{"id":128561,"date":"2017-02-19T10:59:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=128561"},"modified":"2017-02-19T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:59:36","slug":"mt-bike-from-leather-to-lycra-troubled-youngsters-are-swapping-gang-life-for-off-road-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=128561","title":{"rendered":"Mt Bike &#8211; From leather to lycra: troubled youngsters are swapping gang life for off road racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Chance Hurinui aspired to be a patched gang member.<\/p>\n<p>These days he rolls with a different kind of bike group, having chosen lycra and not leather.<\/p>\n<p>Hurinui will\u00a0take to the start line of the 2017 Motatapu mountain bike race on March 4\u00a0alongside Olympic cycling medallist Hayden Roulston and Olympic and World Champion rower Mahe Drysdale.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old was among a group of five young people selected for the event and who\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/other-sports\/89393664\/from-leather-to-lycra-troubled-youngsters-are-swapping-gang-life-for-off-road-racing\" 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>Five years ago, Chance Hurinui aspired to be a patched gang member. These days he rolls with a different kind of bike group, having chosen lycra and not leather. Hurinui will\u00a0take to the start line of the 2017 Motatapu mountain bike race on March 4\u00a0alongside Olympic cycling medallist Hayden Roulston and Olympic and World Champion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-misc","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128561","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=128561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128562,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128561\/revisions\/128562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}