{"id":643973,"date":"2026-06-17T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643973\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:50:15","slug":"dont-take-your-local-bike-shop-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643973\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t take your local bike shop for granted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had to say some painful goodbyes this month. First, my GP retired. I\u2019ll miss my annual check-ups with him: \u2018Your blood pressure\u2019s slightly high, your alcohol consumption is above the recommended guidelines and your cholesterol is borderline. Still cycling six hours a week? Fine, I\u2019ll see you in a year.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His down-to-earth fatalism was weirdly reassuring: \u2018Sure, you could pay \u00a3500 for a private body scan and be given the all-clear today. But what about tomorrow?\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve had to say some painful goodbyes this month. First, my GP retired. I\u2019ll miss my annual check-ups&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,217023,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-cyclist-magazine","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}