{"id":28,"date":"2004-09-09T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T07:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/?p=28"},"modified":"2005-03-21T20:24:15","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T10:24:15","slug":"my-bike-turns-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2004\/09\/my-bike-turns-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"My Bike Turns 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well kind of&#8230; Today (or more accurately at about 4:57pm this afternoon) my bike officially reached its first 2000km. Last year for my birthday (sometime in October *grin*), the family got me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cateye.com\">Cat Eye<\/a> cycle computer. Although I had been riding it to work for a couple of weeks before then and many times without the Cat Eye, I now have visual proof of this significant (at least for me) event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/wp-content\/all_bike.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/rant\/wp-content\/all_bike_small.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To give you a few ideas of exactly how far this is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A little over the distance driving from Brisbane to Sydney and back again. (1964km)<\/li>\n<li>Approximately the same length as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reefhq.org.au\/\">Great Barrier Reef<\/a> coral strip<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a little over halfway between Los Angeles and New York City (3933km) &#8211; I&#8217;m not too strong on US geography so I have no idea where that is<\/li>\n<li>40, 000 laps of an Olympic sized pool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well kind of&#8230; Today (or more accurately at about 4:57pm this afternoon) my bike officially reached its first 2000km. Last year for my birthday (sometime in October *grin*), the family got me a Cat Eye cycle computer. 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