{"id":152419,"date":"2019-08-12T20:35:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=152419"},"modified":"2019-08-12T20:35:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:35:55","slug":"could-joining-an-electric-vehicle-gang-make-me-give-up-my-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=152419","title":{"rendered":"Could joining an electric vehicle gang make me give up my bike?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday afternoon at Pier 15 a squad of 35 electric vehicle riders whiz past a pair of women enjoying the waterfront. &#8220;What is this, a flash mob?&#8221; they ask in disbelief. Kevin Grandon, riding an electric unicycle in padding that makes him look like a futuristic soldier, replies with a smile: &#8220;We&#8217;re electric nerds!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For a day, I became one of those nerds, joining the Bay Area Esk8 group on their Saturday social ride.<\/p>\n<p>As an urban cyclist, electric skateboards, scooters, and unicycles zoom past me in the bike lane at speeds that would earn them a ticket in a school zone. I envy the power of their vehicles, but like many people, I have a knee-jerk distaste for\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/Could-joining-an-electric-vehicle-gang-make-me-14291302.php?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=briefing&amp;utm_campaign=sfg_thedaily\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday afternoon at Pier 15 a squad of 35 electric vehicle riders whiz past a pair of women enjoying the waterfront. &#8220;What is this, a flash mob?&#8221; they ask in disbelief. Kevin Grandon, riding an electric unicycle in padding that makes him look like a futuristic soldier, replies with a smile: &#8220;We&#8217;re electric nerds!&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,69,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-electric-vehicles","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152419","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=152419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152420,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152419\/revisions\/152420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}