{"id":32,"date":"2005-05-07T22:49:44","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2005-08-06T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T23:16:07","slug":"bikes-for-fat-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/bikes-for-fat-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes for Fat People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now here is a refreshing concept. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co-motion.com\/\">Co-Motion Cycles<\/a> of Eugene, OR is building a bike for riders 300 pounds and up.  It is rugged as all get-up. It was prototyped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivendellbicycles.com\/\">Rivendell <\/a>so you know it&#8217;s good quality. It&#8217;s gonna be about $3000 which is kinda steep. But as Chris Hoffer, who rode the prototype and dropped from 422 to 321 pounds on it, points out, this is a lot less than his $48,000 hospital stay for a heart attack. If health insurers gave these out instead of electric buggies I think we&#8217;d be getting someplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here is a refreshing concept. Co-Motion Cycles of Eugene, OR is building a bike for riders 300 pounds and up. It is rugged as all get-up. It was prototyped by Rivendell so you know it&#8217;s good quality. It&#8217;s gonna be about $3000 which is kinda steep. But as Chris Hoffer, who rode the prototype [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}