{"id":7770,"date":"2018-02-27T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2018-08-28T08:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T08:07:49","slug":"2018-year-new-bike-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/2018\/02\/27\/2018-year-new-bike-s\/","title":{"rendered":"2018: year of the new bike (s)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys, I&#8217;d like to introduce you to the new addition to my training\/racing paraphernalia: the &#8220;Black Beauty&#8221;!<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7772\" src=\"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/053BE9E5-1CF0-405B-99C2-4E012F3DF540-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Make &amp; model: Trek SLR 8 Disc, and it was 100% sponsored by Team PossAbilities. I am super thankful and it was time for an upgrade. That bike is obscenely light, so on my climbing training days it makes my life easier; and also descending: After climbing a steep hill, the downhill is fast and you gotta be super focused on turns and braking &#8211;hydraulic disc brakes are a breeze on that occasion.<\/p>\n<p>On races where there&#8217;s hills and a lot of turning I&#8217;ll be using this bike. And if the race has a lot of straight aways, I&#8217;ll use the time trial bike.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of time trial bike, I found a crack on mine, in Florida, when assembling it for the PanAm race last March. Thankfully it held for that last race, but unfortunately it&#8217;s something that isn&#8217;t fixable. It&#8217;s time to hang that historical frame. It has served me well, it fought many battles; and when it first came to me, as a gift, it was used a handful of times by the great Jens Voigt while training for his quest to beat the Hour Record. When I got it, he was actually the fastest man on a bike. It was a big weight to carry, a legacy actually, and it gave me a lot of inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed is my soul and I was able to replace the frame after contacting Trek! I don&#8217;t have it yet, but am looking forward to build it when it comes!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to hoping I get faster with these toys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys, I&#8217;d like to introduce you to the new addition to my training\/racing paraphernalia: the &#8220;Black Beauty&#8221;! Make &amp; model: Trek SLR 8 Disc, and it was 100% sponsored by Team PossAbilities. I am super thankful and it was time for an upgrade. That bike is obscenely light, so on my climbing training days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/053BE9E5-1CF0-405B-99C2-4E012F3DF540-1140x445.jpeg",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/053BE9E5-1CF0-405B-99C2-4E012F3DF540-463x348.jpeg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/053BE9E5-1CF0-405B-99C2-4E012F3DF540-300x225.jpeg",300,225,true],"full":["https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/053BE9E5-1CF0-405B-99C2-4E012F3DF540.jpeg",2048,1536,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7773,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions\/7773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}