{"id":77830,"date":"2013-04-12T19:37:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T02:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77830"},"modified":"2013-04-13T07:32:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T14:32:27","slug":"mt-bike-could-nepal-see-a-mountain-bike-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77830","title":{"rendered":"Mt Bike &#8211; Could Nepal see a mountain bike boom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just outside the door of Himalayan Singletrack, I could hear the sounds of honking, foreign languages, ethnic music, and the hustle and bustle on the chaotic streets of Thamel, the tourist region in Kathmandu, Nepal. Inside, I was enjoying sweet milk tea and reading local cycling magazines while one of the mechanics trued a bent rotor.<\/p>\n<p>I had stopped into the bike shop and guide outfit for a tune-up ahead of the Yak Attack, the 10-day stage race that brought me to Nepal. As I turned a magazine page I was surprised to see\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bicycling.com\/blogs\/thefarride\/2013\/03\/28\/into-the-wild\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just outside the door of Himalayan Singletrack, I could hear the sounds of honking, foreign languages, ethnic music, and the hustle and bustle on the chaotic streets of Thamel, the tourist region in Kathmandu, Nepal. Inside, I was enjoying sweet milk tea and reading local cycling magazines while one of the mechanics trued a bent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77830","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=77830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77855,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77830\/revisions\/77855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}