{"id":302,"date":"2008-06-18T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T20:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.no-ip.com\/wordpress\/?p=302"},"modified":"2008-06-18T21:22:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T20:22:26","slug":"six-weeks-of-triumph-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/six-weeks-of-triumph-sprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Six weeks of Triumph Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its coming up to six weeks of Triumph Sprint experience. This bike is such a pleasure to ride. I don&#8217;t remember feeling exactly the same about riding a Bandit. This evening, for example, I had an excuse to ride out of Cambridge for a few miles, with some windy A roads and a short blast on a dual carriageway. The weather wasn&#8217;t fantastic but a pleasant summer evening &#8211; rather overcast in fact &#8211; but I remember feeling that I didn&#8217;t want the ride to ever stop. Slowly I am gaining confidence in handling a motorbike and enjoying preparing for corners (though one or two arrived quickly and turned out to be very sharp) finding a line, crouching down, trying to keep up speed. Even driving along at 45 behind traffic is enjoyable. Last weekend I took it up to the North Norfolk coast up the often-impossible-to-pass-on A10.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/obliquepanic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bike-in-norfolk.jpg' title='bike-in-norfolk.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/obliquepanic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bike-in-norfolk.jpg' alt='bike-in-norfolk.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe bike is very happy to go along slowly but demonstrated that once I&#8217;ve decided there is ample safety to overtake, it rockets past anything and can keep going at 80 or 85 very nicely. The Bandit was always revving too quickly and I was forever searching for another gear. I&#8217;ve done just over 400 miles in 5 1\/2 weeks. I had the Bandit 8 months and only managed 500 miles on it. The next challenge is to book my ferry ticket to Hook of Holland &#8211; and get some more luggage for it.<a href='http:\/\/obliquepanic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bike-by-shack.jpg' title='bike-by-shack.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/obliquepanic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bike-by-shack.jpg' alt='bike-by-shack.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its coming up to six weeks of Triumph Sprint experience. This bike is such a pleasure to ride. I don&#8217;t remember feeling exactly the same about riding a Bandit. This evening, for example, I had an excuse to ride out of Cambridge for a few miles, with some windy A roads and a short blast&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/six-weeks-of-triumph-sprint\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six weeks of Triumph Sprint<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}