{"id":3372,"date":"2008-09-26T06:45:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T11:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2009-04-10T08:12:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T13:12:46","slug":"while-bike-commuting-is-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3372","title":{"rendered":"While Bike Commuting Is Fun&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I can see where things could <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/cars\/2008\/09\/worlds-fastest.html\">improve even more<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sam Whittingham is the fastest cyclist on the planet, having pedaled his sleek recumbent bicycle to a stunning 82.3 mph to claim the world record for a human-powered vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The bike-builder from British Columbia bested his previous record of 81.02 mph during a picture-perfect run through the desert during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisil.recumbents.com\/wisil\/whpsc2008\/speedchallenge-2008.htm\"><font color=\"#007ca5\">World Human Powered Speed Challenge<\/font><\/a> outside Battle Mountain, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the one hand, it&#8217;s terrifying, but also completely exhilarating, Whittingham, who&#8217;s won the competition every year since its inception six years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/vancouversun\/news\/westcoastnews\/story.html?id=c3e2ca28-4b6d-4d8e-83f3-d78a11364232\"><font color=\"#007ca5\">told the Vancouver <em>Sun<\/em><\/font><\/a> after taking home the $26,748 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recumbents.com\/decimach\/default.htm\"><font color=\"#007ca5\">deciMach Prize for Human-Powered Speed<\/font><\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s like going down the steepest hill you can find on your bike, but you get to do that all the time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That bike plus Ramsey Hill = world of fun\/hurt\/whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I can see where things could improve even more: Sam Whittingham is the fastest cyclist on the planet, having pedaled his sleek recumbent bicycle to a stunning 82.3 mph to claim the world record for a human-powered vehicle. The bike-builder from British Columbia bested his previous record of 81.02 mph during a picture-perfect run through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}