{"id":21314,"date":"2014-02-13T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2014\/02\/13\/dh-internet-meltdown-ahead-of-pmb-world-cup-r1218\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:12:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:12:52","slug":"dh-internet-meltdown-ahead-of-pmb-world-cup-r1218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/dh-internet-meltdown-ahead-of-pmb-world-cup-r1218\/","title":{"rendered":"DH Internet meltdown ahead of PMB World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so I can see that the internet is indeed going to have a meltdown leading up to the World Cup round here in PMB.<\/p>\n<p>Already there are tweets from Brendan &#8220;I-may-as-well-stay-at-home-cus-I-suck-at-pedalling&#8221; Fairclough saying that he will be on a 650B Scott Genius LT.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-41808-0-23389500-1392288066.jpg\" data-fileid=\"322212\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"322212\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-41808-0-23389500-1392288066.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-41808-0-23389500-1392288066.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then an interview with Nigel Page from CRC showing the Custom 650B Nukeproof Mega AM  that Sam Hill will be on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpora.com\/videos\/AAdpi2bzy7pz\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mpora.com\/videos\/AAdpi2bzy7pz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the amount of bad press the Pietermaritzburg Downhill course gets on the one hand about having more pedalling sections and what not, there is no other round of the World Cup that people rock up with custom bikes built specifically for &#8211; which is pretty cool as it is driving the advances in Trail Bikes as well as DH bikes in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Pity for them though as they don&#8217;t know that I plan to put in some extra rock gardens at the top and bottom of the track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so I can see that the internet is indeed going to have a meltdown leading up to the World Cup round here in PMB. Already there are tweets from Brendan &#8220;I-may-as-well-stay-at-home-cus-I-suck-at-pedalling&#8221; Fairclough saying that he will be on a 650B Scott Genius LT. Then an interview with Nigel Page from CRC showing the Custom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5019,5018],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-course","tag-pmb-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21314"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}