{"id":25242,"date":"2006-09-24T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/09\/24\/pedal-power\/"},"modified":"2006-09-24T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T00:48:00","slug":"pedal-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25242","title":{"rendered":"Pedal Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/vineyard3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/vineyard3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>About halfway down the Vineyard is Pedal Power the bike shop, with Mr Lee Hairdressing on one side, and a pub, converted to housing on the other.<\/p>\n<p>I took my bike there last week for a new brake block. The chap went through a box of brake blocks but could not find a match. The designs change rapidly nowadays. Anyway, went back, and he had one this week. But now I need the wheel unbent. Rather stupidly, I left it locked up overnight on St Edmunds Lane and somebody has given the wheel a kick.<\/p>\n<p>Pedal Power is quite traditional with a large workshop at the rear, and bikes for sale in the front, mostly Dawes and Raleigh. Then there are boxes of bike parts.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/vineyard2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/vineyard2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>It is part of the Vineyard, a road named after the Abbey grape growing area.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, on the subjects of bikes, cycling back home tonight with the bent wheel hitting the brake blocks, I got stopped by a policeman. &#8220;Excuse me Sir? Your back lights are not showing.&#8221; True enough, the battery was getting weak.<\/p>\n<p>People might be glad to know the police still do take a note of such things. Even though five minutes later I saw six young lads cycle past without a light between them, nor a policeman in sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About halfway down the Vineyard is Pedal Power the bike shop, with Mr Lee Hairdressing on one side, and a pub, converted to housing on the other. I took my bike there last week for a new brake block. The chap went through a box of brake blocks but could not find a match. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}