{"id":100,"date":"2011-07-25T09:39:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T16:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2011-07-25T09:39:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T16:39:39","slug":"moving-by-bike-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2011\/07\/moving-by-bike-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Moving by Bike &#8211; 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In 2009 I had the idea to do an <a href=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2009\/06\/moving-by-bicycle.html\">apartment move using only a bicycle<\/a>. I started out with just a bike and a trailer and made some decent progress but knew that some &#8220;bigger guns&#8221; were necessary to really get the job done. I borrowed my buddy Mason&#8217;s bucket bike, a Madsen, as well as his DIY trailer. With that rig I was really able to get some hauling done and I successfully moved everything I owned under my own power.<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:1.4em;visibility:hidden;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The following year my lease was up again and when the time came to move I prepared my stuff carefully, boxing it all so that I could invite some good friends over (all whom have access to longtail cargo bikes) for a couple hauling trips. We moved the majority of my stuff in just two trips (there were around six people present).<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:1.4em;visibility:hidden;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Fast forward to 2011. My lease is up again and I&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22671778\">other bike moves<\/a> under my belt as well as a few bike moves helping other friends. My roomate opts to do his move by bike this year as well so we start boxing and e-mailing friends. He and I start hauling loads of his stuff on weekday mornings but I leave all of my stuff for one evening when I&#8217;ve invited a half dozen folks over to help.<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:1.4em;visibility:hidden;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>There are still a few things left to move but the I&#8217;ve collected some video along the way and made a short film for bike nerds to enjoy. \u00c2\u00a0If you&#8217;re reading this blog post through e-mail or an RSS reader be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/26869791\">click the link to see the video<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:1.4em;visibility:hidden;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/26869791?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009 I had the idea to do an apartment move using only a bicycle. I started out with just a bike and a trailer and made some decent progress but knew that some &#8220;bigger guns&#8221; were necessary to really get the job done. I borrowed my buddy Mason&#8217;s bucket bike, a Madsen, as well &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2011\/07\/moving-by-bike-2011.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moving by Bike &#8211; 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}