{"id":83,"date":"2002-09-13T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2002-09-13T20:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/09\/13\/mormons-have-their-own-bikes\/"},"modified":"2002-09-13T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2002-09-13T20:03:32","slug":"mormons-have-their-own-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/09\/13\/mormons-have-their-own-bikes","title":{"rendered":"Mormons Have Their Own&nbsp;Bikes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A church recently volunteered to purchase bicycles for Paula and I. That\u2019s a super-practical way to support our ministry since the campus is so&nbsp;vast!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the pastor asked me to research bicycles and let him know what we needed.<\/p>\n<p>All the bicycle sites online seemed to be focusing on upper-end triathalon-type bikes, which just aren\u2019t what we need. So I started thinking about it, and I realized that Mormon missionaries probably know more about the type of bicycles we\u2019re looking at than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to do some research, and I was amused to find that there is a company that makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liahona-bike.com\/aboutus.shtml\">specialty Mormon missionary bicycles<\/a>. In fact, that\u2019s all that they sell\u2013and no one except Mormon missionaries can purchase them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love this quote: <i> As for theft, long a problem for missionaries, Spence notes: \u201cIf you see a hippie guy with long hair riding a Liahona down the street, and he doesn\u2019t have a shirt and tie on, you know the bike\u2019s not&nbsp;his.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I knew that the Mormons have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightplanet.com\/mormons\/basic\/temples\/Garments_EOM.htm\">special Mormon undergarments<\/a> (which I understand Senator Orrin Hatch wears), but I had no idea they had special bikes as&nbsp;well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which I announce my discovery that there are special Mormon-only bicycles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}