{"id":869,"date":"2013-01-02T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/?p=869"},"modified":"2013-01-30T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T18:25:15","slug":"ridley-x-fire-cross-bike-a-real-mudder-says-cyclingnews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/2013\/01\/ridley-x-fire-cross-bike-a-real-mudder-says-cyclingnews-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridley X-Fire cross bike a real mudder, says cyclingnews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Belgian roots revealed in X-Fire&#8217;s strong mud and sand performance<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/reviews\/ridley-x-fire-disc-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-872 alignright\" title=\"Ridley X-Fire Disc in cyclingnews.com\" src=\"\/\/www.livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ridley-xfire-bike-cyclingneews.jpg\" alt=\"2013 Ridley X-Fire Disc carbon cross bike in cyclingnews.com\" width=\"294\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ridley-xfire-bike-cyclingneews.jpg 600w, https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ridley-xfire-bike-cyclingneews-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/reviews\/ridley-x-fire-disc-review\">Cyclingnews.com<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/road\/gear\/category\/bikes\/cyclo-cross\/product\/review-ridley-bikes-x-fire-disc-custom-build-13-46823\">bikeradar.com<\/a> say the carbon fibre\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.ridley-bikes.com\/ca\/en\/bikes\/4\/66\/cyclocross\/x-fire-1202c\">Ridley X-Fire cyclocross<\/a>\u00a0bike (choice of U.S. champion Brandon Dwight) is a\u00a0&#8220;workhorse well suited to nasty conditions&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A fixture on the North American cyclo-cross scene since its introduction in 2007, the carbon fiber <strong>Ridley X-Fire<\/strong> gets updated yet again for the 2012-13 season, with optional disc brake tabs and 135mm rear hub spacing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To me, <strong>the X-Fire is an awesome race bike<\/strong>,&#8217; said Boulder Cycle Sport founder \u2013 and three-time US cyclo-cross age category national champion \u2013 Brandon Dwight, who graciously loaned us his personal rig for this review. &#8216;With the oversized head tube and fork, the front end is so stiff that it does exactly what I want it to. I corner with great confidence.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/reviews\/ridley-x-fire-disc-review\">Continue reading about the Ridley X-Fire Disc in cyclingnews.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>View specifications<\/strong> of the\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.ridley-bikes.com\/ca\/en\/bikes\/4\/66\/cyclocross\/x-fire-1202c\">Ridley X-Fire 1202C <\/a>and <a href=\"\/\/www.ridley-bikes.com\/ca\/en\/bikes\/4\/65\/cyclocross\/x-fire-1202b\">Ridley X-Fire 1202B<\/a> disc-compatible cyclocross bikes\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/ridley-bikes.com\/ca\/en\/\">ridley-bikes.com<\/a>. View more\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.316869988361807.74473.177332138982260&amp;type=1\">reviews of Ridley bikes on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian roots revealed in X-Fire&#8217;s strong mud and sand performance Cyclingnews.com and bikeradar.com say the carbon fibre\u00a0Ridley X-Fire cyclocross\u00a0bike (choice of U.S. champion Brandon Dwight) is a\u00a0&#8220;workhorse well suited to nasty conditions&#8221;: &#8220;A fixture on the North American cyclo-cross scene&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[40,130,131,43,129,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}