{"id":906,"date":"2007-12-02T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T15:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=906"},"modified":"2007-12-02T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T15:50:56","slug":"twatster-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/twatster-rides\/","title":{"rendered":"Twatster.. rides!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehippy.net\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=168\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thehippy.net\/gallery\/albums\/SpecializedLangster2006\/normal_CRW_6664.jpg\" alt=\"Specialized Langster 2006 Twatster\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Built this up yesterday after Dale got me some Fuji bars and a cog that was surely salvaged from the Titanic&#8217;s engine room! <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s brakeless at the moment so it&#8217;s only done a couple of nearby shopping runs but I have a brake ready to fit. The cog is slipping (not good brakeless!) so I need to show it some hippy love (that&#8217;s 95kg + gravity + anger + muscle power) before smacking the lock ring down with something (the ancient cog has a sticky-outty lip that stops me using my DA lockring tool &#8211; doh!).<\/p>\n<p>Initial thoughts: It&#8217;s low. The saddle to bar drop is greater than on all my other bikes so I can&#8217;t see myself in the drops much. Even with kinda heavy wheels it&#8217;s fscking light! It&#8217;s ugly (although Mal seems to like it) and it should blend in with commuter bikes at work, which was the main aim for this machine. With the cog slipping and no brakes I&#8217;ve not ridden it hard yet but I reckon it&#8217;s gonna be pretty damn quick. Slave to the NJS and 531 need to embrace the teknology! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehippy.net\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=168\">Specialized Twatster Pics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built this up yesterday after Dale got me some Fuji bars and a cog that was surely salvaged from the Titanic&#8217;s engine room! It&#8217;s brakeless at the moment so it&#8217;s only done a couple of nearby shopping runs but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/twatster-rides\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"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=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}