{"id":566,"date":"2007-09-29T06:04:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/archives\/566"},"modified":"2007-09-29T06:04:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T12:04:28","slug":"cyclist-will-race-with-bike-of-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/cyclist-will-race-with-bike-of-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist will race with bike of legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the Corpus Christi Caller-Times (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caller.com\/news\/2007\/sep\/28\/conquer_sidebar\/\" target=\"_blank\">full article link<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>As Daniel Ruidant tackles a 65-mile bicycle ride a week before he turns 60, he&#8217;ll have some inspiration from a five-time Tour de France winner.<\/p>\n<p>In his debut Conquer the Coast ride Saturday, the downtown hairstylist will churn the pedals of a nearly 27-year-old Italian-made steel-tube bicycle given to him by five-time Tour de France winner Eddy Merckx.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#8217;m antique,&quot; said Ruidant, stroking his pencil-thin mustache. &quot;The two antiques go together, and it&#8217;s never too late to achieve something.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Corpus Christi Caller-Times (full article link) As Daniel Ruidant tackles a 65-mile bicycle ride a week before he turns 60, he&#8217;ll have some inspiration from a five-time Tour de France winner. In his debut Conquer the Coast ride <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/cyclist-will-race-with-bike-of-legend\/\"><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":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","category-bike-ride"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-98","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}