{"id":5717,"date":"2010-11-01T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2010\/11\/01\/the-rans-sail-trike-where-modern-day-recumbents-began\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:48","slug":"the-rans-sail-trike-where-modern-day-recumbents-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2010\/11\/01\/the-rans-sail-trike-where-modern-day-recumbents-began\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rans Sail Trike Where Modern Day Recumbents Began"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/recumbents\/v6Cak1o3CWR5hMRSjBHNe6FhCbdrv2XWG28tTSAwp4pnK7DtI3IgEHpDs5YE\/SailTrikeByRans.jpg?resize=400%2C300\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<div>If you want to see how, Randy Schlitter, one of the top minds of the 21st Century, got started with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ransbikes.com\/\">Rans<\/a>, the premier manufacturer of both recumbent bicycles and small aircraft, \u00a0here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ransbikes.com\/early%20years.htm\"><b><span>story<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to see how, Randy Schlitter, one of the top minds of the 21st Century, got started with&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2010\/11\/01\/the-rans-sail-trike-where-modern-day-recumbents-began\/\">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":[1,6,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-recumbent","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-1ud","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9503,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/07\/13\/the-new-leader-at-rans-a-force-to-be-reckoned-with\/","url_meta":{"origin":5717,"position":0},"title":"The New Leader at Rans, a Fun Force to be Reckoned With!","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"July 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"We spent some time on the phone today with a man who has some pretty huge shoes to fill. 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