{"id":1824,"date":"2013-07-18T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T19:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2013-07-22T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:23:37","slug":"bicycle-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/bicycle-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BikeWhereToUse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1802\" title=\"BikeWhereToUse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BikeWhereToUse-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BikeWhereToUse-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BikeWhereToUse.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As more and more people realize the damage using a car does to our <a href=\"http:\/\/greenliving.nationalgeographic.com\/car-pollution-affect-environment-ozone-layer-20133.html\">environment<\/a> and to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-PD4wEIMLv18\/T_KHX24dp7I\/AAAAAAAAAbY\/AvnAyDTOzd0\/s640\/Bike%2Band%2BCar.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/stuartwalpole.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/this-one-runs-on-fat-and-saves-you.html&amp;h=400&amp;w=400&amp;sz=25&amp;tbnid=z-MCS24aSB_qrM:&amp;tbnh=81&amp;tbnw=81&amp;zoom=1&amp;usg=__CYbfuxofAqPqyxebtwMAD4hbzpg=&amp;docid=iW7rCVXQohmUrM&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=4US2UeSkIaeD0QH94IDQCg&amp;ved=0CDwQ9QEwAw&amp;dur=1081\">wallets<\/a> bicycling gets a better press in spite of all the discomfort we associate with it. And wait until you actually get on one: the freedom is hard to describe to someone who commutes by car.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why we will talk about bicycle maintenance again Saturday, July 27, from 5 to 7 pm (I pushed it later toward the evening so it is not so hot&#8230;) at Gabor&#8217;s <a href=\"..\/projects\/building-community-with-bicycles\/\" target=\"NewWindow\">Neighborhood Bicycle Resource Center<\/a>, 44 Beston street in the framework of another Transition Amherst Reskilling workshop. As usual the workshop is free, bring yourself and your questions. If you bring your bike we will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/bicycle-maintenance-lubrication\/\">oil it too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/bicycle-maintenance-lubrication\/\">Lubrication<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/adjusting-the-adjustables\/\">Adjusting the Adjustables<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/adjusting-the-adjustables-ii\/\">Adjusting the Adjustables II.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Special Note:<\/span><br \/>\nThis time please let me know if you are coming via my <a href=\"mailto:gaborzol@gmail.com\">email<\/a>: A local CSA, <a href=\"http:\/\/manyhandsfarmcorps.com\/?page_id=84\">Many Hands<\/a>, will bring all their interns, so we already have a sizable group!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more and more people realize the damage using a car does to our environment and to our wallets bicycling gets a better press in spite of all the discomfort we associate with it. And wait until you actually get &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/bicycle-maintenance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cargobicycling","category-reskillingworkshops"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}