{"id":39,"date":"2007-05-21T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T10:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/?p=39"},"modified":"2007-05-21T18:30:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T10:30:49","slug":"random-ebike-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Random ebike meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So rode down to Fremantle today to see my accountant. Had planned to ride back via a supplier on the south side of the river and visit a friend but the accountant took so long I ran out of time.<\/p>\n<p>Nearing Fremantle I rode past not one, but two, petrol powered bikes, they had stickers on them and I got the impression they may have been hired, but I was in a hurry so didn&#8217;t stop to ask. I got to Fremantle in about 4.5 AH, and in about 40 minutes from the CBD [20km distance= average speed 30kph, which means I must have been cruising at around 35 to account for traffic lights &amp; other stops\/slowdowns]. Not bad eh! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>On the way home I managed to run into a guy on the corner of Barrack St waiting for the lights to change who had an old currie chain drive [I think?] on his rear wheel. Hi random ebiker if you are reading! [I gave my blog details ;)]<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but who should ride into view just as we were chatting? Chris! He had a replacement charger for me too, so it was a most fortuitous and exciting meeting &#8211; there are so few ebikers in Perth still, and it&#8217;s truly exciting meeting any others randomly. I complained about the petrol powered bikes, and lamented the difficulty of getting friends to even borrow a bike to see what they&#8217;re like. But we are agreed that electric bikes are aaaaaalmost at that critical point of becoming adopted widely in western countries \ud83d\ude42 We just have to get people to try them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So rode down to Fremantle today to see my accountant. Had planned to ride back via a supplier on the south side of the river and visit a friend but the accountant took so long I ran out of time. Nearing Fremantle I rode past not one, but two, petrol powered bikes, they had stickers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anectdotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}