{"id":1243,"date":"2013-01-07T12:17:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeme.tv\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2013-09-27T16:32:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T06:32:29","slug":"hindsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/hindsight\/","title":{"rendered":"HINDSIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just came back from a couple of days camping at my brother Ben’s new place out west. I took a battery with me, and we got his old Yamaha XT225 going.<\/p>\n

I took it for a test ride and rounded up some goats, did some hill work on one of the dam walls, and did a couple of circuits of the fence line of the front paddock.<\/p>\n

“I reckon it needs three things to improve it”, I said to Ben after this. “Get rid of the mirrors, get rid of that keyring thing that makes a noise every time it hits a bump, and put the standard countershaft sprocket back on.”<\/p>\n

An hour later, Ben said “I’ve removed the mirrors from the XT.”<\/p>\n

“It will be better”, I said. “Take it for a test ride.”<\/p>\n

“I have”, Ben said.<\/p>\n

“And?” I asked.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t looked back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I reckon it needs three things to improve it”, I said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}