{"id":14947,"date":"2019-09-05T17:43:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T00:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=14947"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:59:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:59:04","slug":"face-down-recumbent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2019\/09\/05\/face-down-recumbent\/","title":{"rendered":"Face Down Recumbent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo was taken in Sweden in the 1950s. In 2013, an online advertisement appeared in Sweden to sell perhaps the very same bike (photo below). The ad said the bike was made in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14948\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2019\/09\/05\/face-down-recumbent\/screen-shot-2019-09-05-at-8-35-34-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-8.35.34-PM.png?fit=398%2C252&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"398,252\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2019-09-05 at 8.35.34 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-8.35.34-PM.png?fit=398%2C252&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14948 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-8.35.34-PM.png?resize=398%2C252\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo was taken in Sweden in the 1950s. In 2013, an online advertisement appeared in Sweden to sell perhaps&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2019\/09\/05\/face-down-recumbent\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[6,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recumbent","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-3T5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10083,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/09\/10\/history-of-the-modern-day-recumbent-talk-coming\/","url_meta":{"origin":14947,"position":0},"title":"History of the Modern Day Recumbent Talk Coming","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"September 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"At the\u00a0Recumbent Tri-Cycle-Con Trade Show & Convention, held Sept 25-27 at the Sharonville Convention Center, in Cincinnati, OH, \u00a0Author and\u00a0National Bicycle Greenway Director, Martin Krieg will be giving a presentation that fleshes out the story behind the pictures below as well many more. 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