{"id":6254,"date":"2012-06-02T06:51:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2012-05-29T16:16:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T23:16:05","slug":"tour-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=6254","title":{"rendered":"Tour of California"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went with Lillian, Barbara and Gordon to watch the Amgen Tour of California<\/strong><\/a> bicycle race a few weeks ago and had a terrific time.<\/p>\n

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It took all day but it was great fun to be up in the mountains at Mt Baldy Village with thousands of people who shared a strange enthusiasm for bicycle racing.\u00a0 We were at a spot where we could see the racers go by twice and we did but the actual part where you watch the race is perhaps five minute each time.<\/p>\n

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Most of the time is taken up eating, watching the other spectators and casual riders, repositioning and trying to find your friends.\u00a0 As the riders came by I rang a cowbell to encourage them and it seemed to work.\u00a0 And I get to write the word peloton and know what it means.<\/p>\n

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Bicycle racing is a perfect sport for advertising upscale products.\u00a0 The fans are all upper middle class people with nice cars free time and disposable income.\u00a0 It is not unusual for someone to spend $3000 for a recreational bicycle and then an additional $1000 each for some super tires and wheels.<\/p>\n

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I get high with a little help from my friends<\/em><\/p>\n

The Tour of California isn’t as big as the Tour de France yet but I predict that it will be in thirty years or so.<\/p>\n

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I went with Lillian, Barbara and Gordon to watch the Amgen Tour of California bicycle race a few weeks ago and had a terrific time. It took all day but it was great fun to be up in the mountains at Mt Baldy Village with thousands of people who shared a strange enthusiasm for bicycle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[226,106,176],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations","category-travel","tag-bicycles","tag-california","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1CS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6259,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions\/6259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}