{"id":757,"date":"2006-08-29T21:53:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T05:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/new-bike"},"modified":"2006-08-31T08:34:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T16:34:55","slug":"new-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/new-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just purchased a 1999 Giant DS2 XTC from a fellow Seattlite. The bike is very nice, but in need of a little bit of maintenance and one item of repair work &#8212; its rear shifter only has about half the range it should. The components are all Shimano LX, and its rear shock is vevelt smooth &#8212; quite incredible to ride around on. It is also quite light for its size. In its heyday, a bike like this would have retailsed north of $1,000. I picked it up for $150, quite a deal, as long as I am able to get the shifter working.<\/p>\n<p>Its probably time to invest in a little more theft prevention equipment. While I am very happy with my current U-lock, I don&#8217;t want my wheels running off on their own either.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Photos!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/albums\/2006_08\/IMG_1931.sized.jpg\" alt=\"Giant DS2 XTC\" class=\"full\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/albums\/2006_08\/IMG_1932.sized.jpg\" alt=\"The rear shock -- Fox Vanilla Float\" class=\"full\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/albums\/2006_08\/IMG_1934.sized.jpg\" alt=\"From the front\" class=\"full\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just purchased a 1999 Giant DS2 XTC from a fellow Seattlite. The bike is very nice, but in need of a little bit of maintenance and one item of repair work &#8212; its rear shifter only has about half the range it should. The components are all Shimano LX, and its rear shock is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}