{"id":64086,"date":"2026-06-23T21:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=64086"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:50:02","slug":"why-you-should-check-your-bike-before-you-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/23\/why-you-should-check-your-bike-before-you-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should check your bike before you ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might have something like I found on my bike tonight:<\/p>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:185,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pedbikeinfo.org\\\/bicyclesaferjourney\\\/abcquickcheck.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260301033348\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.pedbikeinfo.org\\\/bicyclesaferjourney\\\/abcquickcheck.pdf&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-24 04:50:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-24 04:50:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8571-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Close up of a broken link on a bike chain.\" class=\"wp-image-64088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8571-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8571-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8571-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8571-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8571-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A broken chain is a little annoy at home, but a major pain in the ass on the road. The good news: I had a fresh quick link, and the break gave me an excuse to give the chain a proper deep clean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lesson: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pedbikeinfo.org\/bicyclesaferjourney\/abcquickcheck.pdf\">Do your ABCs before you ride<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have something like I found on my bike tonight: A broken chain is a little annoy at home, but a major pain in the ass on the road. The good news: I had a fresh quick link, and the break gave me an excuse to give the chain a proper deep clean. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[414,239,413],"class_list":["post-64086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bike","tag-abc-quick-check","tag-bicycle","tag-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64089,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64086\/revisions\/64089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}