{"id":57,"date":"2010-02-08T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=56"},"modified":"2013-08-19T09:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T09:51:41","slug":"shot-down-in-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Shot down in the night&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Back on topic with a bike related blog post after all this Home Cinema stuff getting in the way, been trying to amass a bunch of stuff to sell recently but had to score these couple of items when they were dangled under my nose.<\/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;\">SDG Comp Ti Kevlar &#8211; I&#8217;ve always been a Ti Flite man but my curiosity has been aroused by my <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/utahdoglives.blogspot.com\/\">&#8216;virtual EWR buddy&#8217; Utahdog<\/a><a style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/utahdoglives.blogspot.com\/\">&#8216;s <\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">obsesession with these things so I thought I&#8217;d try one out. It arrived last week fresh from Florida but so far I&#8217;ve not had time to mount the thing and try it out, maybe this will get done for this coming weekends RetroBike forest ride.<\/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;\">Pic gratuitously stolen from Utahdog<\/span> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.tongue.gif?w=620\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goatsurfer.com\/images\/SDG_ti.jpg?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Another thing I&#8217;ve had on my Hitlist for ages is an original 1st Generation Answer Alumilite DH bar and I had all but given up looking when one cropped up in Germany, complete with the all important &#8216;golden shims&#8217;. I had it mind this would look neat on my EWR but in hindsight it might not look so cool as its bare aluminium and everything else on the bike is currently black. These bars have the most amazing wall thickness and weigh an absolute ton<\/span> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.shocked.gif?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goatsurfer.com\/images\/Alumilite.jpg?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on topic with a bike related blog post after all this Home Cinema stuff getting in the way, been trying to amass a bunch of stuff to sell recently but had to score these couple of items when they &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=57\">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":[69,288,323,34,322,324],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-page","category-vintage-mtb","tag-alumilite","tag-answer","tag-comp-ti-kevlar","tag-ewr","tag-sdg","tag-utahdog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hERH-V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}