{"id":1969,"date":"2012-12-04T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:33:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:33:17","slug":"zip-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/zip-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Zip it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/12\/ziptiebiketires.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1970\" title=\"ziptiebiketires\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/12\/ziptiebiketires.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>I just recently retired my bike for the season. It&#8217;s true, the roads are not icy or covered in snow&#8230;yet. So I do feel like a bit of a wimp for walking and taking the Metro when I could be cruising to work in 15 minutes on my trusty Peugeot. However, I will have to get used to the longer\/less convenient commute, because I&#8217;m not the girl who gears up with goggles and snow pants and shreds through downtown Montreal mid-January! I want to be though. So with that in mind, I started researching cheap and easy ways to winterize my bike for next year (I need substantial time to get used to the idea) and I came across this great little invention: zip tie snow tires! Fritz Rice, the man behind the zip tie snow tires idea, has this to say: &#8220;I can accelerate, brake, and corner with aplomb, even on the vile snowpack\/sheet ice mix the plows leave in the bike lanes. The zip ties dig nicely into the hardest packed surfaces, but they&#8217;re thin enough not to bounce the bike around at low speed or on short pavement sections.&#8221; Simple and effective. A great combo. Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.gizmodo.com\/5719594\/zip-tie-snow-tires-the-cheapest-way-to-blizzard+proof-your-bike\">here<\/a>.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of ca.gizmodo.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just recently retired my bike for the season. It&#8217;s true, the roads are not icy or covered in snow&#8230;yet. So I do feel like a bit of a wimp for walking and taking the Metro when I could be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/zip-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,157],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-do-it-yourself","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}