{"id":54,"date":"2010-01-25T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=53"},"modified":"2013-08-19T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T09:45:18","slug":"recycled-dale-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Recycled &#8216;Dale &#8211; End of an era&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Buddha said &#8216;Everything changes, nothing remains without change&#8217; and how right he was!<\/span><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">My Cannondale M1000 has been sat in the shed fixed to a Turbo Trainer for about 12 months now, I&#8217;ll never ride it on the trails again as it was too small and it&#8217;s bristling with expensive\/desirable parts which is pointless on a Turbo Trainer so it&#8217;s time for it to go <\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.sad.gif?w=620\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">This year I&#8217;m &#8216;thinning the herd&#8217; and concentrating on stuff that I will actually ride and enjoy and all the other &#8216;junk&#8217; that&#8217;s laying around is going to follow the same path eventually. I&#8217;ve got my eye&#8217;s on &#8216;something else&#8217; (<\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.wink.gif?w=620\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">), that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">WILL<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> get used and theoretically will be bags more fun (watch this space&#8230;.)<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">My M1000 in its former glory<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goatsurfer.com\/images\/M100001.JPG?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">Mid way thru the strip<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/dale_strip_01.JPG?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">That 2p trick employed again to stop scratching the Pro Series bars<\/span><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/dale_strip_02.JPG?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buddha said &#8216;Everything changes, nothing remains without change&#8217; and how right he was! My Cannondale M1000 has been sat in the shed fixed to a Turbo Trainer for about 12 months now, I&#8217;ll never ride it on the trails again &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=54\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-page","category-vintage-mtb","tag-cannondale","tag-m1000"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hERH-S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}