{"id":10226,"date":"2014-08-25T10:41:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T00:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeme.tv\/?p=10226"},"modified":"2014-08-25T13:33:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T03:33:28","slug":"tour-now-tour-often-ventura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/tour-now-tour-often-ventura\/","title":{"rendered":"TOUR NOW, TOUR OFTEN. DO IT WITH VENTURA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think some smart-arse has designed a bike you can&#8217;t fit luggage to, those clever Kiwis at Ventura rub his nose in it and come up with a Ventura system that fits.<br \/>\nI have toured many miles with Ventura gear, and it&#8217;s always worked, lasted well, and only ever failed once, but that was after a mate catapaulted the bike down a cliff and it cartwheeled a few times. Pretty much everything was broken on it that day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10227\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10227\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10227\" alt=\"D041B-Front-01-web\" src=\"http:\/\/bikeme.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/D041B-Front-01-web.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/D041B-Front-01-web.jpg 620w, https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/D041B-Front-01-web-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/D041B-Front-01-web-384x350.jpg 384w, https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/D041B-Front-01-web-600x545.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">While you&#8217;re admiring the bag, pause to consider the glory of the front stand as well.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Gearsacks and L-brackets you use to fit them up are the stuff of legend. All bike stuff should be this well made.<\/p>\n<p>And now there are Astro top-boxes as well. I acknowledge their practicality, but the challenge to my manhood is simply too extreme for me to fit one to anything ever. More secure men need not have the same issues.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the entire Kenma catalogue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenma.com.au\/downloads\/2014KenmaCatalogue.swf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think some smart-arse has designed a bike you can&#8217;t fit luggage to, those clever Kiwis at Ventura rub his nose in it and come up with a Ventura system that fits. I have toured many miles with Ventura gear, and it&#8217;s always worked, lasted well, and only ever failed once, but that [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10233,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226\/revisions\/10233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}