{"id":4212,"date":"2021-09-09T23:03:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T22:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4212"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:00:02","slug":"my-motorcycles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/my-motorcycles\/","title":{"rendered":"My motorcycles: 1 Suzuki Bandit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the summer of 2007 having just learned to ride a motorcycle at CamRider in Sawston I bought my first bike a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suzuki_Bandit_series\">Suzuki Bandit<\/a>&nbsp;600 from a woman who worked in a tattoo parlour in Peterborough. I travelled out to Coates in the fens. I remember catching the train to Whittlesford then picking up a taxi, collecting the bike from their house one morning and riding back to Cambridge through the flatlands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bandit was an old school bike, air cooled and not yet using fuel injection. You needed to pull the choke to start it from cold. It felt like a heavy bike with boggy suspension &#8211; but it was fun and it was my first bike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"body wp-block-paragraph\">I bought lots of stuff around then: a jacket, boots, gloves etc. cheaply on Ebay. Most of it either fell apart or looked dreadful &#8211; or both &#8211; as in the picture above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2007 having just learned to ride a motorcycle at CamRider in Sawston I bought my first bike a&nbsp;Suzuki Bandit&nbsp;600 from a woman who worked in a tattoo parlour in Peterborough. I travelled out to Coates in the fens. I remember catching the train to Whittlesford then picking up a taxi, collecting&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/my-motorcycles\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My motorcycles: 1 Suzuki Bandit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4373,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4212","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4212\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}