{"id":1004,"date":"2012-05-11T17:25:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2012-05-11T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T17:25:18","slug":"a-little-discovery-in-essex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/a-little-discovery-in-essex\/","title":{"rendered":"A little discovery in Essex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a bit of a gap I went on another observed ride in preparation for the IAM motorcycle test and on a rare sunny day. The starting point was the ever popular McDonald&#8217;s Sawston (I can&#8217;t understand why anyone would drive out there for a hamburger). About 50 miles of riding included dropping off at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hideout-leather.co.uk\">Hideout Leather<\/a>, a successful company founded in the 1970s that specialises in made to measure leather jackets and suits for bikers ( I read a long article about Kate Jennings, the woman that founded the company but can&#8217;t find it). The showroom is at Ashdon, Essex, not far from Safron Waldon in the middle of nowhere (CB10 2LZ). As well as stocking a range of other high quality biking stuff, like Daytona boots, their own brand is impressive, just at a quick inspection its clearly really hard wearing leather and nicely put together. A nice retro number ( a little like this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hideout-leather.co.uk\/hideout-mens-leather-brando-jacket\">http:\/\/www.hideout-leather.co.uk\/hideout-mens-leather-brando-jacket<\/a> but with a belt) starts at \u00a3700, so not cheap but it would last a lifetime. Its tempting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a bit of a gap I went on another observed ride in preparation for the IAM motorcycle test and on a rare sunny day. The starting point was the ever popular McDonald&#8217;s Sawston (I can&#8217;t understand why anyone would drive out there for a hamburger). About 50 miles of riding included dropping off at&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/a-little-discovery-in-essex\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A little discovery in Essex<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","tag-motorcycle-clothing-hideout-leather-essex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}