{"id":152492,"date":"2019-08-16T20:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T03:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=152492"},"modified":"2019-08-16T20:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T03:43:03","slug":"the-california-beach-cruiser-built-a-bike-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=152492","title":{"rendered":"The California Beach Cruiser Built a Bike Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"l-article__dek o-small-container\"><em>In the 1970s, the signature fat-tired mobility mode of beach towns managed to turn vacationers into bicycle riders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you hit the beach this summer, you\u2019ll see them. Fat tires. Wide handlebars. Candy-colored retro-looking frames.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That particular kind of bicycle is known as a \u201cbeach cruiser.\u201d While it looks like a nostalgic holdover from the Eisenhower era, the bikes that ramble along boardwalks of America\u2019s beach towns were born in mid-1970s. And\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/transportation\/2019\/08\/beach-cruiser-bike-paths-california-bicycle-history-schwinn\/596113\/\" 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>In the 1970s, the signature fat-tired mobility mode of beach towns managed to turn vacationers into bicycle riders. If you hit the beach this summer, you\u2019ll see them. Fat tires. Wide handlebars. Candy-colored retro-looking frames. That particular kind of bicycle is known as a \u201cbeach cruiser.\u201d While it looks like a nostalgic holdover from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,39,41,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152492","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=152492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152493,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152492\/revisions\/152493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}