<p style="text-align: left;">For the past 30 years, I can count the times I have ridden a bicycle out in the world on one hand. That&#8217;s one reason I got so deeply into inline skating. Dan would bike and I would go for a skate.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Within a few weeks of meeting Prince Charming Dan, I mounted my own bike on a stationary stand and never  looked back. I knew I&#8217;d always be a sissy on the downhills. Dan  and I already had a physically competitive relationship, and I could see he was a serious biker. I could not compete in this area and did not want to be an annoying lagger. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://getrolling.com/blog/2011/06/25/real-biking/" title="Permanent Link: From Spin to REAL Biking" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(712 words, 1 image, estimated 2:51  mins reading time)</i></span></p>{"id":830,"date":"2011-06-25T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:49:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:49:37","slug":"real-biking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/25\/real-biking\/","title":{"rendered":"From Spin to REAL Biking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the past 30 years, I can count the times I have ridden a bicycle out in the world on one hand. That&#8217;s one reason I got so deeply into inline skating. Dan would bike and I would go for a skate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Within a few weeks of meeting Prince Charming Dan, I mounted my own bike on a stationary stand and never  looked back. I knew I&#8217;d always be a sissy on the downhills. Dan  and I already had a physically competitive relationship, and I could see he was a serious biker. I could not compete in this area and did not want to be an annoying lagger. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/25\/real-biking\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: From Spin to REAL Biking\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(712 words, 1 image, estimated 2:51  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}