The Dallas Morning News has an article delving into riding a single speed mountain bike. Writer Joe Simnacher reports a number of riders are going back to the basics. Now I don’t know about you but single speed might be a little too basic.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n More and more mountain-bike enthusiasts are shifting back to the basics and choosing single-speed machines.<\/p>\n While advancements in mountain-bike technology have seemed to bring more climbing capability with each model year, some aficionados say there can be too much of a good thing.<\/p>\n Fans of the new generation of one-speed mountain bikes rave about their dependability, quiet ride and sense of cycling purity.<\/p>\n "There was a moment in the mountain bike world when it had, like, a rebirth," says Gary Fisher, who gave the mountain bike its name nearly 30 years ago. "It’s purist. It’s practical. The bikes are light because they don’t have all that other stuff on there."<\/p>\n Link to the full article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Dallas Morning News has an article delving into riding a single speed mountain bike. Writer Joe Simnacher reports a number of riders are going back to the basics. Now I don’t know about you but single speed might be …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}