{"id":70111,"date":"2016-09-27T22:53:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T04:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mountain-bike-specialists-tops-in-the-nation\/"},"modified":"2016-09-28T04:53:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T04:53:58","slug":"mountain-bike-specialists-tops-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mountain-bike-specialists-tops-in-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Bike Specialists tops in the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9f28efa4-3698-4056-bd2c-b0887fe52406&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"760\" height=\"1106\" alt=\"Ed Zink, co-owner of Mountain Bike Specialists, displays the store\u2019s trophy for winning Best Mountain Bike Shop in the United States. He received the award in Las Vegas at the Interbike trade show last week.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Ed Zink, co-owner of Mountain Bike Specialists, displays the store\u2019s trophy for winning Best Mountain Bike Shop in the United States. He received the award in Las Vegas at the Interbike trade show last week.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While it frequently rates among the top mountain bike stores in the country, 2016 is the year the store was named the Best Mountain Bike Shop in the U.S. Co-owner Ed Zink picked up the statue at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interbike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interbike<\/a> industry trade show in Las Vegas last week.<\/p>\n<p>The contest began when Mountain Bike Specialists was selected as one of America\u2019s Best Bike Shops by the National Bicycle Dealers Association. After a screening, including a questionnaire and secret shopper, it was up to customers to vote to put the store over the top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe this award goes to our customers, who have supported the store for more than 47 years,\u201d said store manager John Glover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my 37 years with MBS, the expertise of our staff and mix of brands represented has never been better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_tagline\">Herald Staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zink, co-owner of Mountain Bike Specialists, displays the store\u2019s trophy for winning Best Mountain Bike Shop in the United States. He received the award in Las Vegas at the Interbike trade show last week.Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald While it frequently rates among the top mountain bike stores in the country, 2016 is the year the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[640,13,977,500],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-award-and-prize","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-mountain-biking","tag-retail"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70111"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}