{"id":33499,"date":"2009-06-23T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T12:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=33499"},"modified":"2009-06-23T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T12:02:43","slug":"bike-and-boardt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/06\/bike-and-boardt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike and Board-Thumbs Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an old Sears bike gathering dust and rust in the basement of my building. Last week I dragged it to the new bike shop in Vanderbilt (the last time it had been tuned up, 8 years ago, I&#8217;d taken it to Dixon&#8217;s, which did a crummy job, had to take it back twice, they charged me $100.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, the guys at Bike and Board took my old beater and turned it into a beauty. The rust is gone, the gears are sparkling, it rides better than it has in decades. My hat (well, my helmet) is off to them.<\/p>\n<p>Total cost&#8211;including two new tires which had to be special ordered&#8211;was $120, which seemed just about right, considering the original condition of my bike.<\/p>\n <span class=\"plp-active-page\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/span> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/06\/bike-and-boardt\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an old Sears bike gathering dust and rust in the basement of my building. Last week I dragged it to the new bike shop in Vanderbilt (the last time it had been tuned up, 8 years ago, I&#8217;d taken it to Dixon&#8217;s, which did a crummy job, had to take it back twice,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10079,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-33499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stores"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/06\/bike-and-boardt\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Bike and Board-Thumbs Up","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/06\/bike-and-boardt\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/06\/bike-and-boardt\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Stores","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"WonTon"}],"creator":["WonTon"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-06-23T12:02:43Z","datePublished":"2009-06-23T12:02:43Z","dateModified":"2009-06-23T12:02:43Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Bike and Board-Thumbs Up\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2009\\\/06\\\/bike-and-boardt\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2009\\\/06\\\/bike-and-boardt\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Stores\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"WonTon\"}],\"creator\":[\"WonTon\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Forum Archive\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2009-06-23T12:02:43Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-06-23T12:02:43Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-06-23T12:02:43Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/brownstoner.com\/p.js"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","print_hed":"","photo_gallery":[],"print_subhed":"","print_slug":"","syndication_thumb":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33499"},{"taxonomy":"districts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/districts?post=33499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}