{"id":681,"date":"2026-04-23T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2026-10-12T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:41:57","slug":"goodbye-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Bike!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve had my bike (a Trek full-suspension mountain bike) for around 20 years. Today, it died: one of the clips holding a gear cable in place snapped off, leaving a great big hole in the frame. Without realizing the extent of the damage, I took it to the bike shop. The mechanic there said it wasn&#8217;t worth repairing because \u2014 even were a repair possible \u2014 once the integrity of the frame has been compromised, the whole frame could collapse at any moment. It was a sign: time to move on. Now I need to look around for a new bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Postcript<\/strong>: I took my bike from the storage area where it&#8217;s kept to the garbage collection area. Just moving the bike that short distance was enough to crack the frame completely. A close escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"875\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bike-crack-875x1024.png\" alt=\"Close up of part of a bike frame with a hole and a complete fracture.\" class=\"wp-image-683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bike-crack-875x1024.png 875w, https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bike-crack-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bike-crack-768x899.png 768w, https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bike-crack-1313x1536.png 1313w, https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bike-crack.png 1363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my bike (a Trek full-suspension mountain bike) for around 20 years. Today, it died: one of the clips holding a gear cable in place snapped off, leaving a great big hole in the frame. Without realizing the extent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/?p=681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e4ellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}