{"id":63,"date":"2007-07-12T17:24:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T16:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.no-ip.com\/wordpress\/?p=63"},"modified":"2007-07-12T17:24:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T16:24:49","slug":"more-on-motorcycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/more-on-motorcycling\/","title":{"rendered":"more on motorcycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a full bike license in the UK involves various stages now. I remember when, if you had a car license, you could ride a 250cc machine as long as you had L plates. Not any more. Last Sunday I did a day long CBT (compulsory basic training) on a 125 bike at Cambridge&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camrider.com\">CAMRider<\/a>. It involves some classroom teaching followed by trying out the bike on their site, starting up, going around cones, practising slow speed manoevering etc. A morning is exhausting enough, then after lunch they lead you out onto the road. Its nerve-wracking! We drove, not just around the lanes of the quiet village where CAMrider is sited, but straight into the middle of Cambridge. Yikes! All with the teacher giving instructions into a earpiece. At the end I got the CBT certificate and an aching body and ringing ears for days after. Next week I do another 1\/2 day which includes an introduction to riding a 500cc machine. Its a heady mixture of excitement and fear &#8211; mostly fear. Now I have some more padded trousers &#8211; I fell off on sunday onto a grass verge luckily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a full bike license in the UK involves various stages now. I remember when, if you had a car license, you could ride a 250cc machine as long as you had L plates. Not any more. Last Sunday I did a day long CBT (compulsory basic training) on a 125 bike at Cambridge&#8217;s CAMRider.&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/more-on-motorcycling\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">more on motorcycling<\/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":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-quiet-desperation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}