{"id":101,"date":"2016-02-02T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2018-03-21T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:06:01","slug":"ooh-new-old-bike-erm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Ooh! New (old) bike&#8230; erm&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got\u00a0a knackered old Pulse Adrenaline 125 from Big_D, at virtual no cost \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Why rebuild a Chinese 125 which probably won&#8217;t be worth more than about \u00a3500 when finished? Why not? I&#8217;ve not ridden a 125 road bike for about 20 years, and I&#8217;ve never ridden anything Chinese, so it seemed like a reasonable thing to do in preparation for the rebuild of my RD350LC, planned for summer.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the parts for Chinese bikes are dirt cheap, and there&#8217;s an opportunity to put some of the frankly naff original items, and also to reverse years of teenage abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the pics as it was picked up on Friday&#8230; brace yourselves!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/3938ZAn-Imgur.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/3938ZAn-Imgur.jpg\" alt=\"3938ZAn - Imgur\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/3938ZAn-Imgur.jpg 640w, 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finished? Why not? I&#8217;ve not ridden a 125 road bike for about 20 years, and I&#8217;ve never ridden anything Chinese, so it seemed like a reasonable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-bikes","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}