{"id":340,"date":"2015-07-21T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/?p=340"},"modified":"2015-07-21T10:19:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:19:53","slug":"thinking-outside-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/2015\/07\/21\/thinking-outside-the-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Outside the Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commutebybike.com\/2008\/03\/18\/top-5-reasons-to-claim-the-lane-and-why-its-safer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/claimthelane.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/claimthelane.jpg\" alt=\"Claim The Lane\" width=\"500\" height=\"172\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/claimthelane.jpg 500w, http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/claimthelane-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an interesting experiment, I tried something today. Rode the exact same route, the same bike, even the same kit to work. The experiment? I added something simple, a backpack. All of the sudden, instead of some feckless bike snob, I am a commuter, and the way I am treated on the road changes. People give a little more space. I suspect this speaks to some deeply rooted psyche issues in the American commuter, but it does raise an interesting question.<\/p>\n<p>Does the appearance of a lycra clad cyclist imply a different usage that justifies a different behavior?<\/p>\n<p>There is an interesting thought, and I wonder if it plays into the success of bike lanes and the success of the city bikes programs around the country. Bikes, and cyclists that don&#8217;t look like pure fitness usage do not create the conflict that the lycra wearing road cyclist do. Is this related to the idea that cyclists are law breakers, and hooligans? I don&#8217;t know, I am thinking out loud here, but if this is the case, is it something we need to talk more about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting experiment, I tried something today. Rode the exact same route, the same bike, even the same kit to work. The experiment? I added something simple, a backpack. All of the sudden, instead of some feckless bike snob, I am a commuter, and the way I am treated on the road changes. People [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}