Once upon a time, while desperately looking for lodging during a rainstorm in Kyoto, JAPAN — (true story), the front desk attendant of a ryokan lodge told my friend and me\u00c2\u00a0that the price for one night’s lodging was upwards of $150.\u00c2\u00a0 Far more than we could afford, we attempted to negotiate with her.\u00c2\u00a0 She looked at us, and said in perfect English:\u00c2\u00a0 “You pay for quality.”<\/p>\n
Such a mantra often echoes in the ears of San Franciscans, as we “pay for quality” at restaurants, department stores, and bike shops.\u00c2\u00a0 Whether we are mountain bikers, commuters, or roadies, there’s always another way for someone in the SF to take our hard-earned, trust-funded, made-on-the-stock market, or willed-to-us-by-crazy-departed-uncle, CASH…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once upon a time, while desperately looking for lodging during a rainstorm in Kyoto, JAPAN — (true story), the front desk attendant of a ryokan lodge told my friend and me\u00c2\u00a0that the price for one night’s lodging was upwards of $150.\u00c2\u00a0 Far more than we could afford, we attempted to negotiate with her.\u00c2\u00a0 She looked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836","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=18836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18837,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836\/revisions\/18837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}