{"id":241,"date":"2014-12-16T21:50:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T21:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2014-12-16T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T21:50:05","slug":"motor-less-city-bankrupt-detroits-booming-bike-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Motor-less City? Bankrupt Detroit&#8217;s booming bike industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/detroitBikeCo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-242\" src=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/detroitBikeCo.jpg\" alt=\"detroitBikeCo\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/detroitBikeCo.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/detroitBikeCo-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/detroitBikeCo-100x66.jpg 100w, http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/detroitBikeCo-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/detroitBikeCo-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/detroitBikeCo-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/detroitBikeCo-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/detroitBikeCo-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before there was the Model T, there was the Quadricycle. Henry Ford fashioned his original automobile from four bicycle wheels and a chain at the height of Detroit\u2019s 19th-century bike (yes, bike) manufacturing boom. If Detroit rose and fell on for four wheels, its past\u2014and potentially its future\u2014was built on just two. As the city wends its way through bankruptcy court this fall and its core industry lurches back to solvency, the Motor City is revving up to become a manufacturing hub again, this time for a vehicle that has no motor at all: the bicycle.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"article\" href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2014\/10\/09\/detroit-bicycle-manufacturing\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/fortune.com\/2014\/10\/09\/detroit-bicycle-manufacturing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before there was the Model T, there was the Quadricycle. Henry Ford fashioned his original automobile from four bicycle wheels and a chain at the height of Detroit\u2019s 19th-century bike (yes, bike) manufacturing boom. If Detroit rose and fell on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=241\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Motor-less City? Bankrupt Detroit&#8217;s booming bike industry<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,7,6],"tags":[22,25,46],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-goodnews","category-spcnews","tag-bike-business","tag-eco-entrepreneur","tag-family-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}