{"id":3604,"date":"2010-11-15T18:18:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:18:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:52:49","slug":"planning-to-buy-a-new-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3604","title":{"rendered":"Planning to buy a new bike?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then you have several options, you could choose to go for the safe, conservative and very common alternative &#8211; bikes that has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bike_chain\">bike chains<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But if you want to be more innovative, maybe want to prove that you are an early adopter in the urban market (ha-ha), you could go for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trekbikes.com\/us\/en\/bikes\/urban\/district\/district\/\">Trek District Bike<\/a>. It uses a belt instead of a chain, in fact it might be a good alternative for my single speed. I have already had to replace two chains this year, and I give the one mounted on it right now just another month before that one must be replaced as well.<\/p>\n<p>But you can be even more innovative, take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stringbike.com\">Stringbike<\/a>. That is for sure innovation! But it looks a bit complicated I must admit. <\/p>\n[video:youtube:z4PAzalfpww]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then you have several options, you could choose to go for the safe, conservative and very common alternative &#8211; bikes that has bike chains. But if you want to be more innovative, maybe want to prove that you are an early adopter in the urban market (ha-ha), you could go for the Trek District Bike. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14003,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions\/14003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}