{"id":759,"date":"2009-02-06T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T01:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2009-03-17T21:52:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T04:52:04","slug":"for-levi-cycling-isnt-a-sport-its-a-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road Bike &#8211; For Levi, cycling isn&#8217;t a sport, it&#8217;s a lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article_text\">\n<p>The fire road, as Scott Nydam remembers it a year ago last summer, wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so much a fire road as a butchered carving through dirt, rocks and fallen trees. The fire road in West Sonoma County had been long since abandoned and it would have been easy spraining an ankle \u00e2\u20ac\u201d walking.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So here we are, bombing down this fire road on our bikes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Nydam, a pro cyclist with BMC, talking about himself and Levi Leipheimer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stuff everywhere.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressdemocrat.com\/article\/20090205\/NEWS\/902050205\/1031\/SPORTS07?Title=For_Levi__cycling_isn_t_a_sport__it_s_a_lifestyle\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fire road, as Scott Nydam remembers it a year ago last summer, wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so much a fire road as a butchered carving through dirt, rocks and fallen trees. The fire road in West Sonoma County had been long since abandoned and it would have been easy spraining an ankle \u00e2\u20ac\u201d walking. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So here we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}