{"id":1062,"date":"2026-01-19T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:06:50","slug":"new-bike-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/2026\/01\/19\/new-bike-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bike Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Bike Day &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cycle360.com\/specialized\" title=\"Specialized\">Specialized<\/a> Epic 8 Expert off to it&#8217;s new home \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had the pleasure in special ordering this XC MTB beast for a repeat Specialized customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They wanted to add a few extra bits to customise and make race ready for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mvwcc.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Manx Viking Wheelers<\/a> XC MTB events (\ud83e\udd1e).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Upgraded to Roval Control Cockpit.<br>&#8211; Swapped out the Specialized Air\/Fast Trak Tyres for the same but in tan-wall. (We love a bit of tan-wall).<br>&#8211; Some added protection for the crank arms with some SRAM Crank Arm Guards.<br>&#8211; Garmin Edge MTB head unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking for a new XC MTB? Pop in and speak to our friendly bike shop team for a chat \ud83e\udd18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2026\/01\/IMG_3789-copy-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2026\/01\/IMG_3789-copy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2026\/01\/IMG_3789-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2026\/01\/IMG_3789-copy-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Bike Day &#8211; Specialized Epic 8 Expert off to it&#8217;s new home \ud83d\ude0d We had the pleasure in special ordering this XC MTB beast for a repeat Specialized customer. They wanted to add a few extra bits to customise and make race ready for the upcoming Manx Viking Wheelers XC MTB events (\ud83e\udd1e). &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":1067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycle-360-news","8":"category-product-highlights"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2026\/01\/IMG_3789-copy.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Cycle 360","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/author\/cycle360\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/cyts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}