{"id":174,"date":"2016-03-05T23:52:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T07:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/?p=174"},"modified":"2016-05-10T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T18:18:18","slug":"rainy-day-shakedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/2016\/03\/05\/rainy-day-shakedown\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Day Shakedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"travelogue\"\r\nactivityid=\"511233511\"prefix=\"\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/\"\r\n><\/div>\r\n      \n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s raining. Quick, put on your bike clothes,&#8221; Anne said, waking me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On our <a href=\"http:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/2015\/12\/25\/christmas-eve-soaker\/\">last rainy day ride<\/a>, we discovered that even though we had rain gear for Ruth, and a fender on my bike, it wasn&#8217;t enough to keep Ruth from getting immediately soaked and covered with road grime. Hase makes a rain fairing for the trailer, but it&#8217;s discontinued. Luckily, we were able to get the last one from the warehouse in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>It arrived on Monday. With rain in the forecast for this weekend, we knew we had to take it out. My brother is visiting, too, so we didn&#8217;t want to go out for long. When it started to rain, we grabbed the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, by the time we were actually ready, it had mostly stopped. We decided to go anyways, so we could see how well the spray guard works.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it seems to work really well.&nbsp; Ruth&#8217;s feet got a bit wet, but her torso stayed dry.&nbsp; Then, on the road, it started raining again. The fairing still did its job well.<\/p>\n<p>We went out to the base of Dumbarton Bridge, with the idea of testing with some wind. We definitely found some. I felt it a bit, but it seemed manageable.<\/p>\n<p>All in, a successful test. I&#8217;m confident now that we can handle rain without putting both kids in the trailer. Ruth seemed to enjoy being in her little green rocket ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s raining. Quick, put on your bike clothes,&#8221; Anne said, waking me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2016-tour-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}