{"id":224,"date":"2016-11-20T20:28:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/?p=224"},"modified":"2017-11-22T22:53:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T22:53:22","slug":"too-good-to-pass-up-klein-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/too-good-to-pass-up-klein-pulse\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Good To Pass Up: Klein Pulse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_194\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_8948.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-194\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"size-large wp-image-194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_8948-1024x620.jpg\" alt=\"1998 Klein Pulse\" width=\"960\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_8948-1024x620.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_8948-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_8948-768x465.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_8948-240x144.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1998 Klein Pulse, as original as you like.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When you&#8217;re not looking for one, sometimes a great bike just finds you. I must&#8217;ve been aimlessly browsing through the new posts in the &#8220;bikes&#8221; section on the local seller&#8217;s website, and saw this beauty. After figuring out that 1) I liked the Bianchi Sprint 76 too much to use it as a city commuter, 2) the single-speed State Bicycle Co that I brought from the US was not really so much fun to ride, and 3) not only do I loathe locking up the Amp Research B4 anywhere other than at home, but taking it to France to give her a proper mountain to ride on is a much better idea, the idea of <em>yet another bike<\/em> started to make some sense. In this case, a hardtail mountain bike would fit the bill perfectly, preferably something to which\u00a0I wasn&#8217;t so emotionally attached.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I might not be able to maintain emotional detachment. The more I ride this one, the more I like it.<\/p>\n<p>The perfect bike to blast around the city centre: light, nimble, sure-footed. Some new cables, chain \u00a0&amp; cassette, and it&#8217;s like new, a really clean bike. The GripShift SRT-400 shifters aren&#8217;t great, so those may be upgrade at some point in the future. I like GripShift, but these are just a bit sloppy. Otherwise, I don&#8217;t mind getting it wet, jumping curbs, or leaving it locked to a street sign &#8211; the perfect city bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re not looking for one, sometimes a great bike just finds you. I must&#8217;ve been aimlessly browsing through the new posts in the &#8220;bikes&#8221; section on the local seller&#8217;s website, and saw this beauty. After figuring out that 1) I liked the Bianchi Sprint 76 too much to use it as a city commuter,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/too-good-to-pass-up-klein-pulse\/\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}