{"id":20928,"date":"2020-07-24T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/24\/two-wheels-better-than-four-india-falls-in-love-with-cycling-lockdown-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-07-24T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:15:07","slug":"two-wheels-good-india-falls-back-in-love-with-bikes-after-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20928","title":{"rendered":"Two wheels good: India falls back in love with bikes after Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bicycle boom has seen Indians swapping cars \u2013 the ultimate status symbol \u2013 for a more humble mode of transport<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With cases of Covid-19 surging past the one million mark, Indians are shunning crowded buses and trains to travel on what has traditionally been regarded in this status-conscious society as the poor man\u2019s mode of mobility: the bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>At Bike Studio in Bhopal, owner Varun Awasthi is almost out of stock. Sales are up by 30% and he expects them to rise to 50% once he gets more bicycles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/24\/two-wheels-better-than-four-india-falls-in-love-with-cycling-lockdown-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bicycle boom has seen Indians swapping cars \u2013 the ultimate status symbol \u2013 for a more humble mode of transportCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWith cases of Covid-19 surging past the one million mark, Indians are shunning c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,1069,676,65,407,59,62,78,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-cycling","category-environment","category-fitness","category-global-development","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20929,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928\/revisions\/20929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}