{"id":149,"date":"2008-01-13T14:35:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T04:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/13\/the-best-motorcycle-riders\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T01:08:09","slug":"the-best-motorcycle-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/2008\/the-best-motorcycle-riders\/","title":{"rendered":"The best motorcycle riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/ct110.jpg' title='Honda CT110 Postie Bike'><img src='http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/ct110.jpg' alt='Honda CT110 Postie Bike' \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m actually quite excited at the prospect of doing updates on this site.  The main reason is that I am free to talk about aspects of motorcycle ownership in general rather than restricted to Hayabusa only commentary that I feel the other other site should stay focused on.<\/p>\n<p>So this week I must remind all motorcycle owners to get their U-turn practice up to date.  This week I watched as a police motorcycle rider attempt to do a U-turn to catch a speeding driver going the other way.  Now you&#8217;d expect our cops to be really good riders since they send a lot of time riding. The one I watched was not very good since he need the entire width of the 2 lane highway to do a u-turn.  He wasn&#8217;t going very fast either and was NOT confident especially considering he was stopped at the time. I was quite disappointed. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which the best motorcycle riders in general I reckon are the Australia Post guys.  The ones I&#8217;ve seen are really good considering the low powered bikes use (Honda CT110).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postiebikes.com\/faq.htm\">Postie Bikes<\/a>  They really know how to ride those things. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m actually quite excited at the prospect of doing updates on this site. The main reason is that I am free to talk about aspects of motorcycle ownership in general rather than restricted to Hayabusa only commentary that I feel the other other site should stay focused on. So this week I must remind all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hayabusa-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}