he&#8217;d like to see Austin evolve into a place like Portland, Ore., where biking is part of the culture and people pedal to work, to restaurants and to run errands. &quot;Walk outside, and the streets are lined with bikes<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.austin360.com\/recreation\/content\/recreation\/stories\/2008\/02\/0214bikeshop.html\">https:\/\/www.austin360.com\/recreation\/content\/recreation\/stories\/2008\/02\/0214bikeshop.html<\/a>oldId.20080222081604214<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not about the bike sales. That from Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, who plans in May to open a bike shop, commuting center, training facility and cafe in a 1950s-era building at the northwest corner of Fourth and Nueces streets. &quot;This city is exploding downtown. Are all these people in high rises going &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=99130564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lance Armstrong unveils his new commuting bike shop&#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-99130564","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\/99130564","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=99130564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99130564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99130564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99130564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99130564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}