{"id":75092,"date":"2013-02-05T07:46:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75092"},"modified":"2013-02-05T07:46:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:46:44","slug":"cycling-mt-bike-blind-bike-racer-beats-obstacles-in-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75092","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Mt Bike &#8211; Blind bike racer beats obstacles in path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bobby McMullen pedaled his road bike over a wooden bridge, swooped along a curving trail next to Richardson Bay, and then, as he approached a gate, readied himself for what, under the circumstances, was a risky maneuver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Risky because the 50-year-old Mill Valley bike racer is blind. McMullen, who can see some shapes and bright colors, competes in downhill and cross-country mountain bike races by following a guide who calls out turns and obstacles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Stay on me, Bobby,&#8221; instructed McMullen&#8217;s friend, Brad Waldron, who served as his guide during a recent 20-mile training ride through Mill Valley and Tiburon\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Blind-bike-racer-beats-obstacles-in-path-4250859.php\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby McMullen pedaled his road bike over a wooden bridge, swooped along a curving trail next to Richardson Bay, and then, as he approached a gate, readied himself for what, under the circumstances, was a risky maneuver. Risky because the 50-year-old Mill Valley bike racer is blind. McMullen, who can see some shapes and bright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75092","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=75092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75094,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75092\/revisions\/75094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}