{"id":65414,"date":"2012-06-10T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T19:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65414"},"modified":"2012-06-10T12:10:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T19:10:55","slug":"gasoline-engines-make-bicycle-racing-more-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65414","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Gasoline Engines Make Bicycle Racing More Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as there were internal combustion engines, someone was looking at his bicycle and wondering how to fit the two together. In recent years, there have been quite a few builders making kits to transform bicycles into motorized commuters and some have built bikes emulating the style of those very early years. But, as long as you have wheels and an engine, the obvious next step is racing, right? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what Baird Bergenthal and a few of his friends thought. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in Tuscon, Arizona and after riding these racers around for a while, it became obvious they needed to get on a real track\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thekneeslider.com\/archives\/2012\/06\/06\/gasoline-engines-make-bicycle-racing-more-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video &#8211; 1st Part of the final race at the Musselman P1 track in Tucson, AZ . 5th place overall, 2nd in china engine class. i&#8217;m the guy with the &#8220;bonneville speed disc&#8221; rear wheel passing everyone. awesome filming job by David &#8220;Rookie&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vVrtYmJTdSA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vVrtYmJTdSA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as there were internal combustion engines, someone was looking at his bicycle and wondering how to fit the two together. In recent years, there have been quite a few builders making kits to transform bicycles into motorized commuters and some have built bikes emulating the style of those very early years. But, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,39,45,41,68,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-motorcycle","category-mt-bike","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-road-bike","category-scooters","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414","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=65414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65416,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414\/revisions\/65416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}