{"id":879,"date":"2016-02-25T10:24:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2016-03-04T17:25:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:25:01","slug":"customizing-a-fatbike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/25\/customizing-a-fatbike\/","title":{"rendered":"Customizing a fatbike"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-880\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-880\" src=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fatbike-bruce.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce ingle on his customized fatbike\" width=\"189\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fatbike-bruce.jpg 189w, https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fatbike-bruce-146x300.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 85vw, 189px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Ingle on his customized fatbike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheldonbrown.com\/fatbike.html\">Bruce Ingle customizes a fatbike &#8212;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fatbikes are intended for use on soft, muddy, sandy, snowy surfaces but they need customization to make them truly practical for such use &#8212; in particular, fenders, wide-range gearing including ultra-low gears, and a way to carry baggage. Our new article will help you to customize a fatbike, but also gives you a look into customizing bicycles, in general.<\/p>\n<p>The article is taken from a running e-mail discussion in which Bruce contemplates choices, decides on a bicycle purchase, and describes the various steps of customization and how they worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Ingle customizes a fatbike &#8212; Fatbikes are intended for use on soft, muddy, sandy, snowy surfaces but they need customization to make them truly practical for such use &#8212; in particular, fenders, wide-range gearing including ultra-low gears, and a way to carry baggage. Our new article will help you to customize a fatbike, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/25\/customizing-a-fatbike\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Customizing a fatbike&#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":[4],"tags":[5,169,658,659,32,31,11,14,43,42,10,96,190],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-pages","tag-bicycle","tag-bottom-bracket","tag-fabbike","tag-fenders","tag-gearing","tag-gears","tag-hub","tag-maintenance","tag-sheldonbrown","tag-sheldonbrown-com","tag-shimano","tag-tires","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","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=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}