{"id":135,"date":"2006-04-02T10:27:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T10:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/04\/02\/hot-wheels-bmx-advert\/"},"modified":"2006-04-02T10:27:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-02T10:27:43","slug":"hot-wheels-bmx-advert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/04\/02\/hot-wheels-bmx-advert\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Wheels BMX Advert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/81\/rad81_13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/81\/thumb-rad81_13.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Hot Wheels BMX Advert November 1989\" title=\"Hot Wheels BMX and Skate Advert November 1989\"  \/><\/a>Hot Wheels stuck to their guns. Like Alpine Action trying to sneak skateboard adverts into BMX Action Bike, they ran their BMX adverts in a magazine which was crammed full of skateboarding. I admire them for it.<br \/>\nWhat could you get for your money? Complete bikes like a Skyway Streetscene would cost \u00c2\u00a3199 and the most expensive thing on the page was a Redline F\/S 25 at \u00c2\u00a3245. They were also offering Mongoose Stylist at \u00c2\u00a3179 and Mongoose Decade for \u00c2\u00a3159 &#8212; this would have been about the time that they took over distribution of the brand which defined BMX here in the early days. There&#8217;s a full list of components and accessories: the complete service &#8212; and they&#8217;re still going strong to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Wheels stuck to their guns. Like Alpine Action trying to sneak skateboard adverts into BMX Action Bike, they ran their BMX adverts in a magazine which was crammed full of skateboarding. I admire them for it. What could you get for your money? Complete bikes like a Skyway Streetscene would cost \u00c2\u00a3199 and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adverts","category-issue-81-november-1989"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}