{"id":1064,"date":"2009-10-18T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2009-10-18T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T00:00:37","slug":"pista-powertap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/pista-powertap\/","title":{"rendered":"Pista Powertap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/gallery\/albums\/2008_11_03_CondorPista\/normal_2009_10_17_Condor_Pista_PowertapIMG_6693.JPG\"><\/p>\n<p>The Condor Pista I use for commuting just received a nice little upgrade in the form of a rebuilt rear wheel. Not just a standard Open Pro onto any old fixed hub though &#8211; oh no &#8211; this puppy is now running a Powertap fixed hub. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebikewhisperer.co.uk\">Scherrit from The Bike Whisperer<\/a> converted an older model geared Powertap wheel I bought off ebay into  a fixed setup with the aid of a Wheelsmith conversion kit and a Surly Fixxer (and of course it wouldn&#8217;t be complete without some of Scherrit&#8217;s filing). The original aluminium nipples (fail) were trashed so the whole wheel was rebuilt in order to correctly dish it for the fixed setup. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=218\">More pics of the Condor with fixed Powertap conversion can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All this done just in time for Wheelbuilder.com to announce they are doing conversion kits for the new style Powertap hubs.. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelbuilder.com\/store\/images\/P\/tr_pt_sl_web_stack_250.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Condor Pista I use for commuting just received a nice little upgrade in the form of a rebuilt rear wheel. Not just a standard Open Pro onto any old fixed hub though &#8211; oh no &#8211; this puppy is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/pista-powertap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}