{"id":19395,"date":"2013-11-19T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T13:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=19395"},"modified":"2013-11-19T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T13:10:16","slug":"vintage-bikes-make-cycling-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2013\/11\/19\/vintage-bikes-make-cycling-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage bikes make cycling accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19398\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19398\" alt=\"Dan Bradshaw in his Penylan based bike garage\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/daningarage.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/daningarage.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/daningarage-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19398\" alt=\"Dan Bradshaw in his Penylan based bike garage\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/daningarage.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/daningarage.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/daningarage-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript> Dan\u2019s deceptively small garage can house up to twelve bikes at a time<br \/>(Photos by <a title=\"Matt Ayres on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mttyrs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Ayres<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A bike restoration business in Penylan is helping to make Cardiff a cool and inexpensive cycling destination.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rollquick website\" href=\"http:\/\/rollquick.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Rollquick Bicycles<\/b><\/a>\u00a0takes the disused parts from classic British models and recycles them to create retro wonders that are as safe and reliable as most modern bikes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19400\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 200px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19400\" alt=\"Green and yellow fixie by Rollquick\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/boltbike_inlineimage.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/boltbike_inlineimage.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/boltbike_inlineimage-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19400\" alt=\"Green and yellow fixie by Rollquick\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/boltbike_inlineimage.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/boltbike_inlineimage.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/boltbike_inlineimage-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/noscript> The colour scheme for this lightning quick racer was inspired by a <a title=\"Google search: Usan Bolt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=usain+bolt&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=V62KUr7qH86ShgfIu4GwBg&amp;ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&amp;biw=1440&amp;bih=698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similarly swift Jamaican runner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dan Bradshaw runs the thriving business from a small garage below his home in Doe Close. The 25-year-old recently sold his hundredth bike, allowing him to quit his retail job and focus on his real passion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re all quirky and different,\u201d enthuses Dan, gesturing towards the assortment of wheels and frames in his workshop. \u201cI\u2019ve never sold two bikes that look the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His unique and attractive bicycles are also reasonably priced; the cheapest go for just \u00a380.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second hand bicycles are both hip and affordable thanks to Rollquick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":19397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1408,3344,3345,3140,3346,3347,636,3348,552],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-19395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-life","tag-bicycle","tag-fixed-gear-bikes","tag-fixie","tag-penylan","tag-recycled","tag-rollquick","tag-second-hand","tag-upcycle","tag-vintage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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