{"id":105,"date":"2011-09-16T12:05:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2011-09-16T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:05:38","slug":"wd-40-is-not-lube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2011\/09\/wd-40-is-not-lube.html","title":{"rendered":"WD-40 IS NOT LUBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walloftvs\/6147770264\/in\/photostream\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"WD-40 is NOT lube.\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6169\/6147770264_3689ebe30f.jpg\" alt=\"WD-40 is NOT lube.\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<hr size=\"1\" width=\"100\">\n<p>I was visiting the community bike shop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strans.org\/freecycles.html\" target=\"_blank\">Free Cycles Missoula<\/a> last weekend and while there I took a picture of a sticker they had posted next to their bicycle lube station. It read, &#8220;WD-40 is not lube&#8221;. For the cycle wrenching geeks out there this statement will give you a bit of a laugh. For those not into the joke do a bit of Googling so that you too can become a future bike geek.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<hr size=\"1\" width=\"100\">\n<p>I liked the sticker so when I got home I pointed my web browser to the link that was printed below the slogan and found out that the folks that printed the sticker, <a href=\"http:\/\/worldsbestbikestickers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WorldsBestBikeStickers.com<\/a> were clearly bike geeks and have a whole host of nifty stickers not only for your bicycle but also for your &#8211; *gasp* &#8211; car as well. Here are a few of their stickers that I like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<hr size=\"1\" width=\"100\">\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-105 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bikecamper.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"88\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bikecamper-150x88.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bikeswork.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bikeswork-150x144.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/builtwithmyown2hands.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"76\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/builtwithmyown2hands-150x76.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dontpollutebikecommute.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"70\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dontpollutebikecommute-150x70.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gobybike.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gobybike-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/onelesscar.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" 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src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tools-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/warning.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/warning-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/wd40.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/wd40-150x64.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was visiting the community bike shop, Free Cycles Missoula last weekend and while there I took a picture of a sticker they had posted next to their bicycle lube station. It read, &#8220;WD-40 is not lube&#8221;. For the cycle wrenching geeks out there this statement will give you a bit of a laugh. For &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2011\/09\/wd-40-is-not-lube.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WD-40 IS NOT LUBE&#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-105","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\/105","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=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}