{"id":158,"date":"2009-02-04T00:17:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T20:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2009-02-24T00:18:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:18:24","slug":"bmx-brands-could-crater-from-high-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"BMX Brands Could Crater From High Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the character of BMX comes from boutique brands laboring out of love. They may not make a lot of money, but the owners are motivated by a true passion for the niche sport, often cultivated from their early days spent racing at the local BMX track.<\/p>\n<p>But some in the BMX industry are concerned that the sport may lose that lifeblood as the smaller brands are squeezed out of the market due to expensive testing required by the new consumer product safety law.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We may have to close our doors,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Bill Ryan, who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s owned Supercross BMX in Apple Valley, California, for two decades&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicycleretailer.com\/news\/newsDetail\/2304.html\" target=\"_blank\">More Info&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the character of BMX comes from boutique brands laboring out of love. They may not make a lot of money, but the owners are motivated by a true passion for the niche sport, often cultivated from their early days spent racing at the local BMX track. But some in the BMX industry are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-new-bike-products-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}