{"id":548,"date":"2007-09-08T06:19:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T12:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/archives\/548"},"modified":"2007-09-08T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T21:24:55","slug":"competitive-cycling-without-leaving-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/08\/competitive-cycling-without-leaving-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Competitive cycling without leaving home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Competitive+cycling+without+leaving+home\/2100-11398_3-6206769.html?part=rss&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20&amp;subj=news\" target=\"_blank\">news.com.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, U.S. cyclists can get trounced by some of the best riders in Europe without leaving home.  With the Ergo Bike Premium 8i from Germany&#8217;s Daum Electronics, riders from around the world compete against each other over virtual versions of some of the sport&#8217;s storied race courses. Riders gather at a particular time, pick a course and go. In a ride I witnessed, riders from Germany and a few Americans went head-to-head on a simulated version of the bike segment of Hawaii&#8217;s Ironman Triathlon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from news.com.com Now, U.S. cyclists can get trounced by some of the best riders in Europe without leaving home. With the Ergo Bike Premium 8i from Germany&#8217;s Daum Electronics, riders from around the world compete against each other over virtual <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/08\/competitive-cycling-without-leaving-home\/\"><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":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-equipment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-8Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}