{"id":105394,"date":"2015-04-18T10:25:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=105394"},"modified":"2015-04-18T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T17:25:38","slug":"meet-the-man-tackling-the-tour-de-france-on-a-kids-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=105394","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man tackling the Tour de France on a kid\u2019s bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Sim might be the anti-Lance Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old cycling enthusiast will be riding the entire route of the Tour de France this summer on a children\u2019s bike \u2014\u00a0the Raleigh Chopper. Sim\u2019s goal is to raise money for charity, while proving biking is not just for the rich.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last five years, the cost of road cycling has skyrocketed, but you don\u2019t need all that, you just need to get out and ride,\u201d Sim told Caters News Agency. \u00a0\u201cThe other side of the challenge is to raise as much money for Help for Heroes as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sim will be riding the more than 2,000-mile course\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/04\/16\/meet-the-man-taking-on-the-tour-de-france-on-a-childrens-bike\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Sim might be the anti-Lance Armstrong. The 36-year-old cycling enthusiast will be riding the entire route of the Tour de France this summer on a children\u2019s bike \u2014\u00a0the Raleigh Chopper. Sim\u2019s goal is to raise money for charity, while proving biking is not just for the rich. \u201cIn the last five years, the cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,71,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105395,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105394\/revisions\/105395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}