{"id":517,"date":"2021-04-02T11:12:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/?p=517"},"modified":"2021-06-07T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:32:23","slug":"another-year-older-another-year-wiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/another-year-older-another-year-wiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Another year older, another year wiser&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now a year to the day (plus one) since our last post. Time flies.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_76341-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"grace cycling past signpost\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_76341-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_76341-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_76341-900x1200.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_76341-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_76341-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_76341-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a busy year, so have all the other bike shops, so it seems; so busy was the year that\u00a0 the whole of the usual annual supply of bikes disappeared in a couple of months and everybody has been trying to play catch up since. Not very successfully I must admit, because stocks are still very limited and the supply chain doesn&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s coming or going, call it Corona, call it Brexit, call it the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n<p>Gleeful hand-rubbing at the piles of gold pouring into the coffers has turned to frustrated hand-wringing and apologetic phone-calling to prospective customers whose bicycle delivery recedes into an uncertain future.<\/p>\n<p>But temporary gloom must make way for an optimistic future &#8211; the Active Travel phenomenon is slowly but surely encroaching into the cultural mainstream, and bikes, electric-assisted or leg-operated, will play a big part.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/b21c1819-6cf9-4ec7-914b-e6e7c1523ea01.jpg\" alt=\"grace alternative signpost picture\" width=\"828\" height=\"1104\" data-id=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/b21c1819-6cf9-4ec7-914b-e6e7c1523ea01.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/b21c1819-6cf9-4ec7-914b-e6e7c1523ea01-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/b21c1819-6cf9-4ec7-914b-e6e7c1523ea01-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now a year to the day (plus one) since our last post. Time flies. We&#8217;ve had a busy year, so have all the other bike shops, so it seems; so busy was the year that\u00a0 the whole of the usual annual supply of bikes disappeared in a couple of months and everybody has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikebikebike.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}