{"id":1680,"date":"2009-01-24T16:43:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T22:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2009-01-24T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T22:52:58","slug":"pedal-pushers-blog-and-the-perfect-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/pedal-pushers-blog-and-the-perfect-saddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedal Pushers Blog and The Perfect Saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy and Christine write an interesting post at their blog <a title=\"http:\/\/roy-pedalpushers.blogspot.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/roy-pedalpushers.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pedal Pushers.<\/strong><\/a> I think each sport has its holy grail search. Runners search for the perfect shoe, golfers the perfect putter. For bicyclist I think it is the perfect and comfortable saddle. I cannot count how many saddles I have purchased during my almost 30 years of riding.<\/p>\n<p>This excerpt from Pedal Pushers delves into this search.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In past beginners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pages, it has been easy to laugh at oneself over not knowing how to air up a tire or the initial trauma of wearing spandex shorts. But the current topic is a serious matter. Since a 130mm gel and air cushion combination chamois in bicycle shorts hasn&#8217;t yet been developed, we have to search for comfort elsewhere. And where would you search for seat comfort other than a bicycle seat. Keeping comfortable on the seat or keeping the seat comfortable is an on-going quest. To prove my point, raise your hand if you have more than one saddle per bike in the garage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/roy-pedalpushers.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/beginners-page-4-bicycle-seats-and.html\" href=\"http:\/\/roy-pedalpushers.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/beginners-page-4-bicycle-seats-and.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more at Pedal Pushers.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy and Christine write an interesting post at their blog Pedal Pushers. I think each sport has its holy grail search. Runners search for the perfect shoe, golfers the perfect putter. For bicyclist I think it is the perfect and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/pedal-pushers-blog-and-the-perfect-saddle\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-equipment","tag-bike-saddles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-r6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}