{"id":45279,"date":"2023-01-27T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45279"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:15:48","slug":"my-tricycle-a-lesson-learnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45279","title":{"rendered":"My tricycle: a lesson learnt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_5674-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-46988 alignleft\" title=\"2023.2.13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_5674-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarly last year, a neighbor on FB posted her red tricycle (Schwinn? couldn&#8217;t remember the brand) for sale, for $250, with very little mileage on it.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t bought a bike in over a decade. So I looked on Amazon and found a couple of good-looking bikes for about $300.<\/p>\n<p>My mistake #1 is not knowing anything about the tricycle market and wanting to buy; #2, when would one buy a thing from the lower end?!?<\/p>\n<p>I committed to all of the above lol<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_6813-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47053 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_6813-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Many neighbors bought their bikes, especially tri on Craig&#8217;s List (still going strong, apparently!)<\/p>\n<p>Unbeknown to me, the $300+ amazon bike came UNassembled &#8211; I was wondering how would amazon ship the tri.<\/p>\n<p>The instruction is generic and very unhelpful. I got lost after step 2.<\/p>\n<p>SO &#8230; little Irene called a bike shop to come to assemble. The cost? As much as the bike itself. Hey &#8230; I got to visit the mobile bike shop. It&#8217;s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; And, it goes very slow, no matter how hard I paddle.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, the bottom line, or the only point I could praise my bike, is, it has two baskets (adding a basket is easy &#8230;), SO &#8230; it&#8217;s my SUV to travel cross country!!! Oh boy&#8230; self-pacifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early last year, a neighbor on FB posted her red tricycle (Schwinn? couldn&#8217;t remember the brand) for sale, for $250, with very little mileage on it. I haven&#8217;t bought a bike in over a decade. So I looked on Amazon and found a couple of good-looking bikes for about $300. My mistake #1 is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}