{"id":87,"date":"2008-05-02T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T01:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeforest.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2008-05-02T20:41:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T01:41:06","slug":"arm-chair-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Armchair Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\nHenry Thompson from Oxford, England drew inspiration from the <a href=\"\/cb\">Couchbike<\/a> in putting together this armchair bike.<\/p>\n<p>According to Henry, it started with a \u00a39\/$18 armchair from e-bay.  He bought the six feet or 1.8 metres of 2&#8243; \/ 500mm square section tubing and half a day of  time of the welder\/fabricator, Julian Bloomfield &#8211; a gentleman  artisan of the old school.  And Juriaan&#8217;s wheels &#8211; which are pricey  but there isn&#8217;t a substitute.  Everything else came from junk.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt only took a couple of days of his time to make.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2%\"> <\/td>\n<td>\n<div class=\"blackborder\"\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OwWCTHRML10&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OwWCTHRML10&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nThe armchair bike will be going on the World Naked Bike Ride &#8211; an event that throws light on the vulnerability of cyclists and on our dependence on oil &#8211; (Henry works in the oil industry himself).  Last year, he went on a normal bike and laughed himself silly for 3 hours straight.  This year on the armchair bike, Henry imagines he&#8217;ll get a lot of attention, and so he&#8217;ll be wearing an orangutan suit &#8211; his nod to the palm oil bio-fuelled predation on the rainforest home of our second cousins.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter the ride it&#8217;ll go on e-bay as a comfy bike.  Sadly, Henry hasn&#8217;t got anywhere to keep it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Thompson from Oxford, England drew inspiration from the Couchbike in putting together this armchair bike. According to Henry, it started with a \u00a39\/$18 armchair from e-bay. He bought the six feet or 1.8 metres of 2&#8243; \/ 500mm square section tubing and half a day of time of the welder\/fabricator, Julian Bloomfield &#8211; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}