{"id":177,"date":"2013-09-25T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2013-09-25T08:54:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:54:38","slug":"the-recyclecycle-on-bike-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-recyclecycle-on-bike-hacks.html","title":{"rendered":"The RecycleCycle on Bike Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I follow a great DIY blog called “Bike Hacks<\/a>” which features reader submissions for creative hacks related to bicycles. \u00c2\u00a0These are usually really down and dirty, low cost solutions for people more interested in function than form. \u00c2\u00a0As a practical cyclist I’ve created myriad hacks to the many bicycles I’ve manned in my day and have submitted a few of them to “Bike Hacks”.<\/p>\n

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The blog recently featured one of the hacks I came up with wherein I put a front derailleur to interesting use as a chain tensioner<\/a> on my the DIY long bike I built a few years ago.<\/p>\n

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Front derailleur as chain tensioner<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
\nFor those who’ve not seen my long bike which I lovingly call the RecycleCycle you can view a gallery of the build process and some of it’s recent iterations in the\u00c2\u00a0DIY Longtail Cargo Bike Build aka RecycleCycle<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0gallery I keep at Flickr.<\/p>\n
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The RecycleCycle<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
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I follow a great DIY blog called “Bike Hacks” which features reader submissions for creative hacks related to bicycles. \u00c2\u00a0These are usually really down and dirty, low cost solutions for people more interested in function than form. \u00c2\u00a0As a practical cyclist I’ve created myriad hacks to the many bicycles I’ve manned in my day and … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “The RecycleCycle on Bike Hacks”<\/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":[11,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling","category-educational","category-other-folks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}