{"id":79632,"date":"2013-05-23T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T13:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79632"},"modified":"2013-05-23T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T20:48:40","slug":"mt-bike-world-cup-preview-2013-ten-questions-for-the-top-ten-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79632","title":{"rendered":"Mt Bike &#8211; WORLD CUP PREVIEW 2013: TEN QUESTIONS FOR THE TOP TEN &#8211; pt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With the start of the World Cup Downhill series at Fort William less than a month away its time to preview the season ahead. To do this I surveyed the opinions of last year\u2019s top ten men and top five women riders with a series of ten taxing (or perhaps inane depending on your view point) questions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here\u2019s a great reminder from that Parkin\u2019s about just what went on last season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1: Lets get this one out of the way\u2026. Where do you stand on the wheel size debate in Downhill? Have you tested other wheel sizes? Will you be running anything larger this year?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Aaron Gwin: I feel like 29ers are\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/dirt.mpora.com\/news\/world-cup-preview-2013-ten-questions-for-the-top-ten-part-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">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>With the start of the World Cup Downhill series at Fort William less than a month away its time to preview the season ahead. To do this I surveyed the opinions of last year\u2019s top ten men and top five women riders with a series of ten taxing (or perhaps inane depending on your view [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79632","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\/79632","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=79632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79635,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79632\/revisions\/79635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}