{"id":929,"date":"2009-12-18T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T09:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=929"},"modified":"2009-12-18T23:01:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T22:01:37","slug":"german-bling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"German Bling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/reaction-red.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-933\" title=\"Cube Reaction-red\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/reaction-red-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Cube Reaction-red\" width=\"229\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/reaction-red-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/reaction-red.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a>Alan Hartley (author of the Sportident timing software AutoDownload) and\u00a0I go back a few years, first meeting in the Pludds village hall when I was 10 at a South West Junior Orienteering squad training weekend. Since we shared a house together\u00a0as students\u00a0in Cardiff\u00a0we\u00a0have often\u00a0ridden together\u00a0(with me\u00a0chasing his tail technically) and watched each other fall off many times over the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/DSC_0585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-924\" title=\"Corratec Bow XT 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/DSC_0585-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Corratec Bow XT 2010\" width=\"249\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a> years &#8211;\u00a0well mainly Alan watching me, ask him about Bedwas! For the last few years we have both been riding Giant XTCs\u00a0and for various reasons we have both ended up with new race bikes at the same time. And both German.<br \/>\nAlan has a Cube Reaction XT and I have the Corratec Bow. The spec of them is very similar, XT groupset, Elixer CR brakes and alloy frame. The standard wheels on the Cube are slightly better and it comes with a Fox fork as opposed to the Bow&#8217;s Reba.<br \/>\nWhat both bikes also have in common is the style-thing that European bikes tend to have: bling frame graphics.<br \/>\nBoth of us like our new bikes and will be racing them on Saturday down at the Military Challenge in Aldershot. Achtung everybody, the Germans are coming !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Hartley (author of the Sportident timing software AutoDownload) and\u00a0I go back a few years, first meeting in the Pludds village hall when I was 10 at a South West Junior Orienteering squad training weekend. Since we shared a house together\u00a0as students\u00a0in Cardiff\u00a0we\u00a0have often\u00a0ridden together\u00a0(with me\u00a0chasing his tail technically) and watched each other fall off &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;German Bling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-kit","category-mountain-biking-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}