{"id":182,"date":"2013-11-22T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T17:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2013-11-22T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T17:39:11","slug":"the-companion-bike-seat-its-better-than-riding-on-handle-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"The Companion Bike Seat: It&#8217;s Better Than Riding on Handle Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Companion Bike Seat is a bran<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-183 alignleft\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" alt=\"companion-bike-seat\" src=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/companion-bike-seat-200x300.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">d new, and pretty handy, extra that hooks up to your bike, allowing you to cart around, at the very least, a 200-pound passenger &#8212; or for parents a lot of kids. This week, the San Francisco-based company began its Kickstarter campaign, hoping to raise just enough money to produce 1,000 compan<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">io<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">n seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebikeseat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Companion Bike Seat<\/a>\u00a0costs $125 in Kickstarter guise and includes a lockable stash box, pegs, a comfy padded vinyl seat, and the tubular steel frame. While the Companion isn&#8217;t going to give you as much carrying capacity as an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xtracycle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xtracycle<\/a>\u00a0or a purpose built cargo bike, it gives you a lot more than you have now.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"article\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2013\/11\/the_companion_bike_seat_better.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2013\/11\/the_companion_bike_seat_better.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Companion Bike Seat is a brand new, and pretty handy, extra that hooks up to your bike, allowing you to cart around, at the very least, a 200-pound passenger &#8212; or for parents a lot of kids. This week, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=182\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Companion Bike Seat: It&#8217;s Better Than Riding on Handle Bars<\/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":[12,9],"tags":[28,25,27],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-spt","tag-accessories","tag-eco-entrepreneur","tag-rack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}