{"id":18612,"date":"2016-09-12T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T17:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=18612"},"modified":"2016-09-11T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T03:10:09","slug":"1970s-sears-roebuck-screamer-1-with-wicked-shifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/1970s-sears-roebuck-screamer-1-with-wicked-shifter\/","title":{"rendered":"1970s Sears Roebuck ‘Screamer 1’ with Wicked Shifter!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ever get a moment to see one of these things, spend a few minutes with it (even the Milwaukee Art Museum have one in their collection<\/a>!) – this is a gorgeous throwback bike with some really nifty features. I’m talking about the shifter. A physical ratchet shifter in the middle of the frame; it actually switches pretty smoothly, but it’s daunting to reach down (and somewhat forward) to reach it to shift while riding – but man is it rewarding! And yes that’s a ‘parking break’ – because 1970s. The chain guard and Shimano Lack derailleur are pretty neat to look at too, and the upright seat post will fix any posture problems you might have! <\/p>\n

\"Screamer <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Sears <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"wiiiiide <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"I <\/a>
I was even allowed to ride this model and it’s darn smooth! <\/div> <\/div>
\"chain <\/a>
chain guard and Shimano Lack derailleur <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
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If you ever get a moment to see one of these things, spend a few minutes with it (even the Milwaukee Art Museum have one in their collection!) – this is a gorgeous throwback bike with some really nifty features. I’m talking about the shifter. A physical ratchet shifter in the middle of the frame; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[659],"series":[],"class_list":["post-18612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-bicycle"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC02423.jpg?fit=1600%2C1067&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-4Qc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18621,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612\/revisions\/18621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18612"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=18612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}