{"id":4427,"date":"2021-12-01T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4427"},"modified":"2022-01-17T22:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T22:23:44","slug":"my-motorcycles-3-bmw-r1200gs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/my-motorcycles-3-bmw-r1200gs\/","title":{"rendered":"My motorcycles: 3 BMW R1200GS Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August 2009 I found myself buying the bike I had imagined that I would have to wait for an inheritance before affording. Luckily a cheque from some journal work for a publisher coincided with the appearance on ebay of a locally placed 1200GS Adventure &#8211; with, crucially, a low seat and at an affordable price &#8211; and aluminium adventure panniers. How could I let this one slip? It felt agricultural compared to the Triumph. It needed a new clutch (it was nearly impossible to put it in neutral) which BMW paid for even though it was out of warranty. Ah, happy days. It was a handful to ride though, at slow speed, and to park but it was clunky and eccentric &#8211; in a nice way, and air\/oil cooled. It had a 33 litre tank but the fuel gauge was dodgy and I got onto my third before I traded it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BMWR1200gs_and_owner-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BMWR1200gs_and_owner-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BMWR1200gs_and_owner-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BMWR1200gs_and_owner-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BMWR1200gs_and_owner-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BMWR1200gs_and_owner-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BMWR1200gs_and_owner-480x360.jpg 480w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BMWR1200gs_and_owner-1216x912.jpg 1216w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BMWR1200gs_and_owner-333x250.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2009 I found myself buying the bike I had imagined that I would have to wait for an inheritance before affording. Luckily a cheque from some journal work for a publisher coincided with the appearance on ebay of a locally placed 1200GS Adventure &#8211; with, crucially, a low seat and at an affordable&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/my-motorcycles-3-bmw-r1200gs\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My motorcycles: 3 BMW R1200GS Adventure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4415,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4427","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\/4427","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=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4462,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4427\/revisions\/4462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}