{"id":17,"date":"2022-09-26T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2022-09-26T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:13:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/me_with_ribble.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\" width=\"450\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/me_with_ribble.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/me_with_ribble-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a keen cyclist since my teens and initially learned bicycle repair at my weekend and summer job at JRD Equipment in Ellon whilst I studied at university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I earned a Masters degree in Physics and went on to become a research scientist and engineer for the UK Ministry of Defence, and spent over twelve years delivering world-leading technology for the British Armed Forces.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I now have over 25 years experience of repairing thousands of bicycles, and constantly keep up to date with the latest technology via industry tutorials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can often be found running errands on my Marin hybrid, out on a long ride on my Cannondale Synapse roadie, going up and down hills on my Whyte 901 MTB and occasionally doing the odd duathlon or time-trial on my Ribble TT bike. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a keen cyclist since my teens and initially learned bicycle repair at my weekend and summer job at JRD Equipment in Ellon whilst I studied at university. I earned a Masters degree in Physics and went on to become a research scientist and engineer for the UK Ministry of Defence, and spent over &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/index.php\/about\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclegarden.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}