{"id":1359,"date":"2018-08-23T22:47:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T02:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2018-08-23T22:47:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T02:47:47","slug":"steel-frame-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/steel-frame-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel frame repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aluminum, titanium and carbon-fiber frames are fashionable, and generally lighter than steel frames. But if you are on a bicycle tour to a remote area, the ability of any small-town welder to perform an ugly but functional repair on a steel frame could allow you to continue. You may be able to straighten a bent frame yourself. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheldonbrown.com\/steel-frame-repair.html\">Read about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1360\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1360\" src=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSCF0157lugsteel.jpg\" alt=\"John Schubert speaks up for steel\" width=\"514\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSCF0157lugsteel.jpg 514w, https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSCF0157lugsteel-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 85vw, 514px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Schubert speaks up for steel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aluminum, titanium and carbon-fiber frames are fashionable, and generally lighter than steel frames. But if you are on a bicycle tour to a remote area, the ability of any small-town welder to perform an ugly but functional repair on a steel frame could allow you to continue. You may be able to straighten a bent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/steel-frame-repair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steel frame repair&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[403,5,470,471,401,402,424,14,15,59,40,41,43,42,405,425],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-aluminum","tag-bicycle","tag-carbon","tag-carbon-fiber","tag-carbon-fibre","tag-composite","tag-frame","tag-maintenance","tag-repair","tag-shelbroco","tag-sheldon","tag-sheldon-brown","tag-sheldonbrown","tag-sheldonbrown-com","tag-steel","tag-titanium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}