{"id":583,"date":"2009-08-18T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obliquepanic.net\/?p=583"},"modified":"2009-08-18T14:00:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T20:00:32","slug":"the-company-of-bmw-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-company-of-bmw-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"The company of BMW owners*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In that liminal space between parting with the money and owning, and with some time on my hands, I browse the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukgser.com\/forums\/forumdisplay.php?f=14\">UKGSers website<\/a>. There are all kinds of useful threads there, including: where to stick your GPS. But there is a strange downbeat feel to some of them and I wonder if it reflects the character of BM owners. One of the most depressing is the &#8221; I&#8217;ve had pain and tension in my right arm and shoulder since riding the GSA. I think it is to do with feeling tense about having spent so much money on it&#8230;.&#8221; Then there is the chorus of folk swearing by spending out on the extended warranty listing the \u00a31000s of repair bills, remarking that Japanese manufacturers don&#8217;t even offer extended warranty as their products are so reliable that no one would buy it. Then there&#8217;s the &#8216;brake-failure&#8217; thread&#8230;<br \/>\n* Its an interesting slip of the keyboard that I wrote &#8216;owners&#8217; rather than &#8216;riders&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In that liminal space between parting with the money and owning, and with some time on my hands, I browse the UKGSers website. There are all kinds of useful threads there, including: where to stick your GPS. But there is a strange downbeat feel to some of them and I wonder if it reflects the&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-company-of-bmw-owners\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The company of BMW owners*<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-motorcycles-panic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}