{"id":80459,"date":"2009-01-24T00:53:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T15:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=80459"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:47","slug":"red-frame-carbon-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20090124\/blogs\/bicycle\/red-frame-carbon-wheels","title":{"rendered":"Red frame, carbon wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1510197_58164795_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>I wonder which usually wins out\u2014function or appearance?<br \/>\nUnless the performance is really terrible, I&#8217;d say appearance wins.<br \/>\nI get that feeling about everything. A super cool-looking bag that&#8217;s a pain to use\u2026<br \/>\nA jacket that&#8217;s incredibly functional but looks uncool.<br \/>\nThis whole month I&#8217;m commuting by bike.<br \/>\nMight as well, since I have the chance.<br \/>\nSince you don&#8217;t see this frame very often even in Tokyo, it gets a lot of attention.<br \/>\nEven at traffic lights, people on road bikes stare at it\u2026<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s embarrassing and thrilling at the same time.<br \/>\nI just realized something today!<br \/>\nIf I wear a helmet, it hits my backpack, so that&#8217;s a no-go!<br \/>\nGood thing I didn&#8217;t buy it!<br \/>\nWell, I finally made it home.<br \/>\nPhew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;I wonder which usually wins out\u2014function or appearance? Unless the performance is really terrible, I&#8217;d say appearance wins. I get that feeling about everything. A super cool-looking bag that&#8217;s a pain to use\u2026 A jacket that&#8217;s incredibly functional but looks uncool. This whole month I&#8217;m commuting by bike. Might as well, since I have the chance. Since you don&#8217;t see this frame very often even in Tokyo, it gets a lot of attention. Even at traffic lights, people on road bikes stare at it\u2026 It&#8217;s embarrassing and thrilling at the same time. I just realized something today! If I wear a helmet, it hits my backpack, so that&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-80459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicycle","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}